Media told about the pilot controlling the helicopter at the time of the helicopter crash in the U.S.

The military helicopter that collided with a passenger plane in Washington, D.C., was piloted by a female pilot with more than 500 hours of flight experience. This was reported on January 31 by Jonathan Koziol, Chief of Staff of the General Department of Army Aviation.

He added that an instructor and crew chief were also aboard the helicopter. According to Koziol, the crew had considerable experience. For example, the instructor pilot's experience exceeded 1,000 hours, while the commander had several hundred hours of flight time.

"Both pilots had flown this particular route before at night. This was nothing new for either of them," ABC News quoted him as saying.

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On the night of Jan. 30, an American Airlines passenger jet and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. They fell into the Potomac River after the crash. There were 60 passengers and four crew members aboard the plane. According to the latest data, more than 40 bodies of the victims were extracted from the river.

US President Donald Trump reported the absence of survivors in the airplane crash in Washington. He called the crash terrible and said the tragedy could have been avoided if the control tower had told the helicopter crew to change course.

CNN reported the day before that one of the flight recorders (black boxes) of the crashed passenger plane had been recovered from the Potomac River.