DC Crash Update - NTSB review of Recovered Blackhawk Data

Here is a video dated today of an NTSB presentation of recovered voice data and instrument data from the Blackhawk helicopter.

NTSB Media Briefing 4 - PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 & Sikorsky H-60 military helicopter collision

A more thorough video is here:

NTSB to give updates into investigation of DCA plane-helicopter crash

Although this doesn't resolve the helicopter altitude discrepancy it does indicate that it was quite likely much closer to 300 feet altitude than 200 feet. Data from the airliner shows the pilots making a strong pitch-up and an eleven-degree bank to the left. This seems to indicate that the airliner pilots attempted to move up and away from the helicopter. From what I heard here, it doesn't appear that the helicopter took evasive action. If anything, it made a slight correction to the left, towards the airliner.

What gets me is that every move the helicopter made is what it would have needed to make had it been the intent to deliberately ram the airliner. Even though this seems impossible, what it does mean to me is this. Had it been intentional there would have been nothing anybody other than the helicopter pilot herself could have done to stop her. Even if it wasn't intentional, this shows that there was nothing that could be done by anybody other than the helicopter pilot.

Nobody other than her failed.

But that's just my personal opinion. If you have to pin the blame somewhere, pin it on her.