A significant issue may have stemmed from the military Blackhawk helicopter involved in the collision - the lack of the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) in military helicopters.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said both aircraft had been flying standard flight patterns when the incident occurred, and there had been no breakdown in communication.
The aircraft were flying too low for systems to generate voice commands to guide crews.
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The crane truck driver was uninjured. The Cochrane RCMP along with Fire and EMS responded to the collision shortly before 7:30 a.m. Traffic was diverted around the collision for much of the day to ...