It appears as if the air traffic controller at Reagan National Airport made the wrong decision Wednesday, aviation attorney and former pilot Arthur Rosenberg told Newsmax on Friday.

American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with an Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., sending the two aircraft into the Potomac River and killing all 67 aboard in the deadliest U.S. air crash in more than two decades.

“Accidents like this never happen for any one particular cause,” Rosenberg said on “Newsline.” “The American Airlines flight was vectored from the original runway, runway 1 to the shorter runway 33. That brought them farther north. That brought them more into the path of the oncoming Black Hawk helicopter.

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