A number of pilots seem to think differently, and do wonder why 3 different planes/choppers were in the same airspace. I provided one of those links. But I think pure common sense is all that is required to see a problem with the flight paths, and the audio is the cherry on top. They ask if the Helicopter has a visual but do not clearly designate which plane, they do not folloup with any directions although tehy can clearly see at the very least it's about to be a close call. Pretty sure when all is said and done there will be issues taken with how ATC managed the flight paths. The Pilot of Helicopter likely will be ruled to have made a mistake. (Regardless of how that makes people feel.) There's 3 possibilities Pilot Error, ATC Error, Mechanical Error. No one seems to think there was mechanical error. Investigation will find errors and mistakes by either Pilot ot ATC... and likely both. As for the ATC angle.....there's report ATC was already working basically two jobs. So staffing and logistics will play a part. Both the effects of DEI, and Covid amandate absolutely do deserve scrutiny as to the effect they had. As a smart person observed, " This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented." It should have.
