JUST REVEALED: Chilling Final Conversation Between Black Hawk Pilots Before Fatal DC Crash

Details continue to emerge about the chaotic final seconds before a Black Hawk helicopter collided with a commercial jet over the skies of Washington, D.C. back in January.

The collision, which killed all 67 passengers on both aircrafts, took place moments after U.S. Army helicopter pilot Capt. Rebecca Lobach communicated with her instructor, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Eaves, who was also on board.

Lobach, 28, was heard on a black box recording speaking with Eaves, 39, while errantly crossing paths with American Airlines Flight 5342 on its way to Wichita, Kan.. The plane carried a number of talented young figure skaters as well as their coaches and parents as they returned home from a local competition.

The recording was released to the National Transportation Safety Board along with thousands of documents as part of its probe into the cause of the accident and how Lobach failed to notice the passenger jet while returning her three-person crew back to base at Fort Belvoir in Virginia.

NTSB standards required the Army helicopter to fly no higher than 200 feet near the city’s airport, but flight records show that the aircraft hovered between the mid-200s and 300 feet for extended durations as it approached Reagan National Airport.

Some communications by Lobach show she incorrectly stated that the helicopter was 100 feet lower in the sky than it actually was.

In one of the final messages, recorded about three minutes before impact, Lobach was asked by her instructor to “come down for me” and reduce the altitude to 200 feet from its current 300 feet, according to a recent NTSB presentation.

The presentation also shows that air traffic control twice warned Lobach to lower the helicopter’s altitude, once about two minutes before the crash and again 90 seconds prior to impact. Both times, the crew replied, asking controllers to confirm “visual separation” from the commercial plane and asking for permission to fly around it.

Five seconds after the second warning, Eaves can be heard telling her junior pilot, “Alright, kinda come left for me ma’am, I think that’s why he’s asking,” to which she replied, “Sure,” the presentation shows.

Eaves then said, “We’re kinda out towards the middle,” and Lobach said, “Okay fine.”

The four-second exchange occurred while the helicopter sat 270 feet in the air. Directly ahead, the American Airlines jet was heading toward them at a height of 320 feet.

At 8:48 p.m., a final transmission could be heard: “ohhhh, ohhhh,” screamed someone on board the Black Hawk.

The NTSB hearing will continue this week, according to People.

“This hearing is a critical part of our ongoing investigation,” NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said in her opening remarks on Wednesday.

Turning to families of those lost in the crash, she said, “Please know that we are working diligently to make sure we know what occurred, how it occurred, and to prevent it from ever happening again.”