WTF Air Force jet close call over DCA at 890 feet and 350 mph

[Anonymous]

Maybe Hegseth should have given these flight details to the control tower over Signal?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/delta-military-jet-close-call-dca/index.html

[Anonymous]

WTF

[Anonymous]

I’m beginning to think the military pilots are just bad.

Both of the recent incidents involved the military.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m beginning to think the military pilots are just bad.

Both of the recent incidents involved the military.

Think about who enrolls in the military for a minute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m beginning to think the military pilots are just bad.

Both of the recent incidents involved the military.

Think about who enrolls in the military for a minute.

You mean men and women who are brave enough to risk their lives for our safety and freedom?

[Anonymous]

Early rumor/idea from airliners.net online discussion:

"I'm under the impression it was for a funeral fly-by at Arlington Cemetary - when I worked in Crystal City, we'd see them at least once a week."

If that's the case, why didn't ATC note the traffic for other planes? And frankly why are they doing something like this now? At those speeds and altitude you have zero ability to recover if something goes wrong- which is exactly why they have separation rules the way they do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m beginning to think the military pilots are just bad.

Both of the recent incidents involved the military.

???
Most commercial airplane pilots are former military.

[Anonymous]

DOGE needs to shut down these military honor flights ASAP. Veterans should be honored in other ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m beginning to think the military pilots are just bad.

Both of the recent incidents involved the military.

Think about who enrolls in the military for a minute.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

[Anonymous]

It is an ATC issue. They failed to hold commercial traffic for a pre-scheduled Arlington flyover. Good thing we are haphazardly slashing the federal workforce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Early rumor/idea from airliners.net online discussion:

"I'm under the impression it was for a funeral fly-by at Arlington Cemetary - when I worked in Crystal City, we'd see them at least once a week."

If that's the case, why didn't ATC note the traffic for other planes? And frankly why are they doing something like this now? At those speeds and altitude you have zero ability to recover if something goes wrong- which is exactly why they have separation rules the way they do.

That's not early, rumor, or inside information, it's in the article.

[Anonymous]

Its time to close that airport down until they get it together. More lives will be lost if they don't clearly there having to many issues to operate safely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Early rumor/idea from airliners.net online discussion:

"I'm under the impression it was for a funeral fly-by at Arlington Cemetary - when I worked in Crystal City, we'd see them at least once a week."

If that's the case, why didn't ATC note the traffic for other planes? And frankly why are they doing something like this now? At those speeds and altitude you have zero ability to recover if something goes wrong- which is exactly why they have separation rules the way they do.

That's not early, rumor, or inside information, it's in the article.

Ha OP here, that info was added this morning to the article. Didn't go back and look at it again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m beginning to think the military pilots are just bad.

Both of the recent incidents involved the military.

Think about who enrolls in the military for a minute.

Well pilots are Officers, who are usually pretty bright and have college degrees. That’s not to say there aren’t plenty of smart enlisted personnel too. As mentioned in another comment, most commercial pilots are former military. Guess you’re done flying?

[Anonymous]

No more military training or “flyovers” near DCA period. Essential transport of POTUS and VPOTUS only. Hopefully those pilots can manage not to crash. Secdef can go around. So can HHS, State, CIA, etc.

F that $hit.