Plane crash DCA?

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Anonymous wrote:Can any of you POS's trying to spread fake news about the identity of a dead helicopter imagine the pain and trauma you may be inflicting on this person's family? Wtaf is wrong with some of you people?

Republicans are psychopaths.

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After hearing the NTSB chair talk for three minutes, I have more confidence in her than Trump or any of his Cabinet nominees.

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Anonymous wrote:We had Obama, Biden, and lots of DEI…and zero crashes

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- and trump’s people have not been confirmed yet, so these were Biden folks.

For the umpteenth time, the head of the FAA resigned on January 20, as demanded by oligarch Elon Musk.

Wait - the head of the FAA was the pilot? Or was t-rump’s new faa head one of the ATCs in the tower?

Or were Biden-hirees on the job last night?

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Anonymous wrote:So if 2 out of 3 in the helicopter were white males - does that mean we get to boot out all while males for incompetence?

No, if they are white males, it's a tragic accident. If it's a female or person of color, they're incompetent DEI hires. Are we going to start doing this for car accident news too? Blaming the drivers if they're black or female? There are a lot more car accidents than plane accidents.

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Anonymous wrote:According to Reuters, it was a fairly experienced crew on the helocopter but they were at the wrong altitude.

They were wearing night vision goggles and doing a training flight.

Right before the crash they confirmed they had the jet in sight - they must have been looking at the wrong plane? or else the night goggles impaired their peripheral vision and they couldn't see all the bright lights on the jet they were flying directly into?

There were multiple planes in the air, it seems likely that their visual focus was on another plane.

If this is in fact what happened (a plausible theory IMO) then it begs the question is whose fault was it that the Helo was looking at the wrong plane. To me this is the 64k question.

This was the theory last night but it seems more clear now that the helicopter knew which plane to look for and didn't get mixed up about a different plane.

Better questions are, why was the helicopter at the wrong altitude? Did they mis-estimate the intersection of the plane's path and theirs, as distance can be confusing at those speeds, altitudes, and at night? Did something malfunction, was the pilot distracted, etc.?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm seeing that one of the helo pilots was a woman, but nothing I see says she was black.

Where is the source saying the pilot was a black woman?

Who cares this is irrelevant. You're falling into their trap. This isn't relevant at all.

Correct, their resume and experience and education and training is what’s relevant. Same as doctors and anyone else. Merit.

Does this also apply to SecDefs?

No. It’s ok if you’re a white male.

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Anonymous wrote:Pilot was Ryan Ohara from Atlanta

No, he was a passenger.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that the NSA is giving press interviews in front of the white house regarding the incident says a lot about the unspoken mission of the helicopter. Not the SecDef, not some Army general. The NSA.

SecDef is probably too drunk to speak publicly.

Or busy bothering his female assistants.

Or abusing his wife.

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Anonymous wrote:I would like to hear the DoD say they are suspending all non-essential helicopter flights in the DC area pending an investigation. They won't, but they should.

Given this incident, there is no reason for DoD to be using airspace around DC for ordinary transport (that could easily and efficiently be done by car) or for training.

They won't do this though because it would raise the question of whether it was irresponsible to be using helicopters so extensively for these non-essential purposes in the first place.

I would like to hear this, too. The Air Force base on one side of the river, very busy DCA on the other side - there is no room for error and it’s unbelievable air traffic controllers are supposed to handle landing a plane every two minutes in this tight airspace, even if they didn’t have to watch out for military helicopters!

And again this was an annual recertification training flight for the helicopter. The AF base is right there.

This was nothing to do with the base at Bolling. The Helo flight was from Langley (VA) to Ft. Belvoir (VA.) It was flying neither to nor from Bolling.

So why was it in this area to begin with?

Most of DC is a no fly zone so you fly over the river.

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Anonymous wrote:So if 2 out of 3 in the helicopter were white males - does that mean we get to boot out all while males for incompetence?

No, if they are white males, it's a tragic accident. If it's a female or person of color, they're incompetent DEI hires. Are we going to start doing this for car accident news too? Blaming the drivers if they're black or female? There are a lot more car accidents than plane accidents.

Men already do that too.

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Anonymous wrote:Pilot was Ryan Ohara from Atlanta

No, he was the crew chief on the helicopter. There were two pilots: one with 1000 hours of training and the other with 500 hours of training. Supposedly they had flown this route several times.

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Anonymous wrote:I read multiple comments on Fox News and 80% say that Trump should not have said anything other than offering condolences, this is not even sitting right with his base.

yeah, he really lets loose on Q&A.

they should give some down downers or lexapro or something. plus more botox.

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“May you have the confidence of a mediocre white man.”

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Anonymous wrote:After hearing the NTSB chair talk for three minutes, I have more confidence in her than Trump or any of his Cabinet nominees.

She has taken 20 minutes to say I’m not telling you anything today.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that the NSA is giving press interviews in front of the white house regarding the incident says a lot about the unspoken mission of the helicopter. Not the SecDef, not some Army general. The NSA.

SecDef is probably too drunk to speak publicly.

Or busy bothering his female assistants.

Or abusing his wife.

Or screwing passed out women.