Plane crash DCA?
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Anonymous
I guess people will have to drive to Kansas on unpaved roads. Elections have consequences. |
Anonymous
| Daniel Driscoll, President Trump’s pick for secretary of the Army, said on Thursday that the Army might need to end flight training near congested urban airports like Reagan National Airport. Driscoll, speaking at a Senate Armed Services hearing to consider his nomination, said the Army would need to look at “where is an appropriate time to take training risk, and it may not be near an airport like Reagan.” |
Anonymous
INDIVIDUAL CHOICES |
Anonymous
Maybe in the before times. Now in the MAGAcalypse all bets are off. |
Anonymous
So, the pilots saw the collision?? |
Anonymous
+1 million |
Anonymous
If true it's really hard to understand how they don't see the airplane right in front of them, both on radar and visually. Like I understand what this guy is saying and I assume he knows more than I do about what it's like in the air, but when you look at the radar and see the video footage, it's hard to make sense of because the plane is *right there.* What is the reason they might not be looking at radar to see the closer plane? There are two pilots and a crew chief on the helicopter. Surely one of them would be in charge of checking radar especially while flying through that particular corridor knowing there will be planes taking off and landing from National. I don't get it. It also raises the question of whether the night vision goggles they were wearing for training purposes obscured their vision to the degree that it made it more likely they would not see the closer jet and would think the area closer to them was clear. If that's the case, I'm sorry, but this is 100% on the DoD for permitting that kind of training flight near a very busy urban airport. Like completely unacceptable. I understand why an Army pilot would need training with night vision goggles but there is no reason why that should be done in an area where it could jeopardize civilian lives in that way. So if this is the explanation, it honestly raises more questions than it answers. IMO. |
Anonymous
Yes. Please take military pilot training and certification flights further away from DCA. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
The orange fruit does not care. He just wants to bring politics into everything, purge the civil servants, and put his lap dogs in place. If people are left without, or die along the way, it is just the cost of doing his regime change. |
Anonymous
Normally they would not be doing this. But people are taking their cues from Trump shooting off his mouth and blaming all the dead people. |
Anonymous
What about the helicopters radar screen? CRJ Wichita would have been on that screen. Does “visual separation” mean you stop looking at your nav’s and just guess at what planes are out there, how fast, how high, what direction they are going? |
Anonymous
Doubtful. The government has immunity and it doesn't look like American or the ATCs did anything wrong. |
Anonymous
Nice explanation of the tower and ground control comms, but has some blind spots on the helo flying. |
Anonymous
Maybe for some. But there are nutty conspiracy theorists on DCUM who do this for every single tragedy. It’s gross. |