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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It has been confirmed that the helicopter crew was wearing night vision goggles.

This is likely to play a role in what they did and did not see. Night vision goggles can greatly reduce your overall vision. I also question whether it is possible to properly read your radar with them on.

One aspect of the investigation should look into why a helicopter training flight was cleared to use night vision goggles in an area with so much air traffic. The seems like an accident waiting to happen.[/quote]

Confirmed by whom? All I heard in the release was the goggles were on board but they couldn’t confirm if they were in use. [/quote]

Hmm, this is odd. Hegseth stated it in is statement this morning, and earlier Washington Post had it listed in their "what we know" page on the crash (in fact I think it said that the training flight was specifically to train for flying with night vision goggles on), but it has since been removed from that page.

Odd that this would be reported for several hours and then suddenly change without an announcement of why (like maybe the pilots did not have the goggles on when they recovered them). Perhaps simply the result of info being reported as it's available but this could be a critical issue.[/quote]

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