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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would anyone hate her? There is no indication that this was intentional.  [/quote]

Because their wife and only child died because of either her deliberate act or gross incompetence?[/quote]

There is no indication of either of those.

Why are you jumping to conclusions without any evidence? 
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We don't know who in the helo was responsible, but we do know they acted recklessly.[/quote]

We don't know anything until the investigation is over. 
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Said elites who don't want to answer to the people everywhere and at all times.  NTSB released collision height of 325feet plus minus 25 feet based on black box data.  Helicopter fleight ceiling was 200 feet.  Helicopter appears to have gained 100 feet of altitude into the jet in the final seconds.    Know plenty.  Would know enough if we get blackhawk cockpit voice data.  Why haven't they released it?[/quote]

Any system that is relying on visual confirmation to maintain 125 feet of separation between fast moving helicopters and aircraft on final approach at night is already a colossal failure. It was only a matter of time until a catastrophic accident occurred. As for who is at fault? Probably Congress for overloading Reagan with too many flights - Reagan has the busiest runway in the country - and for insisting that the Army shepherd VIPs through this incredibly complex air space. Also for not staffing ATC sufficiently. The helicopter and the aircraft should have had separate ATC controllers. But the overall flying environment has been unsafe for ages. Any system that relies on 125 feet separation is doomed to catastrophe. 125 feet is nothing when aircraft are moving at speed in limited visibility conditions.   [/quote]

ATC did fine he notified helicopter of the location, bearing and direction of the jet.  Male pilot in helicopter confirmed.  You could argue he should have picked up the collision course helicopter was running as that was like 25 seconds, and he only cottoned onto it in the last 10 secs or so.  He warns them again, male helicopter pilot confirms visual sighting of jet.  This implies he confirmed he would avoid it.  Helicopter rose 100 feet into crash into jet.

Yes, silly and dangerous to have helicopters running a 100-200 feet under landing planes - I'm not sure that was what was happening.  It happened in this case because the helicopter kept a bearing directly into the plane.  It could have done lots of things. hovered, deviated left, not elevated 100 feet suddenly.  It's all very weird.  Yes, it's obviously generally dangerous anyway to be clustering these military jets across these civil jet flight corridors.  It makes me think White House and similar critical locations don't have bunkers - this is a big problem, what you want is a bunker in the presidential residence, beneath congress, etc., and underground tunnel and train to take you out of doge city.  Plenty of other countries have something like this.  Having rotary wing aircraft zapping the nation's brains around in the middle of a nuclear war sounds stupid.[/quote]

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