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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NTSB report confirmed heli was flying too high, why are we still discussing this?[/quote]

I agree. To me the only question that remains is are we looking at [b]malicious intent or gross incompetence.[/b] My money is on the latter. [/quote]

Or [b]something mechanical.[/b] These are really the only three viable possibilities at this time- but agree it looks like gross incompetence. Blaming Trump, Musk, some VIP, FAA is all wild and delusional[/quote]

Or something medical with the BH pilots. Hence waiting for the reports.[/quote]

I don’t think we would ever know if it was a medical event.  I can’t imagine there is enough of the remains left to do an autopsy. And if it was something like a seizure that wouldn’t show on an autopsy anyway.  
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If they have audio from the helicopter right before the crash, it could potentially have info that help identify that as a possible explanation. Or some of the recordings of instruments.

If it was a medical event, I don't know that we'll ever know definitively, but it could wind up as a possible explanation, for whatever that might be worth to the families of survivors. I think the only people who would be comforted by that possibly are the families of the helicopter crew as it might absolve their loved ones of guilt. But for families of the victims on the plane, I am not sure there's a huge difference between the crash resulting from a pilot having a stroke and steering into the plane, versus losing sight of the plane or having identified the wrong plane and not seeing it until it was too late.

No matter what, I think ultimately the culpability is going to lie with decision makers who made it possible for something like that to result in a collision. Helicopters should never be close enough to planes landing at National that some kind of normal human error (losing a plane's lights in the traffic of cars coming up the road, or having an uncontrolled medical event) will cause them to collide. That's ultimately the lesson here and I don't know that [b]the final NTSB report[/b] is going to change that. This was a preventable tragedy that people actually warned about because it's almost happened many times before. They should never have been so close.[/quote]

In the before times, I would have expected that the report would have some impact on policies, but we are in MAGApocalypse so I doubt that anything will happen. 
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