Anonymous wrote:The helicopter pilot said he saw the other aircraft that the tower was warning him about. It was likely a different plane.
Coming from a right angle, the plane is not well lit, and the lights would blend into the city lights.

Anonymous wrote:Besides the distraction of Trump’s finger pointing.

Has Trump or Hegseth said anything about what the US government, in particular the military, is doing right now to prevent another such catastrophe?

Trump and Hegseth are in charge. What are they doing?

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Anonymous wrote:How would you even prove this? Like if the pilot was Hispanic or gay or female, would he see proof that he was right??

They turned down over a 1,000 white men.

THEY WERE NOT QUALIFIED.

There are hundreds of seats that need to be filled, but you cannot fill an ATC seat with someone who isn't qualified without causing harm to the air traffic system and safety in our country.

Well right now most ATC are not qualified to be in their job. Air travel is not safe. Trump better get on this and remove non white ATC now or shut down air travel.

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Anonymous wrote:Sam Lilley graduated in 2018 with a degree in marketing but decided to become a pilot. He had earlier graduated from Richmond Hill High School, just south of Savannah, Georgia, where he had been an active member of Coastal Community Christian Church.

His father: “This is undoubtedly the worst day of my life,” said Timothy Lilley, who also is a longtime pilot and served as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot for 20 years, noting he flew similar routes in and out of the Pentagon.

Ryan O’Hara was one of three soldiers aboard the Black Hawk helicopter.

“Ryan was just the most committed, disciplined person I remember working with,” said Josh Muehlendorf, a senior instructor pilot in the U.S. Army. “He had such great integrity.”

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said on the social platform X that the state was mourning the death of Andrew Eaves, who was also aboard the Army helicopter.

Eaves was from the small town of Brooksville in eastern Mississippi, Reeves said.
Reaves was apparently the pilot:
As per reports, Eaves was the Chief Warrant Office 2 of Mississippi. He grew up in the Brooksville and graduated from Central Academy. He said to be with Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion out of Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
"Andrew was a kind, loving, fun-loving and patriotic man," Eaves' family said in a statement. "He loved his wife and kids fiercely and would have done anything to take care of them. He was a great son and loved his mom and brother dearly. He was an absolute joy to be around and would light up every room he entered, and was always the life of the party. He was a true all-American hero, and will be deeply missed by anyone lucky enough to have known him."

From AP, Economic Times, and WAPT, an ABC affiliate in Jackson.

Deranged MAGAs on X were trying to claim the pilot was "a DEI hire" and "a transwoman" - yet the pilot was straight, white, male and married.

MAGAs are out of control with their incessant lying. MAGAs suck.

We still don’t know who the helicopter pilot was. We only have two names from the helicopter.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would you even prove this? Like if the pilot was Hispanic or gay or female, would he see proof that he was right??

They turned down over a 1,000 white men.

THEY WERE NOT QUALIFIED.

There are hundreds of seats that need to be filled, but you cannot fill an ATC seat with someone who isn't qualified without causing harm to the air traffic system and safety in our country.

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Anonymous wrote:How would you even prove this? Like if the pilot was Hispanic or gay or female, would he see proof that he was right??

They turned down over a 1,000 white men.

Anonymous wrote:Both sides in this debate are engaging in political attacks instead of admitting and focussing on the true cause of the crash- a tragic accident that, was obscenely preventable, had Air Traffic controllers who have been turning whistleblower for YEARS about under staffing had been listened to.

This Front Page NYT article bringing Air Traffic Controller's concerns to front page for all Americans to READ was published about a YEAR before the accident: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/business/air-traffic-controllers-safety.html

DEI preferences is not the reason that the USA is short about 50,000 trained pilots as well as tens of thousands of Air Traffic controllers- we simply do not train , recruit and retain enough to meet demand.

Corporate GREED in the Airline industry is another factor: pay your pilots well and you retain the best and then the best train the new hires.

America has allowed itself, courtesy of our corrupt Congress, to short shift every aspect of our bridges, ports, and air traffic all the while caving to corporate demands. Just look at the disaster at Bowing- because they sidelined their Engineers.

Fix that and stop Bickering with each other

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Anonymous wrote:How would you even prove this? Like if the pilot was Hispanic or gay or female, would he see proof that he was right??

They turned down over a 1,000 white men.

Anonymous wrote:How would you even prove this? Like if the pilot was Hispanic or gay or female, would he see proof that he was right??

Anonymous wrote:Both sides in this debate are engaging in political attacks instead of admitting and focussing on the true cause of the crash- a tragic accident that, was obscenely preventable, had Air Traffic controllers who have been turning whistleblower for YEARS about under staffing had been listened to.

This Front Page NYT article bringing Air Traffic Controller's concerns to front page for all Americans to READ was published about a YEAR before the accident: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/business/air-traffic-controllers-safety.html

DEI preferences is not the reason that the USA is short about 50,000 trained pilots as well as tens of thousands of Air Traffic controllers- we simply do not train , recruit and retain enough to meet demand.

Corporate GREED in the Airline industry is another factor: pay your pilots well and you retain the best and then the best train the new hires.

America has allowed itself, courtesy of our corrupt Congress, to short shift every aspect of our bridges, ports, and air traffic all the while caving to corporate demands. Just look at the disaster at Bowing- because they sidelined their Engineers.

Fix that and stop Bickering with each other

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sam Lilley graduated in 2018 with a degree in marketing but decided to become a pilot. He had earlier graduated from Richmond Hill High School, just south of Savannah, Georgia, where he had been an active member of Coastal Community Christian Church.

His father: “This is undoubtedly the worst day of my life,” said Timothy Lilley, who also is a longtime pilot and served as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot for 20 years, noting he flew similar routes in and out of the Pentagon.

Ryan O’Hara was one of three soldiers aboard the Black Hawk helicopter.

“Ryan was just the most committed, disciplined person I remember working with,” said Josh Muehlendorf, a senior instructor pilot in the U.S. Army. “He had such great integrity.”

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said on the social platform X that the state was mourning the death of Andrew Eaves, who was also aboard the Army helicopter.

Eaves was from the small town of Brooksville in eastern Mississippi, Reeves said.
Reaves was apparently the pilot:
As per reports, Eaves was the Chief Warrant Office 2 of Mississippi. He grew up in the Brooksville and graduated from Central Academy. He said to be with Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion out of Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
"Andrew was a kind, loving, fun-loving and patriotic man," Eaves' family said in a statement. "He loved his wife and kids fiercely and would have done anything to take care of them. He was a great son and loved his mom and brother dearly. He was an absolute joy to be around and would light up every room he entered, and was always the life of the party. He was a true all-American hero, and will be deeply missed by anyone lucky enough to have known him."

From AP, Economic Times, and WAPT, an ABC affiliate in Jackson.

Deranged MAGAs on X were trying to claim the pilot was "a DEI hire" and "a transwoman" - yet the pilot was straight, white, male and married.

MAGAs are out of control with their incessant lying. MAGAs suck.

We still don’t know who the helicopter pilot was. We only have two names from the helicopter.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Besides the distraction of Trump’s finger pointing.

Has Trump or Hegseth said anything about what the US government, in particular the military, is doing right now to prevent another such catastrophe?

Trump and Hegseth are in charge. What are they doing?