Summary
An American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair near Reagan National Airport, killing at least 18 people.
Trump initially expressed condolences but later questioned why the air traffic control tower or helicopter pilot didn’t prevent the crash.
The FAA identified the plane as a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700.
A Kennedy Center webcam captured the collision, and investigations are ongoing.
CNN’s Pete Muntean called the incident stunning, noting its proximity to a military base.
Such a shame it wasn’t AF1.
First of all, fuck you. Never wish a crash on anybody. Lives were lost.
Secondly, I believe AF1 carries an additional TFR to prevent that (although I’m not familiar with the SFRA)
TFR doesn’t really mean shit if you can navigate a small drone into the flight path of the plane
Fair, but as apolitical as possible, I find it hard to believe that any escorts wouldn’t take out the drone if POTUS is on board. Regardless of who that may be
no, fuck you and af1
Nah, fuck you.
Regardless of if President Doofus were involved in the crash or not, we would have lost helicopter pilots OR people on a civilian aircraft.
If you think helicopter pilots or civilians dying is okay, you are a terrible human being.
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Okay call me a terrible human being I’m not gonna be shedding too many tears over the death of any member of the US army.
Eh, I do feel bad about it.
The military as an organization sucks, but not everyone in it is the “just following orders” SS type of goon. For a lot of people, especially from underserved communities of color, it is one of the only available routes out of poverty when education and job opportunities are inaccessible.
This is by design, I have to imagine, to ensure the US military always has a steady stream of warm bodied volunteers. And they get people young, too, setting up recruiters in high schools to recruit teenagers who have no idea what they’re signing up for and are told they have no better options.
You are a terrible human being.
Thanks.
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There are ways to discontinue the fascist line without needing to sacrifice so many other lives.
And fuck Trump.
it did happen. it could have happened to somebody better.
Like I said in another comment, you can end the fascist line without innocent lives if you are going to rewind history.
And the author of the time line should probably put Die Fuhrer Musk into the mix.
Very true, just look at Hitler and Mussolini, famously defeated by strongly worded letters and no bloodshed
I was thinking more like a certain a super Mario brother
A shame, really
I mean, we all know already that the control tower DID tell the helicopter what to do. How come HE doesn’t know that?
Maybe don’t have training flights at night into one of the most congested airports in the country?
I dont know how often they run there but I wouldnt be surprised if the cheeto said he wanted all kinds of mil practice in the area after he couldnt have a huge mil parade where he waived at them in the last term, but this is just me jumping to conclusions.
Ok, I’m sure it’s because of incompetence but I do have to say it’s weird AF that there was also a contingent of Russian civilians on the plane and that this involved a military helicopter. Granted, they were figure skaters, but my brain was like “Man, Putin must really hate those figure skaters” when I heard about this over the radio.
But again, it’s likely incompetence— even if you have to be at just the right altitude at just the wrong time to cause a mid air crash.
The questions he’s asking aren’t wrong to ask. The real problem, IMO, is that he’s the president and can’t simply post those questions publicly. He’s an idiot, though, so this is what we get.
But seriously, he also asks why the Black Hawk pilot didn’t do ANYTHING to avoid a known flight path and I’ve asked the same thing.
Why was the army running a night flight training mission in DC?
Such a crowded airspace and I’m sure the military didn’t coordinate their flight plans with the local air traffic control.
Sadly the conspiracy theorist in me asks “who was on that plane that had a hit out out against them?” Latest was saying there were Russian figure skaters on board.
I hate that my mind goes there but with this freaking administration, anything is possible.
It’s a valid question, but I just watched a press conference where somebody explained that these aren’t rookie pilots but pilots looking to log the proper amount of flight hours.
You’re sure? Why wouldn’t they? Jumping to these types of conclusions is bad.
I agree, the military is utterly incompetent and arrogant, so this wouldn’t surprise me if it’s the Army’s fault.
This is the kind of stuff the “deregulate everything” crowd never seems to think about.
This dumbass is in the process of removing all enforcement of agency regulations and then this prime example of why we have rules in the first place appears
Exactly. Firing half the government would lead to outcomes like this
“Nooo, we don’t mean those regulations, only the bad ones!”
proceeds to blindly revoke regulations
“Whoopsie!”
Is the control tower also ran by illegal Mexican immigrants Donald?
In the press conference he’s trying to pin it on DEI. Disgusting behaviour.
Illegal immigrants too busy doing fentenyl and black people smoking PCP.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SXfzj-oKmtY
Probably what led to this horrible situation
The funny part is, the tower DID tell them what to do, the helo just didn’t do it
Hey look at that, someone who actually listened to the ATC calls.
It’s amazing how he always seems to have “the answer” AFTER something bad happens. But never the foresight to make changes before tragedy strikes.
Captain Hindsight, but wrong
BIDEN put the WINDMILLS in REVERSE… and that blew the copter against the plane. SAD.
I saw some of the press conference with the people investigating (it was on the news while getting ready for work) and one of the questions asked to them was this statement made by our glorious leader and I laughed. I laughed because it’s absolutely the complete opposite of how to handle this type of situation. As someone from his background, you would think he knows never to make any statements about anything until you have the clear picture first. What he did will just cause more headaches for people actually doing their jobs now and feel bad they even have to deal with Mr. Wildcard, creating more havoc for them than they need.
I don’t work in public facing affairs, but even internally it’s known you don’t make any statements to anyone outside your department regarding serious issues because every word can be taken the wrong way unless worded properly. If it’s something serious, you consult as a team, and someone approves the statement sent out.
Is it just possible they got rid of a highly trained and competent trans pilot and replaced them with Private Cousinfucker from Dumbfuckistan?
A reminder of what a presidential attitude used to be :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_passing#"The_buck_stops_here"
The pictured President is one of those lazy left wingers who doesn’t want to work.
This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented.
Too true, Donald, too true. I’ve been saying that a lot lately.
This was pilot deviation or pilot error for the helicopter. They were instructed to maintain visual separation and to cross behind the CRJ and then just didn’t.
Edit: The issue was also that they reported CRJ in sight. If they couldn’t find the CRJ, ATC should have routed them on a safe path. But they reported in sight.
Do you have any links to sources on this? I see a lot of people speaking authoritatively on this here but no links to sources.
I don’t have a link, but the conversation with ATC is online.
Check out VAS aviation on YouTube
