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This sucks  ! ! ! I am afraid no one survived this...  

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on their way back from an event in Wichita.
From The NY Times:
"Figure skaters from the United States and Russia were among the 64 people onboard the commercial jet that collided midair with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night outside Washington.

Yes, just heard it has gone from a rescue to recovery mission, in this terrible event.

and flew in and out of DCA just last week..  

It's hard to imagine a professionally trained, army helicopter pilot not heeding the on board collision warning system. And even if that failed, which is highly unlikely, he/she would have a very good line of sight with the jet from the vector the chopper was on. He/she would also be getting collision avoidance instructions from the tower as well, one would think.

Especially involving a military aircraft. The chopper was verbally informed of the presence of the plane and told to pass behind it. But he failed to do that.
As for a "normal path," I just saw a graphic of the flight path or the chopper and it looked erratic.

I think it's never a good time for conspiracy theories, and but at the same time never too early or too late to ask tough questions - especially to point out something that doesn't sit well with common sense.

In you post above you did not ask any questions, you did however, make several very irresponsible statements.

We as a collective should ask tough questions.... The question being (since you don't seem particularly smart) was this truly an accident or there is something more to it..

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I know that the general tone of this forum is a mix of strongly held opinions mixed with a healthy dose of ad hominem insults, but could we agree, at least just in this thread, to avoid the name calling out of respect for the dead?

We agree!

This is the second post of Nicky’s in this thread where I’ve hit the “Like” button!

Well.. I am not implying anything at this point.. I am not suggesting affirmatively that this WAS anything intentional.  I am suggesting people use common sense and don't be afraid to ask tough questions..

According to one "expert" being interviewed (sorry: I don't remember the name or what their qualifications are, but it seemed like an experienced pilot or other experienced flight professional - NOT a politician or department official or armchair pilot), current collision avoidance tech does not work well below ~1000 feet.  This collision occurred at ~300-400 feet.  
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I didn't hear the full explanation, so this is ME asking:  
(1) increasing congestion at lower altitudes could produce constant / false warning signals, distracting crew from focusing on their approach and landing?  
(2) at lower altitudes and approach speeds, the number of "blind" "react to a signal" collision avoidance measures are limited and might create ANOTHER hazard in the process? [Think about driving on the highway and someone swerves to avoid an obstruction over there on the right and rams into some other vehicles over there on the left.]  
(3) I want to ask how maneuverable large jet aircraft are at lower approach speeds -- I do recall a "near miss" during a daytime, visual landing (probably at Logan / Boston but I don't remember if it was local news or national news): the jet was coming in and slowing down to land on the assigned runway but there was another aircraft taxiing across the runway (runways DO intersect and cross each other) up ahead. The pilot quickly "hit the gas" and flew back UP to avoid a possible collision. I don't recall if it was a "near miss" of 100 feet or less or a "What the fuck did you do that for? The other plane would have been clear by 1000 feet by the time you reached the intersection!!" As I recall, regardless of the 100 foot vs 1000 foot clearance, the taxiing pilot was found to be at fault and should not have been crossing the runway during that time anyway.
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NTSB investigations can be very thorough (error analysis, fault analysis, failure analysis, ... nitpick analysis) and take a long time.  In  his press conference, Trump basically assigned blame to "DEI," BEFORE any kind of analysis at all. Trump called for hiring only the best and brightest geniuses on the same day that his HHS nominee RF Kennedy is being interviewed by the Senate.  To me, Kennedy is not qualified to head HHS but Trump sheep senators will approve Kennedy and, thus, politically designate him to be the "best, brightest genius" for the job.  Put on your seat belts.

and a pilot's license myself, here is my theory . . . .  

Truly disrespectful and disgusting.

http://www.snopes.com/news/2024/01/15/faa-dei-initiatives/
from Jan 15, 2025 ... two weeks BEFORE the DC incident:  
"On Jan. 14, 2024, Fox News and the New York Post, among others, ran a story that not-so-subtly tried to link a Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines incident — in which a Boeing 737 Max 9 lost a plug door mid-flight — to an allegedly new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives ..."
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And post-DC incident:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-evidence-appears-blame-faa-diversity-initiatives-factor/story?id=118272015
Trump, without citing evidence, attacks FAA diversity initiatives during plane crash briefing, prompts fierce backlash.
Jan 30, 2025
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"... But when a reporter pressed Trump, saying that similar language on DEI policies existed on the FAA's website under Trump's entire first term, Trump shot back, "I changed the Obama policy, and we had a very good policy and then Biden came in and he changed it. [ACCORDING TO SNOPES AND OTHERS, THIS IS A BLATANT TRUMP LIE, PROVABLE BY WEBSITE HISTORY.] ..."
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"Trump said Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary in the Biden administration, "just got a good line of bulls---" and said Buttigieg had "run [the Department of Transportation] right into the ground with his diversity." ..."
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"... Buttigieg responded in a statement on X. "We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch. President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. ..." [On Day 1, (Dictator for One Day) TRUMP SUSPENDED HIRING INTO ALL VACANT FEDERAL POSITIONS. Trump now claims that it did not include ATCs. Others claim that it did include vacant ATC positions. It should be easy to determine how many ATCs were hired between 20-Jan and 29-Jan.]

No investigation needed at all. Just blame DEI. Trump is just a disgrace to this country. His first week, he goes soft on people who assault and injure the police. In his second week he politicizes a calamity in last nights crash. I cant wait until next week. smh.

and blames DEI when there is NO EVIDENCE of it being a factor.  According to The Times it may have been under-staffing:
"The internal report reviewed by The New York Times said the controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity on Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways — jobs typically assigned to two different controllers."
So much for "black lesbian midgets."
Wanker has descended into self-parody. And racism. Oh, right, Wanker's been a racist for a VERY long time.
Was Wanker passed over for promotion in favor of a black lesbian midget?
That would explain a lot.

Most all crashes involving commercial aircraft or military aircraft have "fairly experienced crews."  Would you want to be a passenger in an aircraft where the crew is only evaluated "annually?"  Do you see the desperation of declaring I'm wrong when the investigation has just started.  You are a simpleton and should stay in your lane on things you CLEARLY don't know about.  Is Hegseth telling all he knows?  Probably not, but all will be revealed over time.  

Many sources, including military newspaper sources, say that the helicopter was on a training mission:  
http://www.foxnews.com/us/3-soldiers-black-hawk-helicopter-involved-dc-airliner-crash
"... The helicopter had flown out of Davidson Air Base at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and crashed while performing a training mission, Army officials said. ..."
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http://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-blackhawk-helicopter-plane-collision/
"... “While performing a training mission a United States Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter from Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion, Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir, Va., collided in midair with an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet Flight 5342 last night at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport,” Ron McLendon, a spokesman for Joint Task Force – National Capital Region, said on Thursday. “The FAA, NTSB and the United States Army will investigate. ..."
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I hope that someone will explain what the "training mission" was. It could be periodic skills REFRESHER training for a fairly or even highly experienced crew, keeping them in practice for a "real" situation. It could be training on something totally new for a trainee joining the more experienced crew. CDL mentioned instrument-only (no visual) flying training as a possibility, NOT a certainty.  
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CDL mentioned TCAS - Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems. I had read about that earlier (see my post above). Here's an article:  
http://www.newsweek.com/dc-plane-crash-tcas-warning-black-hawk-helicopter-2023717
Former Pilot Analyzes DC Plane Crash: Did TCAS Fail? Jan 30, 2025
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"... Retired American Airlines pilot Doug Rice told NBC News that TCAS is not fully effective below 700 feet—the estimated altitude of the collision. As planes approach landing, TCAS alerts can be suppressed to reduce unnecessary distractions, meaning the system may not have provided a timely warning that the Black Hawk was approaching. However, Bubb noted that some witnesses reported seeing the airplane in a steep bank turn before the helicopter struck it, followed by a trail of sparks.  "That tells me the helicopter was on the TCAS of the passenger plane, and the pilot tried to avoid it, but it was too late," Bubb told Newsweek. ..."'
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Bubb also suggested that there might have been a medical incident that could lead to an incident like this.

Please note Wanker provides ZERO evidence to support his claim of "retarded trans lesbians."
Because there isn't any.

As they did climate change and everything else under their watch.Lets see who he is gonna blame this on..China ?  Because, although he is charge and it happened under his watch he will put it on someone else..anyone else.