Army Blackhawk collides with jet from Wichita near Reagan International. Washington DC/Potomac area.
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Army Blackhawk collides with jet from Wichita near Reagan International. Washington DC/Potomac area.
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Watch carefully!
Last edited by BushMasterBoy; 01-30-2025 at 21:11. Reason: additional information
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An absolute tragedy, but not surprising given Reagan's location. Probably not the best spot for a huge airport given the busy nature of the airspace. Let me guess, it's Trumps fault according to CNN and MSNBC
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a sad sad deal.
A or multiple humans errored. Was it traffic controller error, or pilot error, or both?
Traffic control apparently asked the heli if they had visual on the airliner, and they confirmed that they did. BUT did they have visual on the right airliner?
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Yup.
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CNN pundit apologizes after sparking right-wing fury for blaming DC plane crash on Trump
And looking at BlueSky, the left's Twitter, it is obviously Trump's fault.
A military helicopter takes out an airplane full of figure skaters? Clearly part of Trump's anti-gay agenda.
Last edited by eddiememphis; 01-30-2025 at 10:06.
I heard the helicopter pilots were wearing NVGs. Would the lack of peripheral vision be a factor?
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One would think that in that type of environment with so much light from various sources that NVG would be more of a hinderance than help
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Helo was also flying an established helicopter route with a max altitude of 200. Helo was at 300ish when the collision happened. Pilot was an instructor with 1000hrs, co pilot had 500hrs. They both had experience with this route.
Blue lines are helicopter flight routes, they were on route 4, the numbers next to them are the max altitudes allowed.
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Last edited by def90; 01-30-2025 at 17:41.
Point of impact was closer to the blue X. I watched the rescue helicopters last nite on ADS-B. Army Blackhawk should have been at 1000' minimum altitude. Since the Blackhawk is a L model there will not be a flight recorder installed. Not sure if the Blackhawk had CAS (collision avoidance system) avionics installed.
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