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Passenger plane from Wichita collides with DC police helicopter minutes ago arriving to Dulles

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  • CallMeBigErn
    CallMeBigErn Member Posts: 8,028
    edited January 30
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    To clarify, a military Black Hawk collided with a passenger jet over the Potomac 2-3 miles from the White House, likely killing all 64 civilians in the jet and the 3 Black Hawk crew. Everyone. A rescue mission is underway in freezing Potomac waters but nah.

    Our President informed us of this as shown. Katherine Leavitt twitter, White House twitter, but not Donald Trump twitter, surprisingly. May God Bless Their Souls.

    Our President then proceeded to go on Truth Social, his own social media network, afterwards to tell us more.

    "The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport. The helicopter was going straight at the airplane for an extended period of time. It is a CLEAR NIGHT, the lights on the plane were blazing, why didn't the helicopter go up or down, or turn. Why didn't the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!"

    -DJT

    Guys….

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  • CallMeBigErn
    CallMeBigErn Member Posts: 8,028
    edited January 30
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    This is trauma.

    Our president wouldn't know what that is, since he's a fucking sociopath. A military helicopter/citizen jet mass casualty collision happened over the Potomac 3 miles away from the White House. Maybe less. Everyone's dead. Hundreds of rescue workers trying in vain to find bodies and wreckage in the freezing Potomac at night.

    What is our president doing? He's sitting on his own social media platform in diapers at the White House 3 miles away pontificating about why helicopter didn't go up down,or turn. and how it COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED.

    Are you getting it yet?

    I'm losing my fuckin marbles. I welcome anyone else to join.

    Where's the line, ya'll? Find it, please, for the love of all that is good and Holy.

  • Goduckies
    Goduckies Member Posts: 8,091 Standard Supporter
  • CallMeBigErn
    CallMeBigErn Member Posts: 8,028
    edited January 30
  • CallMeBigErn
    CallMeBigErn Member Posts: 8,028
    edited January 30
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    AP's most recent

    Crash happened 11 hours ago. No official reports on any survivors or dead.

    Unclear, I'm hearing. But why didn't the helicopter go up or down or turn

  • CallMeBigErn
    CallMeBigErn Member Posts: 8,028
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    Why didn't the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane

  • graveyardDEADdawg
    graveyardDEADdawg Member Posts: 2,320 Standard Supporter
    edited January 30

    yikes (edit: I need to finish reading before posting @Goduckies)

    seeing actual rivets. You are a very lucky man. I’ve only been in a heli in Hawaii and once I got a ride on an army helicopter which was pretty cool. After Kobe’s crash I vowed never to fly in one again, not that I would be invited.

    Terrible news this morning:( 🙏🏻

  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,393

    I am FOR a well functioning and safe aviation system. From a policy perspective it has needed better leadership for 2 decades. From an operations perspective, ATC has done a very good job with what they have to work with (outdated technology and low staffing). The NTSB is one of the most effective government agencies. The FAA has fucked up aircraft certification oversight policy (Boeing) and ATC modernization, but still has people in the ranks who have the proper technical know-how. Tossing out folks with deep technical knowledge and capable ATC operations people (there is still a shortage) as "career government bureaucrats" is bullshit. We need those people to doing their jobs to keep the economy moving. There are plenty of career government bureaucrats elsewhere in the gov't, don't get me wrong, but there needs to be much more thought put into this.