Passenger plane from Wichita collides with DC police helicopter minutes ago arriving to Dulles
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Early reports of 60 onboard plane from Kansas.
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Yikes... did the helicopter not have ATC?
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Really terrible, river is much colder than usual since we've been in a cold streak. Landing towards the northwest on the shorter runway 33. Hopefully there are some survivors - it would have been very close to the ground but at nighttime not sure how you find 60 people in the water. I suspect too low to the ground for TCAS to engage and unclear if a chopper would even have TCAS.
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It collided with a UH60... that's an Army helicopter.. yikes
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That really sucks
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Google says H-60s do have TCAS but being <15 seconds from touching down I think that would be too low for traffic advisory from TCAS.
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Jesus. Terrible.
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Supposedly the helicopter had a priority person on board... could be a member of the cabinet or senator etc....
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Deep state theories start….now.
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Yup... and if you see the video... the copter belines for the plane... crazy they didn't see each other
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It's okay to politicize things again
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Latest is 3 soldiers on the Blackhawk and no high value targets
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Trump’s decision was a bad decision for the country in a multitude of ways.
It’s not related to what happened today.
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I was in the police chopper as an observer east of LAX over the 710 freeway. We were at the authorized altitude and there was a low overcast. I look up to the right and a jet liner comes out of the overcast and went just over us. I could see rivets plain as day. A very unpleasant experience. The jet wasn't supposed be below the approach attitude but the pilot decided to make a visual approach and damn near killed everybody.
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Lipo
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Temporary freeze on hiring to get rid of DEI
The nation should survive
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Yikes
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Thank you, Mr. President.
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don’t take long to be trumps fault.
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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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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. -
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Meltdown
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Basic bitch bench warmer with another inspiring contribution.
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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 -
Why didn't the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane
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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:( 🙏🏻
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They did tell the helicopter what to do.
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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.
