Posted on 02/02/2025 7:05:15 AM PST by Red Badger
On Saturday the US Army released the name of the pilot of the US Army Blackhawk helicopter that flew into a passenger jet landing at Reagan National Airport.
The crash was on Wednesday. The third pilot’s name, Rebecca Lobach, was finally released on Saturday, three days later.
All 64 passengers in the jet were killed. The three pilots in the Blackhawk helicopter also died in the explosive crash.
Kristinn Taylor at The Gateway Pundit reported:
After withholding at the request of the family the name of the female pilot killed in the mid-air collision Wednesday night between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a PSA/American Airlines passenger plane on final approach to Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., the Army issued a statement Saturday afternoon from her family identifying the pilot as 28-year-old Capt. Rebecca Lobach from Durham, N.C.
The other two soldiers killed in the crash previously identified by the Army are Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Georgia, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, of Great Mills, Maryland.
Lobach was part of a three-man crew flying a training mission for “continuity of government” down the Potomac River when the collision occurred, killing all three crew members on the Black Hawk based at nearby Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and all 60 passengers and four crew members on the flight out of Wichita, Kansas.
Lobach, who had over 450 hours of flying experience, recently served as a military social aide at the Biden White House.
It took the US Army and Rebecca’s family three days to scrub her social media accounts. They really don’t want the public to know anything about this female pilot.
Rebecca worked in the Biden White House.
U.S. Army Capt. Rebecca Lobach at the White House press room, January 24, 2023, via Samantha Brown. Here entire social media was scrubbed.
What are they hiding from the American public?
They even scrubbed her family members’ accounts.
“Does EVERYONE have social media accounts?”
Yes, in that age group.
I see that you can’t find her social media accounts online.
I also see that there are a lot of pictures of her that you can find.
Where did those come from?
TWA 800 was [missile] Pilot Error?
A better way to handle the whole thing would be to not destroy any of the electronic evidence, and if Lobach is clean (as you seem to presume) then her advocates can demonstrate that she’s clean.
thanks for the info. I’ve been trying to find something for years
"This is textbook DEI."
Where the Rules of Engagement with DEI priests and priestesses, is bend a knee.
"Tolerance" means, not reaching for the controls, in order to save.
"Tolerance" means, NOT "appropriating" girl power and all the other DEI powers that outrank:
The eyes as shifty as can be, glancing in all directions from stop to stop as well as scanning the instruments.
Flying in the desert, with clearance and no other flights nearby, one can maybe relax a bit.
Flying through one of the busiest airport corridors, just off the runway, with multiple aircraft stacked, coming and going, takes a lot of nerve, skill and time in the seat.
Those three sets of eyes were not looking for the most obvious danger and threat, the midair.
A simulator would have been more appropriate for prep than the real deal, with a few close calls thrown in.
Two pilots, one crewman (‘crew chief”) were aboard. Of the two pilots the other pilot had about 1000 hours to her 500. In a sane world the instructor/examiner would usually be senior. Also this young woman had been assigned to the White House up until very recently so may have been rusty and/or working to regain currency..
The association with Biden circle and the turn / zoom into the runway’s glideslope does give you pause. Someone who flew that route would be aware of the landing approach crossing altitude over the Potomac.
How many hours did she gain while working at BiXiden’s White, lid capped House?
Over what period?
One of the posters claiming it was a trans aircrew member is an example of taking claims and representing them as fact. It’s faulty reasoning and there’s some of it in all walks of life. Some, of course, make a spectacle of themselves in the process - the poster from Thursday being a good example.
“Game Face”——
.
Definitely Not in ‘The Moment.’
The Sexual Hatrassment is a Political weapon that goes one way.
Her interest in that tells me she’s not a Regan Republican, and she wasn’t going to work for Trump, as she had Joe. She was blessed with opportunity upon opportunity after opportunity - as she was connected.
Her grieving family owes you nothing.
You are wrong. WE ALREADY KNOW A LOT MORE THAN ONE THING.
The landing airliner was EXACTLY where it was supposed to be within seconds of touchdown. The airliner had been cleared to land. Landing aircraft have the right of way. The airliner had gear and flaps down and reduced airspeed. Its pilots had few options.
The helicopter had acknowledged on the ATC radio its pilots were responsible for separation but the HELICOPTER WAS NOT WHERE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE.
A Blackhawk helicopter can stop its forward movement. It can hover. It can turn on a dime.
Digging through wrecked aircraft won’t change those facts.
Well, I must work with some wierdos because I know 5-6 in that age group that have no social media accounts that I know of as it’s come up in conversation before. They use Messages or Line to communicate.
I would agree, except for 1 question that is crucial in assigning blame.
How long was the FAA controllers’ data showing that the helicopter was outside of its zone? If they had enough time (with enough tower/other staff_ to warn the AA flight (and then others) that there’s a rogue aircraft & they need to take evasive actions then they are at fault. Any aircraft can go rogue for reasons of pilot error, incompetence, mechanical issues, hijacking, or pilot health emergency & when that happens it’s up to the air traffic controllers to warn everyone else.
If she very suddenly and swiftly left the authorized zone (for that date/time/weather and other conditions) that these helicopters could travel just a few seconds before the crash then I put all the blame on the helicopter/staff.
If air traffic control had enough time to warn the AA flight that
Why was her social media accounts (and those of her family) made a special exception for scrubbing, and not the other 2 in the helicopter or the 2 pilots in the AA cockpit? This reeks with concern and wonderment if this same sort of entitled behavior was happening inside the helicopter. Suppose a dialogue like this:
Chief: Pilot, please drop altitude.
Pilot: Stop mansplaining to me you MAGA a**hole. I’m a Captain.I can do this. I’m going up. It’ll be fine.
The real journalists following this story are going to find out everything that was scrubbed. Too many people died & their loved ones will demand answers & won’t care about the politics. There will be pretend journalists who will just follow the CNN talking points.
It’s shocking to me that she was flying at dark near DCA with just 250 hours. The military should just be having pilots of that low experience flying in conditions like sunny days in the middle of the Nevada desert, especially if they are a Captain who has spent most of their career in non-flying roles like she did at the White House.
She probably got her posting at Belvoir due to DEI. That’ll be something for the new SecDef to have someone look into and make the facts known.
“young enlisted man killed in a car wreck”
The details matter—a lot.
If the young man was a passenger then I agree the marijuana could remain a family secret.
However if the man was the driver—whole new ball game.
I don’t know if he is left or right, but his scademic credentials are excellent.
None of his many published research papers would indicate that he is anything other than an excellent academic medical researcher.
I don’t know Him personally. My wife is an MD on the same med school faculty. They are very selective.
I noticed his daughter did not go to Duke when she would get a free ride if she qualified. Instead she went to UNC.
UNC is much easier to get into, but still an excellent university.
“Trump knew everything about those crew members going back to grammar School he knew all about their social media, criminal histories if any etc. He knew everything and why he was so angry during the initial news conference. Trump knew!”
Then why are Trump and Hegseth complicit with the coverup?
Where did they come from? Why not leave behind a few non-implicating innocent appearing photos? C’mon...
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