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BREAKING NEWS Captain Rebecca Lobach is identified as third Black Hawk pilot who died in collision with American Airlines flight in DC
Daily Mail UK ^ | February 1, 2025 | James Gordon

Posted on 02/01/2025 2:53:58 PM PST by Morgana

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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Whadda ya think?


21 posted on 02/01/2025 3:16:09 PM PST by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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To: tflabo
“‘Highly experienced crew’ flying higher than their allowed 2,000 ft max altitude.”

200ft in that corridor.

Planes are landing and taking off there you know, so the helicopters must stay below the glide path.

22 posted on 02/01/2025 3:19:38 PM PST by bosco24
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To: iontheball

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-pilot-rebecca-lobach/


23 posted on 02/01/2025 3:21:36 PM PST by iontheball
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To: tflabo

200, not 2,000 feet max


24 posted on 02/01/2025 3:21:58 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: tflabo

“””‘Highly experienced crew’ flying higher than their allowed 2,000 ft max altitude.”””


200 feet is the max altitude according to our President Donald J Trump.


25 posted on 02/01/2025 3:22:13 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: tflabo

200 feet, not 2000


26 posted on 02/01/2025 3:23:14 PM PST by msrngtp2002 (Just my opinion.)
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To: tflabo

I think 200 feet


27 posted on 02/01/2025 3:26:15 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: twister881

The CW2 would have been the experienced pilot on board. The fresh Capt....where and when did she go to flight school? Navy helo pilots fly helos for a living they don’t do political social aid tours at the white house. Idk about Army but generally Army help pilots are CWOs.


28 posted on 02/01/2025 3:29:48 PM PST by Rural_Michigan
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To: JPG

Are female soldiers now allowed to have loose hair hanging out from under their helmets?


29 posted on 02/01/2025 3:30:57 PM PST by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
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To: Morgana

My question is whether air traffic control had the authority to simply order the military chopper to ‘stop’ or ‘reverse course’ rather than direct it to ‘look out’ or ‘be careful’.


30 posted on 02/01/2025 3:34:15 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Freee-dame

450 hours in six years does not sound like “highly experienced” to me, especially when she spent some of that time working as a White House aide in the Biden administration. I wonder how many hours she had piloting a helicopter in the last year.


My hunch is that her “aide” job ended less than 2 weeks ago. And she probably had the connections to remain in the DC area, vs. going to another base in the hinterlands. So she was just getting back into the swing of flying during this training mission. If so, maybe (in hindsight) not such good judgement letting her train in this high risk corridor.


31 posted on 02/01/2025 3:36:46 PM PST by rbg81 (=)
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To: Morgana

Was she lifted by the Biden (Jill?) Administration beyond the level of her competence?

That would—like Kimberly Cheatle—be another DEI exemplar.


32 posted on 02/01/2025 3:36:51 PM PST by rx
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To: Uncle Miltie

Just. Please. Stop.


33 posted on 02/01/2025 3:37:04 PM PST by 3RIVRS
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To: iontheball

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-pilot-rebecca-lobach/

From the article - Was this what she was doing in Biden’s WH?

Lobach also planned to become a physician after her Army career because she was inspired to heal people by her experiences as a certified Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) Victim Advocate, the statement says.


34 posted on 02/01/2025 3:38:57 PM PST by iontheball
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To: rbg81

I will add that I am relieved the pilot wasn’t some kind of suicidal trannie. While that would definitely validate what Trump has been saying, it would also have reflected very, very poorly on the Army.


35 posted on 02/01/2025 3:39:15 PM PST by rbg81 (=)
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To: tflabo

200ft, not 2,000.


36 posted on 02/01/2025 3:40:12 PM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: rbg81

Everything Trump has said has been validated.


37 posted on 02/01/2025 3:40:36 PM PST by Kleon
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To: Morgana

2019 to Jan. 2025. Was she flying during this time or was she a WH aide?


38 posted on 02/01/2025 3:43:30 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Rural_Michigan

Agree, the CW2 was the more experienced aviator. Of course, not every Army helicopter pilot is a warrant officer; otherwise, who would be the commanders of the aviation companies, battalions, & brigades. I’ll guess her flight training & operational experience were delayed or interrupted by the WH aide assignment; not a good thing. Pretty obvious she exercised poor altitude control the other evening. Two hundred feet high is unacceptable. Will be interesting to see if the crew were using NVGs and how that might have affected lookout doctrine and basic flying performance.


39 posted on 02/01/2025 3:44:00 PM PST by twister881
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To: Freee-dame

She prob was getting this check ride because she was returning to the Aviation Battalion after her White House stent.


40 posted on 02/01/2025 3:45:14 PM PST by Robe
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