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The Urgent Call to “Return to Base” & The Chopper’s Strange Movements Make No Sense (VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit ^ | January 30, 2025 | Grant Stinchfield

Posted on 01/30/2025 1:42:26 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man

Investigators are going to have to look at every possible reason a military Black Hawk Helicopter could crash into an American Airlines passenger jet landing at Reagan Airport in D.C.

The calls from air traffic controllers for the helicopter to “return to base” raise serious concerns over what may have caused this crash.

We even pulled the altitude and flight tracking data that revealed sharp zig-zags and a sudden drop in altitude moments before the crash. Here are the possible reasons behind the disaster: Mechanical Failure

Air Traffic Control Failure

Human Error

Nefarious Action

Pilot Suicide

Computer Hack

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TOPICS: Government; Local News; Military/Veterans; Travel
KEYWORDS: 5342; blackhawkhelo; dca; dcaircrash; flying; helicopter; midaircollision; nvg; reaganairport; returntobase
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Night vision would limit the peripheral view. VFR seems to be in play. Blackhawk pilot could have assumed the flight in front of the AA plane was the flight to watch. Night vision like looking through two toilet paper tubes. Left seat pilot looks left and right looks right.
1 posted on 01/30/2025 1:42:26 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14342387/passengers-victims-american-airlines-flight-crash-washington-dc.html

Full list of DC plane crash victims: All the people confirmed dead in Washington’s Reagan Airport tragedy


2 posted on 01/30/2025 1:44:37 PM PST by mairdie
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Last year, I reported on a tip from a United pilot that a near-fatal incident in Houston was the result of a fired employee being rehired through their DEI program

I was told I was a lying racist.

The Houston 767 incident report is out. I was 100% right:

"The first officer’s… https://t.co/Ki2mwVJFpY pic.twitter.com/L2ePvGAZM3— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) January 30, 2025


3 posted on 01/30/2025 1:45:06 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Looking more like suicide/terrorism?


4 posted on 01/30/2025 1:45:38 PM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

5 posted on 01/30/2025 1:47:28 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Third item down: nefarious action. Yep, we’re going to be seeing a lot of that now.


6 posted on 01/30/2025 1:47:30 PM PST by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?" )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

They have cars that veer for you if they are gonna hit you and they sense all the cars around you!!

There’s nothing for jets or helicopters that detect something as far away as would be needed to still avoid a collision.or the jet or helicopter just takes over and moves?

I thought there would be


7 posted on 01/30/2025 1:51:36 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: grey_whiskers

What’s the name?


8 posted on 01/30/2025 1:55:15 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Almost all US Army helicopter training accidents seem to involve NVG.

Odd that they would be using NVG in such a commercial-congested area.

9 posted on 01/30/2025 1:55:44 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: mairdie

Incredibly sad. My heart has been heavy all day.


10 posted on 01/30/2025 1:56:48 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: grey_whiskers

The government has been driving out white employees nust like they did in South Africa.


11 posted on 01/30/2025 2:00:20 PM PST by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

The chances of a chopper deliberately colliding with an aircraft do not seem very high to me, when both are moving and one is moving at hundreds of miles per hour. It would be like trying to hit a bumblebee with a BB-gun.

Occam’s Razor says it was an accident. A stupid, completely avoidable accident, but an accident none-the-less.


12 posted on 01/30/2025 2:06:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: dp0622

An Apache can dodge an RPG, all automated.


13 posted on 01/30/2025 2:06:51 PM PST by GingisK
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To: grey_whiskers

bttt


14 posted on 01/30/2025 2:09:35 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: grey_whiskers

Have you ever worked one of those places where someone is put on the schedule regularly but for one reason or another that person is allowed to show up whenever they want without repercussion leaving the rest to pick up the slack?

Did you hear Trumps comments on putting the mentally ill in these positions?

Ill bet you dollars to donuts that they have one of those people.

Mondays zhim has a man period. Tuesdays are counseling. Weds are just too exhausing after attending BIPOC Transgender Dance Therapy sessions. Etc.

Then theres the night that it does show up but cant handle the stress and walks out in the middle of the shift to go to Starbucks leaving the remaining one, a transspecies platypus, juggling multiple duties.

Something eventually goes wrong and management is absolutely shocked...shocked I tell you! They had no idea there was a problem!


15 posted on 01/30/2025 2:16:02 PM PST by gnarledmaw (If you dont like my sense of humor, please let me know so I can laugh at you too.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I don’t have enough time to point out all the times the guy in that video says something stupid.


16 posted on 01/30/2025 2:29:04 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Macho MAGA Man

After seeing the video online and listening to the radio chatter, It looks like the fault of the chopper pilot. They verbally accepted responsibility to maintain visual separation. More than once, the controller verifies with the chopper pilot that they have the plane in sight. But, they could have been looking at the plane following the doomed flight.

Here is where I split hairs regarding fault. Yeah, the chopper pilot accepted responsibility to maintain visual separation. But, since the controller saw something wasn’t right, they could have given the plane evasive maneuver instructions. A similar situation happened to me several years ago coming into Corpus Christi. The controller gave me immediate instructions to “immediately descend 1000 feet at best speed” to avoid an incoming military helicopter (no less) that would not respond to radio calls from the tower.


17 posted on 01/30/2025 2:37:07 PM PST by eastexsteve
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Three months ago, Lockheed bragged that could remotely control Black Hawk helicopters with an iPad.


18 posted on 01/30/2025 4:06:56 PM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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I’ll put my money on pilot suicide and homicide.

This has all of the markings of a woke Rainbow Warrior killing him/her/itself and others in protest of the end of trannies in the U.S. military.

The idiot ordering night vision training near a busy airport needs to be court martialed and busted down to private.


19 posted on 01/30/2025 4:53:24 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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I’ll put my money on pilot suicide and homicide.

This has all of the markings of a woke Rainbow Warrior killing him/her/itself and others in protest of the end of trannies in the U.S. military.

The idiot ordering night vision training near a busy airport needs to be court martialed and busted down to private.


20 posted on 01/30/2025 4:53:32 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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