Posted on 01/31/2025 3:45:06 AM PST by davikkm
What in the world just happened at Reagan National Airport? Like many of you, I was deeply distressed to hear of such a great tragedy that should have been so easy to avoid. There is no way that we can bring back those that have died. Many believe that if competent people were running things at Reagan National Airport, they would still be with us. Others are entirely convinced that we aren’t being given the entire picture. There are so many unanswered questions, and I am going to share quite a few with you in this article.
But let’s start with the basics. On Wednesday evening, a Black Hawk helicopter violently collided with an American Airlines plane that was attempting to land…
A massive search and rescue effort was underway after an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair with an American Airlines jet at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday evening.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided in midair with a Sikorsky UH-60 helicopter while on approach to Runway 33 at Reagan National Airport (DCA) around 9 p.m. local time.
PSA was operating as Flight 5342 for American Airlines, and it departed from Wichita, Kansas.
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“Jo Ellis” is such a unique name!
There’s even Lee Harvey Oswald on Facebook!
PROOF! Of teleportation and time travel used by the government!
THIS!!!!!
Heads are going to roll in the chain of command, up to and including generals
IF the helo was responsible, will this cost the US government millions in compensation for the families of the victims on the airliner?
Whatever happened, Jo Ellis wanted to be famous for “his/NOTaher/its” story
Well, “his/NOTaHer/its” famous now.....
Hard to believe you have forty years experience. According to the reporting the plane was on a turning descent final. The pilots aren’t in a position to see the helo thru their belly. Gear and flaps down. You’re not gonna do a lot of maneuvering in that configuration. Helo reporting he sees the plane.
Exactly. No way this is on the CRJ crew. The helicopter also seems to have climbed from 200' to almost 400' in the last 20 seconds or so before the crash, according to the radar data.
Before a turn say to the left, You do a quick bank to the opposite direction and check that blind spot that will be caused by the belly of the plane before making the turn. The pilots maybe could have prevented the collision. I am not saying it is their fault or weather they did that or not. I am just bringing up the fact that the airline pilots had some possible fault in the crash and nobody is mentioning it. Guess what? I am still alive.
Not going to tell us anything except for maybe the co-pilot of PSA saying “oh sh*t” just be fore impact.
“Jo” posted on FB today so most likely false.
UH60s are very hard to see at night, due to the design of their nav lighting. Almost invisible from below, and not much better from above. Port and starboard lights are quiet often even partially masked with 120mph tape for blackout purposes, with only a small portion of the lens exposed... The only other lighting is the non-flashing beacon that we see on the video, and the pale green “slime lights” that are there for blackout ops. Your years of experience should have exposed you to how hard it is to see aircraft below your flight level when there are hundreds of other lights from the cityscape below that cause them to blend in. The airliner had already turned final (heading of 330°) from base at 350 AGL when it was struck by the helicopter on an approximate heading of 200°. In addition, the helo was climbing from below, much in the same way that our fighter aircraft determined to be the best way to attack a bomber... from behind and below. That is the hardest area to view for the pilot of any aircraft, barring a rear view camera. The helo was pretty much behind and below the CRJ700.
The normal MOA for the helos on the Potomac is close to the eastern shoreline with a hard ceiling of 200AGL. Why did the helo deviate toward the middle of the channel and exceed 200AGL, moving to the 350AGL flight path of 5342’s final approach? This was a clear VFR night. We know the CRJ700 was lit up, with all lights including the landing lights ablaze.
Let’s hope that the black boxes give us an answer.
Thanks 👍👍
We need—must have—answers. Trump will demand it.
Why not post The 10 Burning Questions?
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