Posted on 02/01/2025 6:50:28 AM PST by airdalechief
The Army announced Friday that at the request of the female pilot’s family, it is withholding the name of one of three Black Hawk helicopter crew members killed in the mid-air collision with a passenger plane over the Potomac River while the plane was on final approach Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., Wednesday night. The Army said the name “will not be released at this time”, leaving open the possibility of later public identification.
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“It was a very experienced group,” said Jonathan Koziol, a retired Army chief warrant officer with more than 30 years' experience in flying Army helicopters. Koziol has been attached to the Unified Command Post created at Reagan National Airport to coordinate efforts following the deadly collision.
This crew member has surfaced on a vid I saw, claims not being on board,not being unalived, and that the chopper was a unmanned
I heard the family was who requested the name not be released.
Methinks lots of confusion from mortuary affairs on scene. Army manifest says 1 female and 2 males....but they count 3 peckers.
Well, 500 flying hours is not much flying experience by military standards. Because the army is not releasing the name of individual who was at the controls at the time of the crash, reasonable minds aren’t satisfied that this person was a biological female.
Jo Ellis is alive and well. Voice of a man. What gives?
I thought none of the remains have been identified as those of the military personnel as of yet?
They say he's a real GOAT.
Regards,
No ID. “Family” is requesting the identity be withheld.
But we’re being told the “Jo Ellis - “trans” - Blackhawk pilot” isn’t the pilot of the Blackhawk PAT25 that impacted the AA CRJ flight on Wednesday night.
Traditionally, ID is withheld pending notification of kin. But the family knows already.
I can’t imagine how/why the “body hasn’t been recovered” unless the airframe was SO compressed/damaged upon impact (7 feet of water there, how hard is the bottom?) extricating the body could’ve been done in minutes with common “jaws of life” tools available to at least ONE of the crash/rescue/fire trucks available on scene - hell, they did an all-call and got fire/rescue from HOWARD county MD, 40 miles away.
WTAF is happening here?
Maybe President Trump will tell us at his next briefing; he already TOLD us the helicopter was flying much too high which media lambasted him for but was factually true.
He already TOLD us DEI was responsible (US Tax $$$$$ sent overseas for LGBTQP, DEI and condoms for Gaza while FAA couldn’t afford a second - required - ATC for DCA or hire one because they weren’t the right color) which was TRUE.
Just venting. There is SO much wrong here.
JD Vance, PRESIDENT of the Senate, should walk into the Capitol RFN (not RFQ, which is slower), declare the Senate ADJOURNED/RECESSED, so POTUS Trump can appoint ALL of his Cabinet members and they can get some sh!t done.
It’s perfectly within their Constitutionally-derived authority.
Sounds like BS.
I am thinking that Hegseth and Trump have ordered the FBI to dig very, very deep into the background of the female crew member. The dig would include all of her past associations.
I know Koziole. He’s a company man who will say whatever to stay in the good graces of the Army head-shed.
Regardless, that flight hour total of that crew wasn’t “highly” experienced. They were experienced enough to not have this accident occur.
For reference, I’m a retired Army AH-64D/E Aviator with 2800 flight hours.
I had 1000 flight hours after my first aviation deployment and I still wasn’t a pilot-in-command. Five-hundred hours is really just getting started.
The Biden regime caused Army Aviation to be in a bad way concerning experience Aviators getting out. The Army has refused to acknowledge this and we’re pumping out lower quality Aviators from Fort Rucker...erm...Novosel than we ever have.
I now teach and supervise AH-64 simulations so I don’t fly anymore, but I see the quality downgrade from my desk.
Hopefully, this changes with the new administration.
“I heard the family was who requested the name not be released.”
Have heard that, too. They should have no input when it comes to military personnel. (I wonder if there’s anything in Code that speaks to this issue.)
I haven’t heard one way or another on this, that I recall.
She was a member of the US Military...not a sewing club. Release the name.
Who said that? You know him? I do. I respectfully disagree.
Where were the flying hours accumulated??
One military member body has been recovered, the other not
Imo, this pilot identity information is not the family’s to control and will be released
Perhaps the Army is doing some damage control in terms of her record, qualifications, health (mental) and personal life choices
Withholding implies concerns of her culpability
If the DoD chooses to conceal this information it implies the mission or personnel were involved in a classified op or otherwise damaging to US national interest or security
Something’s fishy Pete.
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