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Army Withholding Name of Female Crew Member in Reagan Airport Helicopter Collision with Passenger Plane
www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Jan. 31, 2025 4:56 pm | Kristinn Taylor

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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A spokesman for the Unified Command Post for the crash told reporters Thursday the unnamed pilot is a female with 500 flying hours (Telegraph excerpt):

“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.

1 posted on 02/01/2025 6:50:28 AM PST by airdalechief
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To: airdalechief

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


2 posted on 02/01/2025 6:53:02 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: airdalechief

I heard the family was who requested the name not be released.


3 posted on 02/01/2025 6:53:33 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: airdalechief
"Female".....

Methinks lots of confusion from mortuary affairs on scene. Army manifest says 1 female and 2 males....but they count 3 peckers.

4 posted on 02/01/2025 6:56:13 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: airdalechief

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.


5 posted on 02/01/2025 6:56:43 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: DCBryan1

Jo Ellis is alive and well. Voice of a man. What gives?


6 posted on 02/01/2025 6:57:50 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DCBryan1

I thought none of the remains have been identified as those of the military personnel as of yet?


7 posted on 02/01/2025 6:58:38 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: airdalechief
“It was a very experienced group,” said Jonathan Koziol

They say he's a real GOAT.

Regards,

8 posted on 02/01/2025 7:02:33 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: airdalechief

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.


9 posted on 02/01/2025 7:07:50 AM PST by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: airdalechief
A spokesman for the Unified Command Post for the crash told reporters Thursday the unnamed pilot is a female with 500 flying hours

According to God, me, and biology, the pilot was not female and had the XY chromosome imprinted in every cell of his body, despite what he, the United States Army, and mainstream media tell me.

10 posted on 02/01/2025 7:08:40 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: airdalechief

Sounds like BS.


11 posted on 02/01/2025 7:09:11 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: airdalechief

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.


12 posted on 02/01/2025 7:10:10 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: airdalechief

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.


13 posted on 02/01/2025 7:10:41 AM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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To: V_TWIN

“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.)


14 posted on 02/01/2025 7:10:59 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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To: mewzilla

I haven’t heard one way or another on this, that I recall.


15 posted on 02/01/2025 7:12:05 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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To: V_TWIN

She was a member of the US Military...not a sewing club. Release the name.


16 posted on 02/01/2025 7:12:19 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: alexander_busek

Who said that? You know him? I do. I respectfully disagree.


17 posted on 02/01/2025 7:13:06 AM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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To: Dr. Franklin

Where were the flying hours accumulated??


18 posted on 02/01/2025 7:13:09 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: mewzilla

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


19 posted on 02/01/2025 7:13:12 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: airdalechief

Something’s fishy Pete.


20 posted on 02/01/2025 7:13:18 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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