Posted on 02/01/2025 2:53:58 PM PST by Morgana
The U.S. Army has identified the third pilot of the H-60 Black Hawk Helicopter that collided with an American Airline CRJ-700 passenger jet on Wednesday as it was on approach to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, killing 67 people.
Captain Rebecca M. Lobach, 28, from Durham, North Carolina was one of three soldiers aboard the chopper that crashed into the jet just as it was coming into land.
The Army had initially refused to identify Lobach at the request of her family but the decision to release her name came 'at the request of and in coordination with the family,' according to a statement released by the Army.
'We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Rebecca. She was a bright star in all our lives,' her family said. 'Rebecca was a warrior and would not hesitate to defend her country in battle.'
Lobach had worked as a White House aide during the Biden administration and had served as an aviation officer in the Army from July 2019 until January 2025.
Her family went on to describe her as 'kind, generous, brilliant, funny, ambitious and strong.'
Lobach had been awarded the Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal and Army Service Ribbon.
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So unnecessary.
This sounds highly unusual to me:
“Lobach had worked as a White House aide during the Biden administration”
In what capacity? Is this normal?
Worked in the WH under Biden for starters.
Is there any way we will ever find out who was in control?
good they got the identification issue resolved
but will this reprieve result in further obfuscation?
Look for the black box data to be released.
(In 2075.)
unless whoever didn’t have actual control of the chopper
> Whoever was at the controls was a complete f*ckup loser. <
Kinda looks that way. And so who gets the ultimate blame, the pilot or the person who put her in that seat?
I’d say it’s the latter.
Fortunately for the country, Trump is putting an end to all this dangerous DEI nonsense. If you want to sit at the controls, you’d better have the competency to do so.
‘Highly experienced crew’ flying higher than their allowed 2,000 ft max altitude.
Come to think of it, why don’t they make the helicopter from the same material they use for the flight recorder?
;)
Give you odds her stint in the Biden Administration had something to do with DEI outreach or some such stupidity.
Maybe she was in the Bunny Suit ?
“‘Highly experienced crew’ flying higher than their allowed 2,000 ft max altitude.”
I didn’t know this. Sounds like they were “joy riding” in that Black Hawk.
I believe it was 200 feet.
Previous reporting is that the CW2 was the check pilot, and she was the pilot in command undergoing evaluation. That means she likely was in the right seat, normal for helos.
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.
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