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FAA: Two killed after State Police helicopter crashes in Charlottesville
WSET.com ^ | 8/12/17 | Elizabeth Tyree

Posted on 08/12/2017 3:20:03 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

FAA confirms that two people were killed after a state police helicopter crashed in Charlottesville around 5 p.m. Saturday.

(Excerpt) Read more at wset.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: braking; chopper; cops; crash; cvariots; localnews; obamalegacy; planecrash; police; searchworks; virginia
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To: txhurl

Just sensationalist nonsense - “fake news”.

Thank God Trump has access to Twitter...


61 posted on 08/12/2017 6:15:03 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Bret Baier retweeted:

State Police ID troopers who died in the helicopter crash. Lt. H. Jay Cullen of Midlothian. Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates of Quinton.


62 posted on 08/12/2017 6:34:10 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I said good morning to one of the fallen today. He was working out of a temp office down the hall from mine. God bless him.


63 posted on 08/12/2017 8:12:52 PM PDT by IFly4Him
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To: IFly4Him

Very sad


64 posted on 08/12/2017 8:19:21 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: VRWC For Truth

Totally agree... nothing but a Clinton crony. He’s definitely one of the biggest crooks in modern US history.


65 posted on 08/12/2017 8:52:31 PM PDT by Bayou City
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To: txhurl

The ground.


66 posted on 08/12/2017 8:52:34 PM PDT by Delta 21
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To: Delta 21

Photo shows them in a tree, no fire.


67 posted on 08/12/2017 8:55:14 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: txhurl

The witnessing of a helicopter going down under the apparent influence of a tail rotor failure does not support concluding a “sniper strike”, that’s logical absurdity at its finest, particularly given rotor crafts propensity to crash catastrophically under mechanical failures.


68 posted on 08/12/2017 9:04:43 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Mpatl

That wasn’t a “sniper”, it was just a guy with a gun shooting cops in ambush/close quarters. For petes sake get a damned dictionary and thesaurus and do a little research, words have meanings...


69 posted on 08/12/2017 9:09:11 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Thibodeaux

“Terry McAwful has cut police maintenance funds”

If it needs maintenance critical to flight sasety, the aircraft is grounded.


70 posted on 08/12/2017 9:09:46 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: Mears

He’s not kidding, that’s exactly what he did.


71 posted on 08/12/2017 9:11:07 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: txhurl

The only one I have seen shows the tail rotor section only. Did your “Afghanistan sniper” source have more pics?


72 posted on 08/12/2017 9:33:08 PM PDT by Delta 21
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To: Mariner; All

If the “alt right”, normal white people or just damned normal Americans are going to do marches they are going to have to assume and be vigilant that they are going to have idiots/infiltrators in their midst that do shit like throw up the “sieg heil salute” and bust a out various flags and symbols guaranteed to give the media a hate hard on.

There was a gathering similar to the Bundy situation out near my place in NV but the first thing the rancher looking for support did when the crowd started showing up was tell every one to leave all their Gadsden flags and rifles in their trucks or go home. They ended up getting their point across and getting the gov to back off AND not providing a spectacle the media could manipulate to their advantage.

Image is everything. You have to turn on the brain and look at any public event/discourse through the lens of “how can I exploit this for the advantage of the elite and ratings” from the standpoint of a media douchebag.

All of the opposition forces have funding and plan their actions with a careful choreography. Most of their ground troops either don’t have jobs or have sympathetic employers in the grievance industries or periferal infrastructure like graphics or scented candles etc... When they field a “protest” the coverage and outcome on the news is baked in.

We on the other hand tend to have jobs making major things or “getting shit done” and we generally end up on the streets pretty spontaneously when we’re at the end of our rope. We’re easy targets for the opposition to slide in a few plants who inevitably end up being the focus of the story when the news coverage comes on.


73 posted on 08/12/2017 9:41:42 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: apoliticalone

Hovering is what helicopters do.


74 posted on 08/12/2017 9:45:34 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Axenolith

This article states that the helicopter was indeed monitoring the protests, as some have thought,

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONFEDERATE_MONUMENT_PROTEST_THE_LATEST_VAOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-08-12-15-57-21


75 posted on 08/12/2017 9:51:31 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: SoFloFreeper

They, the pilots had just dropped off McAuliffe when they were asked to surveillance the violence on the ground:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/two-state-police-troopers-killed-in-charlottesville-helicopter-crash-remembered-as-heroes/2017/08/12/099a41d0-7fd2-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.8367550e1ada


76 posted on 08/12/2017 10:03:39 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: SoFloFreeper

122 Bell Helicopter crashes since the year 2000 as of and per this article:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-robinson-helicopter-crashes-floridah-20150404-story.html


77 posted on 08/12/2017 10:14:50 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: IFly4Him

How heavy your heart must be.


78 posted on 08/13/2017 3:25:10 AM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education!)
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To: nevergore

Yeah, but he gives a “source”. ~ snicker~


79 posted on 08/13/2017 6:25:31 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Axenolith

You have a basically well-thought out commentary that is marred by your use of profane language. Please consider when you post that there are ladies present.


80 posted on 08/13/2017 6:38:16 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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