Chart below is accidental numbers world wide 1919-2023. Deliberate acts like the 9/11 attacks are excluded, because they are not accidents.
Posted on 01/30/2025 10:38:58 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom appeared to blame the Black Hawk military helicopter for the collision on Wednesday at Ronald Reagan National Airport, CNBC reported Thursday.
The helicopter collided with American Eagle flight 5342 around 9 p.m., and officials do not believe there were any survivors, according to the Associated Press (AP).
Per the CNBC report:
“At this time, we don’t know why the military aircraft came into the path of the PSA aircraft,” Isom said at a Thursday morning press conference.
PSA Airlines is an American Airlines subsidiary and one of its regional carriers. American Eagle is how American Airlines brands its regional flights.
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“We’re absolutely heartbroken for the family and loved ones of the passengers and crew members and also for those that were on the military aircraft. Our focus right now is doing everything that we can to support all of those involved and also the PSA Airlines team,” he said.
Meanwhile, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told reporters he believes the crash was preventable, according to the New York Post. “We are going to wait for all the information to come in from this vantage point. But to back up what the president said. What I’ve seen so far do I think this was preventable? Absolutely,” he commented in reference to President Donald Trump’s comments on the tragedy:
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Well, it’s pretty obvious already that it was the Army and ATC that screwed it up. The jet was exactly where it was told to be, in a left banking descent. The helo was slightly lower and off to the jet’s right, essentially under the belly of the airliner and impossible to see from the cockpit. The jet crew was not warned, but the 60 was and said they had visual contact.
None of that is the fault of the jet crew.
I want to hear a theory of what the jet crew did incorrectly or any evidence of an ATC or on-board warning they ignored.
Chart below is accidental numbers world wide 1919-2023. Deliberate acts like the 9/11 attacks are excluded, because they are not accidents.
He didn't identify where the CRJ was. That's SOP. Clearly you can see other aircraft in the area. The CRJ was told to turn into the path of the helicopter and was executing that turn. The belly of the plane was facing the helicopter.
The Urgent Call to HELO to “Return to Base” & The Chopper Strange Movements Make No Sense
Jump to 6:11
https://rumble.com/v6f3n5y-the-urgent-call-to-return-to-base-this-crash-makes-no-sense.html
Sounds about right the plane was doing everything right but the helicopter came outta no where it’s the fault of whoever was flying that copter
Probably a misstatement on your part, but the CRJ was cleared for landing on runway 33.
The 33 runway apron actually extends out into the river there & should be lit up like a Christmas tree. i.e. something to avoid if you’re not landing there
Yep. But facts are a stubborn thing in getting out of a modern news media.
The AA lawyer told him to say that.
The collision could have been worse. Note the large white colonaded building in the background and the houses in the foreground, along the shoreline. The white building is the Bolling Air Force Base Officers/all ranks Club, while the houses in the foreground are part of the base’s family housing. There are 2 or 3 streets of family housing between the shoreline street and the base exchange (PX) and commissary just east of the houses. Thankfully the route up (northward) the Potomac diverts from over I-295 at the Navy Housing area on the south edge of Bolling to over the river itself.
Info gained from 30 years working on Bolling AFB, Ft. McNair, & the Washington Navy Yard and driving I-295 nearly every day.
That doesn’t seem strange to me. Sounds like ATC did not know the helo was involved in the crash and was trying to get them out of the area.
They of course, got no answer.
What was the helicopter doing over the center of Washington anyway? If it was on some excercize from Fort Belvoir, why not fly over rural or suburban Virginia?
“Which begs the question, who designed that training program? Busy airport night training...”
To me, that is a huge question. This airport shuts down (at least scheduled flights) at night. Why not do the training a couple hours later? Or was the military complying with a restriction on hours of noise just like the airport does?
“Oh really? Just how high should he have been?”
You tell me.
It was heading south in an established Washington, DC helicopter air corridor called “Route 1”:
Hat tip to Drago for posting it in the below thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4293630/posts
Unfortunately for the victims time has run out.
Wow...
“Blackjack 3. Return to base” 7:00 on video
“I need you to land” 7:09 on video
“I need you to land immediately. Can you go to Dulles for a few minutes?” 7:13 on video.
That’s a male voice on ATC, not the female voice on other ATC recordings. The male voice says “return to base” which implies military ATC.
It looks more and more like a suicide mission.
The helicopter flew right into the plane. There’s no question.
Almost certainly this will be the case..
It’s highly unlikely that a passenger jet on final approach was not where he was supposed to be.
Most likely the helicopter was in the planes flight path.
Is this 100% certain? No, its not, but it is the most likely thing that happened.
Time will indeed tell.
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