Posted on 12/18/2025 9:51:08 AM PST by Third Person
The U.S. government admitted Wednesday that the actions of an air traffic controller and Army helicopter pilots played a role in causing the Jan. 29 collision between an airliner and a Black Hawk near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people, including a group of elite young figure skaters.
It was the deadliest plane crash on American soil in more than two decades. The figure skaters, their parents and coaches who had just attended the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, were among those on the plane.
The official response, made in court documents responding to the first lawsuit filed by one of the victims' families, said the government is liable in the crash partly because the air traffic controller violated visual separation procedures that night. Plus, the filing said, the Army helicopter pilots' "failure to maintain vigilance so as to see and avoid" the airline jet makes the government liable.
But the filing suggested that others, including the pilots of the jet and the airlines, might also have played a role. The lawsuit also blamed American Airlines and its regional partner, PSA Airlines, for roles in the crash, but those airlines have filed motions to dismiss.
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It was the DEI Army...
That’s a weird headline.
Most of us know about it, but skaters wasn’t first and foremost, but rather Washington DC and the US Army flying too close to the airport.
ESPN looking for an angle to report the story.
That was January 29, 9 days after Trump took power.
And the helicopter pilot was some woman who used to work at Biden White House.
I’d say it was a Biden regime problem.
And what’s ESPN doing reporting on old plane crashes with slanted headlines anyway?
No sports today?
On the subject of aviation, anyone else hear about NASCAR’s Greg Biffle Citation crash? No word yet if he was onboard.
“And what’s ESPN doing reporting on old plane crashes with slanted headlines anyway?”
New news from yesterday. What’s with posting without understanding the OP?
The entire family was aboard... Very sad.
And I know, they don't admit that standards are lower. But what happens is there is systemic pressure to water-down negative marks and grades, and the result is that errors and mistakes by DEI personnel get played down or simply glossed over. Someone fails, so you give them multiple additional shots to get it right rather than simply concluding that they aren't cut out for that role.
“Everybody understands the OP.”
Then why did you ask?
I “asked” about the OP?
Where was that?
“I “asked” about the OP?
Where was that?”
Your #5
The Biden regime would never have made such an admission
Post said it was an old plane crash -—— correct.
Slanted headlines -—— correct.
Probably not.
Politically connected DEI lesbian who was barely qualified after a long rotation of White House escort duty (which she also got for being a lesbo). Assigned to a plum flying job most Army pilots don’t have a shot at.
A long series of baboon style wide open mouth photos in the cockpit.
She was a clown in a DEI outfit, and killed an airliner full of people.
The Army put someone like that in goggles, at night, flying through that approach.
Maybe a report is out on the crash. They take months, or years, to conduct investigations.
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