Blackhawk/Jet/Potomac

[svnmag]

God Speed. God Bless.

 

[Obi-Wan]

Airliner mid air collision with helicopter

https://www.ksn.com/news/reports-wichita-flight-collides-with-d-c-helicopter-crashes-into-river/

 

[LBrandt]

May the Lord have mercy on their souls. LB

 

[Eatsleeptrap]

People could be fighting for their lives and families lost folk and the news media is licking their chops. The worst airline disaster in decades. Looking for fault already. Why can't they just let those people heal and grieve, then report the facts? Demanding the fire chief put the dive captain in front of the camera to answer questions? He has things to do. Who the fuck do the press and news media think they are?

 

[Rowdie]

Sadly it's just a recovery. I hope they find all of them. RIP

 

[Twitch]

People could be fighting for their lives and families lost folk and the news media is licking their chops. The worst airline disaster in decades. Looking for fault already. Why can't they just let those people heal and grieve, then report the facts? Demanding the fire chief put the dive captain in front of the camera to answer questions? He has things to do. Who the fuck do the press and news media think they are?

Report the facts? Ha that’s rich. The media makes money by lying through their teeth and dividing the American people into smaller groups that are easier to sell their fear and hate to. If the American people would come together and realize that, the “representatives” in Washington and “news media” would be relegated to their original purposes instead of the monster they’ve become.

 

[SDMF]

It's hard for me to wrap my head around 67 people gone in an instant without some sort of malice intended. It sure does appear though that people were just doing what they'd done safely and as they were supposed to hundreds of times before. I can't even imagine what the ATC is going through.

Without an enemy/terrorist or "bad-guy" to blame, it makes me even sadder for the friends and families involved.

 

[Obi-Wan]

It's hard for me to wrap my head around 67 people gone in an instant without some sort of malice intended. It sure does appear though that people were just doing what they'd done safely and as they were supposed to hundreds of times before. I can't even imagine what the ATC is going through.

Without an enemy/terrorist or "bad-guy" to blame, it makes me even sadder for the friends and families involved.

When things become routine people become complacent.

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[Rowdie]

The left will blame Trump and point to cutting off funding or some other lie they manufacture, and the right will blame a DEI hire or something of the sort.

 

[Rowdie]

See, the Right won't let an opportunity go, even if the search for BODIES isn't finished.

 

[gonefshn]

The left will blame Trump and point to cutting off funding or some other lie they manufacture, and the right will blame a DEI hire or something of the sort.

I was wondering who would be the first sheep to make it political on here. How about a prayer for their families instead….

 

[bravo]

Can’t let a perfectly good tragedy go to waste.

 

[Rowdie]

My point is both sides do it, that one went over some heads I see.

 

[bravo]

I got it, I was agreeing with you.

 

[camper]

Trump did an executive order that the crash is the fault of DEI, Obama, and Biden. Haha. He’s nuts and you guys know it. Any buyers remorse yet? So let’s say in 3 years there’s another plane crash, bidens fault again? And you dumb f-cks accuse others of derangement syndrome.

 

[huntemup]

Give me 5 great things that Biden did in four years to make our country great and that was a big benefit to you. Amuse me

 

[camper]

Give me 5 great things that Biden did in four years to make our country great and that was a big benefit to you. Amuse me

WTF??? The whataboutism is terrible on this site. We went from a plane collision and crash to this? Was the crash Obama's or Biden's fault? Amuse me.

 

[Obi-Wan]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-sa...f-collision-faa/ar-AA1y9332?ocid=BingNewsSerp

An internal preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reportedly showed that the number of staff members working at the air control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, was "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic."


On Wednesday night, an American Airlines plane and Army helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, D.C., and all 67 people onboard both aircraft are presumed to be dead.

The Associated Press obtained a report which showed one air traffic controller was working two positions at the time of the crash.

Typically, the two assignments are split between two air traffic controllers, not just one.

The air control tower at Reagan airport has been understaffed for years with 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023. However, staffing targets set by the FAA and the controllers’ union call for 30.