Plane collides with Blackhawk helicopter Washington DC

[Zaphod58]

The USCG released pictures from the river. 

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

I see Trump is already playing politics about this tragedy and blaming DEI.

How sad is that?

That angry little man defines sad.

Was there a lesbian helicopter pilot? A lesbian air traffic controller? Something with an underqualified lesbian?

If it's a DEI tirade it's something along those inherently misogynistic lines... and then he'd likely drift into attacks against Biden policy for dooming us all.

He knows only one type of behavior.

This is good though. You shouldn't always be in your comfort zone or secure you have rational and sane leadership.

As far as this tragic accident goes, it reminds me of the one that crashed here in the 70s. The PSA 727 and the Cessna. Where a misidentification of the aircraft by one of the PSA pilots lead to the jet rear-ending the Cessna. Only in reverse, with the helicopter misindentifying another plane as the CRJ?

[quintessentone]

A thousand hours total is extremely low. A thousand hours in a specific platform isn't necessarily. And no pilot is going to experience everything. A long Blackhawk mission is two hours, with many of their flights being an hour or less. When you're talking short flights like that, 1,000 hours gets quite a bit of experience, and deals with quite a bit.

They're looking at human error, because a midair is always human error on some level. The question is who, and how.

That makes sense that flying the same route often certainly does make one very experienced with that one route, but does not add valuable experience in different scenarios. Now I am learning the helicopter was flying at the wrong elevation.

[sahgwa]

I see Trump is already playing politics about this tragedy and blaming DEI.

How sad is that?

He may be referring to the fact that the co-pilot was a transgender woman, I think they call them, when it is a guy transitioning to a 'girl' :



Edit to say that the main pilot, the crew chief O'Hara, also only had 1000 hours of flight time.   The co-pilot Ellis only had 500 hours.

@CaptainSteeeve
just dropped the most detailed breakdown yet of last night’s tragic mid-air collision in Washington, DC. He dissects the crash second by second, bringing expert insight as a pilot himself. His analysis makes it clear: this was NOT the fault of air traffic control or the passenger jet’s pilot. The Blackhawk helicopter acknowledged visual contact with the aircraft TWICE and took responsibility for safe navigation—yet still failed to avoid the collision.