Thread: Passenger Jet Collides with Black Hawk Helicopter, Crashes into Potomac

Originally Posted by armstrong

No it's not.

Are you going to try and explain it to him or shall we leave it to snubby?

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Over half of voters voted for him. Thats how it works.

Not only did he not get 50% of the vote, his 1.5% margin in the popular vote, was one of the smallest in history.
But in MAGA world, ReTrumplicans continue to spew the tired bullshit line that it was a “landslide.“

Wasnt talking about the popular vote, thats not how Americans elect their presidents.

“The formal vote in the Electoral College went as projected. Trump won 312 votes, and Kamala Harris won 226”

https://www.cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Wasnt talking about the popular vote, thats not how Americans elect their presidents.

“The formal vote in the Electoral College went as projected. Trump won 312 votes, and Kamala Harris won 226”

https://www.cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers

I’m American, so despite the obvious intellectual limitations that come with that,
I am aware of how the electoral process works.

Yes, he won EC, but his margin of victory was one of the lowest in the last 50 years.
And again, he didn’t even receive 50% of the vote.
So, when the fat fuck says he won in a landslide, he’s lying through his Cheeto-crusted teeth.

Originally Posted by beachbound

And again, he didn’t even receive 50% of the vote.
.

You kept saying that. Wasn’t it 49.3 % or something like that? Near enough to 50%

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Near enough

If you’re tossing horseshoes or hand grenades, yes.
Elections? No

The wreckage of a military helicopter involved in a mid-air collision with a passenger jet that killed all 67 people on both aircraft was recovered Thursday from the Potomac River, federal officials said.

Additional parts were also recovered from the American Airlines plane that was bound for Reagan National Airport when it struck the UH-60 Black Hawk on Jan. 29, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement.

The wreckage recovered Thursday will be offloaded to a barge and taken to a secure location. The effort to find the right engine and tail rotor from the Black Hawk continues, the agency said.

The development came two days after officials said they had recovered all 67 victims, including many on the plane who were returning from a training camp that followed the 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas.

U.S. Figure Skating said that 28 people on board the flight were connected to the sport.
The helicopter had three on board and was on a training mission from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, officials have said.

The NTSB is working to determine the cause of the collision.

The agency said Tuesday that the air traffic control display showed that at the time of the collision, the helicopter appeared to be flying at 300 feet, or 100 feet above the 200 foot ceiling generally required under federal aviation rules.

The board said it needed additional information from the Black Hawk wreckage to verify its flight track data.

The plane's two "black boxes" — a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder — were recovered and are being evaluated at a lab, the NTSB said last week.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ver-rcna191127