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

The first commercial plane crash in the US since 2009. Condolences to the families who lost loved ones tonight.

Originally Posted by bsnub

The first commercial plane crash in the US since 2009. Condolences to the families who lost loved ones tonight.

Snubby you really shouldn't rush to type things without listening to them properly.

The last mass casualty plane crash in the US was in 2009

2013:



List of fatal accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft in the United States - Wikipedia

Video here.

https://x.com/i/status/1884791040890089602

Suggestions that low level helicopter flights are allowed in that area but the Blackhawk may have been too high.

Army spokesman has said the a Blackhawk was on a training exercise. WTAF.

Thank God British forces are largely safe from these incompetents for now.

Originally Posted by taxexile

probably piloted by some dumbfuck one legged DEI shoe-in

I think that may be premature , I am unaware of teh selection criteria but unidexters are seldom treated well.

I will leave you and Mike to compare chopper handling .

Originally Posted by david44

I think that may be premature .

Nothing would surprise me anymore. We, at least in the West, are living in an upside down world where merit counts for nothing. This insanity has not yet reached Thailand.

Intelligence and a thousand years of development counts for nothing, and fanatical stupidity has become a protected characteristic.

Passenger Jet Collides with Black Hawk Helicopter, Crashes into Potomac

That is the title used almost everywhere. But from the grainy footage I have seen it looks like the helicopter crashed into the plane.

Very sad and unfortunate

It is indeed. Coming up with only bodies so far.

At least 12 bodies recovered after American Eagle jet and Army helicopter collide and crash into Potomac River

Washington, D.C., plane crash live updates: Army helicopter, commercial jet collide over Potomac River

Maybe he should ask his Defence or Transportation Secretaries.

“The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport,” the president posted on Truth Social. “The helicopter was going straight at the airplane for an extended period of time. It is a CLEAR NIGHT, the lights on the plane were blazing, why didn’t the helicopter go up or down, or turn. Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane.”
“This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!” he added.

Originally Posted by misskit

Coming up with only bodies so far.

That is all they will recover at this point sadly. The Potomac is just above freezing cold this time of year. You have about thirty minutes to survive in that water if you are lucky.

pprune forum for pilots has a thread on this. possibility that copters navigation aids and transponders are not fully operative at the low altitude that it was operating in at the time of the crash.

The plane was full of ice skating teams and just a few seconds from landing safely.

RIP to all

The most fucked up thing happened last night. I was watching a program about Atlanta airport and I thought to myself, wow, there hasn't been any big air crashes in America recently. Very fucked up, very sad.

Dare I say a terrorist event.

Originally Posted by Bonecollector

Dare I say a terrorist event.

On what imaginary basis would you say that?

Originally Posted by taxexile

pprune forum for pilots has a thread on this. possibility that copters navigation aids and transponders are not fully operative at the low altitude that it was operating in at the time of the crash.

The plane was full of ice skating teams and just a few seconds from landing safely.

I'm no helicopter pilot but I think I'd notice an airport and a big fucking plane.

Originally Posted by armstrong

I'm no helicopter pilot but I think I'd notice an airport and a big fucking plane

Perhaps it would help envisage you are batman with 50 x Hinda Waves shaking you about at the speed of Stumpys 2 wheel not tortoise with no rearview mirror and the kids are movinhg at 500km per hour out of the dark.

May take a while but Trump will want black box found in his backyard pronto. He'll be hoping that one pilot was transgendered socialist illegal Cuban and the other an NZ navy style DEI hire!

There was a transcript in one of the papers that said the ATC asked the plane to use another runway. The plane ackowledged and was on the correct new approach. They had asked the chopper twice to confirm they has seen the plane but got no response then moments later bang

The Cheeto-in-Chief wasted no time in pointing fingers, blaming DEI for the disaster.

President Donald Trump read some headlines while speaking from the lectern at the White House briefing room, appearing to blame a “diversity push” at FAA without evidence for the midair collision in the Washington, DC area.
“I do want to point out that various articles that appeared prior to my entering office. And here’s one, the FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. That is amazing. And then it says FAA says people with severe disabilities are most underrepresented segment of the workforce said ‘they want them in, and they want them, they can be air traffic controllers. I don’t think so. This was January 14, so that was a week before I entered office. They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA’s program,” Trump said.