Summary
An American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair near Reagan National Airport, killing at least 18 people.
Trump initially expressed condolences but later questioned why the air traffic control tower or helicopter pilot didn’t prevent the crash.
The FAA identified the plane as a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700.
A Kennedy Center webcam captured the collision, and investigations are ongoing.
CNN’s Pete Muntean called the incident stunning, noting its proximity to a military base.
I mean, we all know already that the control tower DID tell the helicopter what to do. How come HE doesn’t know that?
BIDEN put the WINDMILLS in REVERSE… and that blew the copter against the plane. SAD.
A reminder of what a presidential attitude used to be :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_passing#"The_buck_stops_here"
The pictured President is one of those lazy left wingers who doesn’t want to work.
I saw some of the press conference with the people investigating (it was on the news while getting ready for work) and one of the questions asked to them was this statement made by our glorious leader and I laughed. I laughed because it’s absolutely the complete opposite of how to handle this type of situation. As someone from his background, you would think he knows never to make any statements about anything until you have the clear picture first. What he did will just cause more headaches for people actually doing their jobs now and feel bad they even have to deal with Mr. Wildcard, creating more havoc for them than they need.
I don’t work in public facing affairs, but even internally it’s known you don’t make any statements to anyone outside your department regarding serious issues because every word can be taken the wrong way unless worded properly. If it’s something serious, you consult as a team, and someone approves the statement sent out.
Is the control tower also ran by illegal Mexican immigrants Donald?
In the press conference he’s trying to pin it on DEI. Disgusting behaviour.
Illegal immigrants too busy doing fentenyl and black people smoking PCP.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SXfzj-oKmtY
Probably what led to this horrible situation
Ok, I’m sure it’s because of incompetence but I do have to say it’s weird AF that there was also a contingent of Russian civilians on the plane and that this involved a military helicopter. Granted, they were figure skaters, but my brain was like “Man, Putin must really hate those figure skaters” when I heard about this over the radio.
But again, it’s likely incompetence— even if you have to be at just the right altitude at just the wrong time to cause a mid air crash.
The bodies ain’t cold yet and trump will already assign blame. Fuck actual investigation, who cares what really happened?
Also, he probably wants to preempt things like realmfacts that might implicate his own government
It’s amazing how he always seems to have “the answer” AFTER something bad happens. But never the foresight to make changes before tragedy strikes.
Captain Hindsight, but wrong
Republicans would have blamed Biden without a second thought, so I’m going to blame Trump for this.
If Biden was firing every government worker he could and then such a rare event happened, involving a military helicopter in DC, it would be fair to blame him. Not when it’s trump tho! /s
Well, he’s gone out of his way to sow chaos in every area of government including transportation. I would not be surprised if his actions did lead in some way to this tragedy.
I would be surprised if it did not.
This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented.
Too true, Donald, too true. I’ve been saying that a lot lately.
To be clear I think this one is a coincidence. The next ones are probably not…
Unless it comes out that the 3 people on the helicopter were newbies that only has that position because of trump.
I know it’s a coincidence but I’m still going to blame trump because that’s exactly what Trump did when Biden was president. He got on Twitter or whatever and blamed every single bad thing that happened in this country on Biden. Trump deserves the same treatment if not worse.
Dumb oligarch in power, shoots self in foot
Shoots others in foot. Nothing happened to Elon or Trump.
Pretty sure his foot isn’t one of the people that died
From their perspective, it is. They now have to deal with a pesky scandal over dead people they couldn’t care less about.
What makes you think they care about a scandal?
Well they won’t exactly, but they will get asked about it enough to feel annoyed
Maybe don’t have training flights at night into one of the most congested airports in the country?
I dont know how often they run there but I wouldnt be surprised if the cheeto said he wanted all kinds of mil practice in the area after he couldnt have a huge mil parade where he waived at them in the last term, but this is just me jumping to conclusions.
Such a shame it wasn’t AF1.
First of all, fuck you. Never wish a crash on anybody. Lives were lost.
Secondly, I believe AF1 carries an additional TFR to prevent that (although I’m not familiar with the SFRA)
TFR doesn’t really mean shit if you can navigate a small drone into the flight path of the plane
Fair, but as apolitical as possible, I find it hard to believe that any escorts wouldn’t take out the drone if POTUS is on board. Regardless of who that may be
no, fuck you and af1
Nah, fuck you.
Regardless of if President Doofus were involved in the crash or not, we would have lost helicopter pilots OR people on a civilian aircraft.
If you think helicopter pilots or civilians dying is okay, you are a terrible human being.
Okay call me a terrible human being I’m not gonna be shedding too many tears over the death of any member of the US army.
Eh, I do feel bad about it.
The military as an organization sucks, but not everyone in it is the “just following orders” SS type of goon. For a lot of people, especially from underserved communities of color, it is one of the only available routes out of poverty when education and job opportunities are inaccessible.
This is by design, I have to imagine, to ensure the US military always has a steady stream of warm bodied volunteers. And they get people young, too, setting up recruiters in high schools to recruit teenagers who have no idea what they’re signing up for and are told they have no better options.
You are a terrible human being.
Thanks.
it did happen. it could have happened to somebody better.
Like I said in another comment, you can end the fascist line without innocent lives if you are going to rewind history.
And the author of the time line should probably put Die Fuhrer Musk into the mix.
Very true, just look at Hitler and Mussolini, famously defeated by strongly worded letters and no bloodshed
I was thinking more like a certain a super Mario brother
This was pilot deviation or pilot error for the helicopter. They were instructed to maintain visual separation and to cross behind the CRJ and then just didn’t.
Edit: The issue was also that they reported CRJ in sight. If they couldn’t find the CRJ, ATC should have routed them on a safe path. But they reported in sight.
Do you have any links to sources on this? I see a lot of people speaking authoritatively on this here but no links to sources.
I don’t have a link, but the conversation with ATC is online.
Check out VAS aviation on YouTube
