[News] American Airlines flight from Wichita Kansas to Reagan National Airport has crashed into the Potomac River

Eeyore · 2025-01-30T09:29:48+0000

RandyWanger said:
Might need to stay away from X, lots of 'experts' out there. One thing did catch my eye though if you go down a rabbit hole of conspiracies:

"Safe, Reliable, and Uninhabited: Autonomous BLACK HAWK® Helicopter"

I take great pleasure in not being part of that or Facebook anymore. I saw that video and I don't trust it.

It's a horrible tragedy and US senior politicians would serve well to keep wise their counsel. The investigators will come to the proper conclusions.

Looking at it in the BBC, it rather seems it could have been even worse had the plane been full. No-one will survive that.

RIP

Albion my Albion · 2025-01-30T09:30:49+0000

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Chicken Run · 2025-01-30T09:34:19+0000

Eeyore said:
Looking at it in the BBC, it rather seems it could have been even worse had the plane been full. No-one will survive that.

RIP

The CRJ 701 has capacity for 70 passengers, it was pretty full!

Eeyore · 2025-01-30T09:36:32+0000

Chicken Run said:
The CRJ 701 has capacity for 70 passengers, it was pretty full!

Apologies. It was an AA aircraft. My mind always assumes like a 737 or something.

dazzer6666 · 2025-01-30T09:37:23+0000

Bozza said:

There’s a detailed and plausible explanation in reply to that post…….

Awful thing to happen

Greg Bobkin · 2025-01-30T09:37:35+0000

mikeyjh said:
Trump has forgotten he's now president:-
"The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport," Trump wrote.

"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!!!"

Eh? That's EXACTLY how he would respond as president. Surely you've not forgot some of the batshit stuff he said and posted last time around?

FCB · 2025-01-30T10:05:30+0000

junior said:
I wonder if Trump is suggesting the helicopter was flown into the airplane on purpose?

I'm not a conspiracy theorist and far from an expert but thought about that as well when watching this video.

Bozza · 2025-01-30T10:21:31+0000

dazzer6666 said:
There’s a detailed and plausible explanation in reply to that post…….

Awful thing to happen

This one, presumably.

Deadly Danson · 2025-01-30T10:23:08+0000

Unsurprising that Trump has reacted like an idiotic small child. Equally unsurprising that a lot of those posing conspiracy theories are from Trump supporters (i.e morons). Chances are the helicopter operating on a visual separation basis just misjudged the situation but I'm sure the investigation will clear it up in time.

Gazwag · 2025-01-30T10:27:16+0000

Chicken Run said:
Fair point but the person to the left of the pilot would have been experienced and would very quickly take control

I quite agree, you would certainly have thought so

Chicken Run · 2025-01-30T12:08:20+0000

Gazwag said:
I quite agree, you would certainly have thought so

Watching the various videos there is a small part of me that is starting to think, well you know

beorhthelm · 2025-01-30T12:38:22+0000

Bozza said:
This one, presumably.

hindsight etc, i'd have thought pretty obvious the plane is heading for the airport, so bear away from that.

i heard some audio this morning, ATC was repeatedly telling the helicopter to change course, return to base, but was unresponsive. expecting radio failure to come out as main cause.

Man of Harveys · 2025-01-30T12:55:19+0000

No survivors expected

US Seagull · 2025-01-30T13:13:50+0000

mikeyjh said:
Trump has forgotten he's now president:-
"The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport," Trump wrote.

"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!!!"

Most presidents, people even, would start by expressing sorrow and sympathy for the victims and their families.

Trump is not most presidents. Or most people, even.

Also, I'm sure it's not a result of this, but you know if the shoe was on the other foot:

Gazwag · 2025-01-30T13:29:56+0000

beorhthelm said:
hindsight etc, i'd have thought pretty obvious the plane is heading for the airport, so bear away from that.

i heard some audio this morning, ATC was repeatedly telling the helicopter to change course, return to base, but was unresponsive. expecting radio failure to come out as main cause.

Seems no radio issues

Duffy is also asked about communication between the helicopter, the commercial plane and flight control - he says there was no breakdown in communication between the military helicopter and the American Airline flight.

"The helicopter was aware that there was a plane in the area," he says.

Chicken Run · 2025-01-30T13:39:50+0000

US Seagull said:
Most presidents, people even, would start by expressing sorrow and sympathy for the victims and their families.

Trump is not most presidents. Or most people, even.

Also, I'm sure it's not a result of this, but you know if the shoe was on the other foot:

Not that i use X or blue sky but i thought blue sky wasn’t meant to be political?

Springal · 2025-01-30T13:47:50+0000

Albion my Albion said:
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Russian figure skaters Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov

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NS Herald · 2025-01-30T15:03:04+0000

Sadly this was a case of 'when' and not 'if'.

US near miss incidents have been far too frequent in recent 18 months or so with poor procedures and communications. Unless things change dramatically and quickly there is a good chance of another.

AstroSloth · 2025-01-30T15:30:09+0000

US Seagull said:
Most presidents, people even, would start by expressing sorrow and sympathy for the victims and their families.

Trump is not most presidents. Or most people, even.

Also, I'm sure it's not a result of this, but you know if the shoe was on the other foot:

It's even more than that apparently

dwayne · 2025-01-30T15:38:25+0000

AstroSloth said:
It's even more than that apparently

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