Tend to agree with that. Everybody is saying that the staff at the tower of control was not adequate.
I have heard that the FAA is something like 3000 air controllers short overall nationwide from their optimum staffing quotas. Something is wrong.
Just as LA was way short of firemen and firetrucks and people reported trying to sign up to be firemen and being TURNED AWAY because they were white and told to come back in 7 YEARS. Then 7 years later when he reapplied, he met a black person there signing up and asked them when THEY applied, and they told him last WEEK.
Just as our military is way short of their recruitment goals.
ONE OTHER THING - just throwing this out there as a curious fact: isn't it amazing that in critically crowded DC that a medium sized jet and a blackhawk could collide in mid air, both crash to the ground, and not a single bystander injured nor killed, not a single building damaged? What are the odds? The collision happened right over the Potomac River, the one place it could happen without landing on anything--- not even a boat.
LASTLY - they landed in only 7 feet of water, the NTSB is right down the street. You can stand in that. You don't get much better situations than that. No deep ocean, no mountains, no inaccessible terrain, no remote location. The first thing you do in these cases (other than do search and rescue) is RECOVER THE BLACK BOXES. I find it odd that 24 hours after the collision, they had not even gone after those yet. They gotta be RIGHT THERE, just below the surface or even above the water in the tail.
VERY LASTLY - where is the military spokesman in all of this? Every indicator is that it was the Blackhawk which flew into the jet. The jet was on approach, landing, all eyes forward toward the runway. Jets have notoriously bad side vision. Helicopters are slow moving and have excellent vision all around. How is it that the military was not in radio contact with the three soldiers or doesn't have the onboard data flight and cockpit recorders yet?
ABSOLUTE LASTLY - the air controllers have a system (TCAS) which identifies vehicles on dangerous or collision flight paths, most jets have detection systems as well. Where were all these systems last night? How is it that no one saw this collision coming until the very last second or that the Blackhawk was even on a conflicting flight path with a commercial jet? I mean, they were both assigned the same altitude at the same time! Had the helicopter just been 100-200 feet higher or lower, there would have been no collision.
Something is being covered up here.
As usual.
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