Breaking News. Plane crash in DC. Collided with either helicopter or drone over Potomac.

[RoshawnMarkwees]

…. Which he should not be doing…..

Why not? It’s just as tangible as weather.

 

[WEATHER53]

The helicoper hit the side of the plane?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Curiouser and curiouser

 

[Road Runner]

Anyone with half a brain knows it was DEI.

Well it's highly possible at least.

Curiouser and curiouser

The moment that I heard that it took place in Washington DC my radar started going off that it was possibly intentional.

Well, at least you can admit that.

After four years he really has no excuse for being this unpresidential.

How is he being unpresidential? He said one comment about the DEI part that I can remember whereas YOU keep going on and on about it.

 

[Doc7505]

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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https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/business/faa-short-on-air-traffic-controllers/index.html

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https://www.travelpulse.com/news/airlines-airports/faa-faces-persistent-shortage-of-air-traffic-controllers-despite-hiring-surge

 

[tyroneweaver]

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[CrusaderFrank]

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I didn’t know that CNN and MSN were reporting that a helicopter and plane crashed at Reagan HOURS before the actual event

 

[Ava]

Reported that the lead pilot of the helicopter had over 1000 hours of experience.

I guess that is the definition of DEI?

Those are low hours for a lead pilot. His co-pilot, a woman, he was training, had only 500 hours. A typical amount of hours a lead pilot usually has to have is a minimum of 1500 hours. I am curious to know who was piloting at the time of the collision.

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[crossbody]

Shortly before an American Airlines regional jet and an Army helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night, the plane’s pilots were asked to pivot its landing route from one runway to another, according to a person briefed on the event and conversation overheard on audio recordings of conversations that occurred between an air traffic controller and the pilots.

American Airlines Flight 5342, which was en route to Washington from Wichita, Kan., had originally been cleared by the National Airport traffic control tower to land on the airport’s main runway, called Runway 1, the person briefed on the events and the audio recordings revealed. But in the final moments of the flight, this person and these recordings also showed, the jet pilot was asked by air traffic control to instead make a circle landing on a separate, intersecting runway, Runway 33.

 

[crossbody]

When we say conspiracy, set up, smells like-looks like, etc... We just know it right away.

As Trump says it was a "clear" night.

 

[excalibur]

I've read that some pilots refuse to switch to 33. Forces a tight turn after they prepare for 1.

 

[Ava]

The helicopter hit the side of the plane?

That was what I heard also. Late today.

 

[Delldude]

Eerily similar how boat just glided into bridge and helo into plane

C'mon.

 

[braalian]

Well it's highly possible at least.




The moment that I heard that it took place in Washington DC my radar started going off that it was possibly intentional.




How is he being unpresidential? He said one comment about the DEI part that I can remember whereas YOU keep going on and on about it.

Because it’s a major news story, involving the deaths of dozens and dozens of people whose families are still in shock and grieving and he’s speculating wildly AT A PRESS CONFERENCE in his capacity as PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

His job in these situations is to get the American people to calm the fuck down, and he’s throwing gas on the fire with random conspiracy theories before the investigation has even begun.

Of course it’s unpresidential.

If you really don’t understand that, you should probably stop talking about anything remotely political because it’s obvious you’re not well informed or particularly well educated and you should stick to stuff like soap operas and hallmark movies and topics more your speed.

I’m honestly a little baffled why you’re here creating posts and threads about politics and world affairs when it’s clear you don’t know much about any of that and don’t seem particularly interested

 

[crossbody]

Makes you wonder if the military jet was "EVER" told about the change, hmmm, of course not. All done to shame America, show fault being America. Now who would plot something evil like that???

Operation Democrat Revenge:
1. EV's blowing up (dead bodies)

2. Open AI (Nvidia stock) sabotaged by China's DeepSeek, just so happens Nancy Pelosi had just sold all of her Nvidia stock - how convenient.

3. Russian professional ice skaters killed in a last minute highly suspicious lane-change flight (dead bodies)

 

[braalian]

Why not? It’s just as tangible as weather.

He shouldn’t be speculating about the cause of the accident in any way, shape or form

Especially in a fucking press conference where his only role as president is to express condolences, assure that it’s being investigated and then turn the mic over to the actual experts with actual expertise

That’s what presidents do in these situations

He’s treating it like it’s a fucking social media post

 

[MisterBeale]

Can ANY of you trump humpers just admit that trump 'immediately' bringing up DEI is embarrassing, not Presidential, and Irresponsible.

I'm not a Trump humper, but yeah, I'd say that bringing up DEI is inappropriate and embarrassing, were it not for the policies of the last administration.

No one denies that the Biden admis.' first priority was hiring based on DEI, not on whether a person was qualified or could do the job.

. . . what, you think Kamala was actually good at the position she was in other than casting tie-breaking partisan votes?


If Trump's picks fail? I will bet that you will be among the first to whine that they were never qualified in the first place.

Air traffic controller was doing the job of two people during DC plane crash due to tower being understaffed, FAA says​

Air traffic controller was doing the job of two people during DC plane crash due to tower being understaffed, FAA says

The air traffic controller working at the time of the deadly plane-helicopter crash in Washington was doing the work of two people, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

nypost.com

https://www.faa.gov/be-atc

 

[dudmuck]

Anyone with half a brain knows it was DEI.

 

[MisterBeale]

Curiouser and curiouser

It would be nice to see what the passenger manifest had recorded about those who were killed.

A good way to confirm this "CT" is to find out that type of information.

It was a clear smoking gun for 911. Not that we could know much. . . the spooks can back engineer thing to fit any narrative.

9/11 Misinformation: Flight 'Passenger Lists' Show 'No Hijacker Names' - 911Truth.Org

The assertion that 9/11 passengers lists “contained no Arab names” is frequently seen in the 9/11 truth movement. In fact, the U.S. Government withheld the actual passenger lists for years.

911truth.org

The only thing I could come up with on suspicious passengers. . . possibly? Is if those figure skaters were spies?

Passenger jet collides with US Army Black Hawk: As it happened

There are no survivors in the collision, US President Donald Trump confirmed

rurtnews.com