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

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Yea, in that case it was deliberate. In the current case, it was incompetence on a number of levels: the incompetent pilot who was flying too low as she neared a busy airport in the dark, the incompetent suoervisor who allowed the flight control tower to be woefully understaffed, and the Obama regime that insisted on a specific ratio based on race and thus white applications were tossed in the trash.

Quota hiring results in incompetence, no question. That’s pure logic.
But I’m withholding judgment on that in this case until more is known.
What is definite is that the helicopter was in clear violation of altitude restrictions and should have been aware regardless of ATC incompetence.

 

[Delldude]

So 90 hours behind the wheel a year qualifies one to fly in the dark in a crowded airspace where jets are 30 seconds from landing at a difficult airport?

Scary shit.

Saw an article earlier where an ex Blackhawk pilot said you need 1000 hours to fly one. Said she shouldn't have been flying at all.

Seems her daddy is rather well connected to the medical community also............as in real well connected. Might be how she got in the WH.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

River appears to be pretty shallow in the crash area.

 

[JoeB131]

Saw an article earlier where an ex Blackhawk pilot said you need 1000 hours to fly one. Said she shouldn't have been flying at all.

Seems her daddy is rather well connected to the medical community also............as in real well connected. Might be how she got in the WH.

How do you get 1000 hours without flying? You didn't think this through at all, did you?

Nope, she got into the WH because she was an outstanding officer, graduating in the top 20% of ROTC cadets that year.

 

[Delldude]

How do you get 1000 hours without flying?

Easy, you get your experience in other type aircraft before they let you fly a $5.9 million dollar helo........

Nope, she got into the WH because she was an outstanding officer, graduating in the top 20% of ROTC cadets that year.

Daddy was well connected.

 

[JoeB131]

Easy, you get your experience in other type aircraft before they let you fly a $5.9 million dollar helo

I'm guessing you were never in the military, or you wouldn't say such stupid shit.

Daddy was well connected.

Funny thing about the Army. Unless you are Jennifer Pritzker, no one care who your daddy is. (Look it up.)

 

[Delldude]

I'm guessing you were never in the military, or you wouldn't say such stupid shit.

What did you do, fly a desk?

The BLACK HAWK Pilot Initial Qualification Course is intended for current qualified commercial helicopter pilots with instrument rating, or military equivalent, with no prior BLACK HAWK helicopter qualifications.

She could've gone WO but never would fly a BH until she got the prerequisite hours.

 

[JoeB131]

What did you do, fly a desk?

The BLACK HAWK Pilot Initial Qualification Course is intended for current qualified commercial helicopter pilots with instrument rating, or military equivalent, with no prior BLACK HAWK helicopter qualifications.

She could've gone WO but never would fly a BH until she got the prerequisite hours.

She was on a training flight for night qualification and she had 500 hours...

This was a qualified pilot.

(I served, which is probably more than you can say.)

 

[Delldude]

She was on a training flight for night qualification and she had 500 hours...

The minimum......................she was a cherry pilot.

This was a qualified pilot.

Looked pretty qualified taking out a RJ with 60 souls on board.

(I served, which is probably more than you can say.)

So you were a qualified helo pilot or just a desk jockey?

 

[Bell Huey]

She was on a training flight for night qualification and she had 500 hours...

This was a qualified pilot.

(I served, which is probably more than you can say.)

I served as well, as a flight crew member and I did a tour in that particular unit.

500 Hours is a qualified pilot but not very experienced. You graduate with close to 200 from flight school. ANd in that particular unit 500 was very low. While fine for a regular unit most of the pilots there were very experienced.

But shit changes.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Yea, in that case it was deliberate. In the current case, it was incompetence on a number of levels: the incompetent pilot who was flying too low as she neared a busy airport in the dark, the incompetent suoervisor who allowed the flight control tower to be woefully understaffed, and the Obama regime that insisted on a specific ratio based on race and thus white applications were tossed in the trash.

Is that what the official investigative report says?

 

[Lisa558]

Is that what the official investigative report says?

They are all FACTS.

1) The pilot went out of her flight zone a few hundred feet away from where commercial air traffic were approaching landing, at a very busy airport, and in the dark

2) The supervisor did allow an employee to go home, forcing a remaining employee to cover the job of two controllers

3) Obama did instruct the FAA to limit white hires in order to achieve a “better” ratio of blacks to whites

 

[Superbadbrutha]

They are all FACTS.

1) The pilot went out of her flight zone a few hundred feet away from where commercial air traffic were approaching landing, at a very busy airport, and in the dark

2) The supervisor did allow an employee to go home, forcing a remaining employee to cover the job of two controllers

3) Obama did instruct the FAA to limit white hires in order to achieve a “better” ratio of blacks to whites

Please post the policy that Pres Obama issued to the FAA to limit the number of whites that are hired.

So if you get sick on your job are you allowed to leave?

I will wait for the report from the folks who are actually INVESTIGATING the accident.

 

[Lisa558]

Please post the policy that Pres Obama issued to the FAA to limit the number of whites that are hired.

It’s part of the lawsuit. Look it up yourself.

So if you get sick on your job are you allowed to leave?

If a person has a life-or-death job, then a competent management has contingency plans in place for such emergencies.

I will wait for the report from the folks who are actually INVESTIGATING the accident.

Good. But it is quite reasonable to question whether the leftists’ racist policies played a role.

 

[Delldude]

I will wait for the report from the folks who are actually INVESTIGATING the accident.

Preliminary findings can be found on the NTSB website.

 

[Delldude]

Please post the policy that Pres Obama issued to the FAA to limit the number of whites that are hired.

Scrutiny over the FAA's hiring policies was raised years before Wednesday's accident near Reagan National Airport.

A major class-action lawsuit has been filed against the federal agency over claims that applications for air traffic controllers were rejected based on race.

The original lawsuit was filed on behalf of Andrew Brigida, who claimed the FAA under the Obama administration dropped a skill-based system for hiring air traffic controllers (ATCs) and replaced it with a "biographical assessment," which was allegedly used to attract more minority applicants.

Brigida, who is white and scored 100 percent on his training exam, said he was discriminated against because of his race when his application was rejected.

In January 2014, Brigida received an email informing him that the FAA was "implementing changes to improve and streamline" the hiring process for air traffic controllers and that his application was "impacted" by these changes, according to William Perry Pendley, an attorney and president of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, the firm handling the lawsuit.

The Mountain States Legal Foundation is representing hundreds of people from different racial backgrounds who say they were discriminated against under the FAA's hiring policy.

Did FAA reject air traffic controllers based on race? What we know

The federal agency is facing a major class action lawsuit of alleged discriminatory hiring polices during the Obama administration.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Superbadbrutha]

It’s part of the lawsuit. Look it up yourself.

You love to throw out garbage and then you can't back it up.

If a person has a life-or-death job, then a competent management has contingency plans in place for such emergencies.

Yea they call someone in to take their place.

Good. But it is quite reasonable to question whether the leftists’ racist policies played a role.

Question all you like, but since you aren't a part of the investigative team you don't know WTF happened.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Preliminary findings can be found on the NTSB website.

The FINAL findings will tell the story.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Scrutiny over the FAA's hiring policies was raised years before Wednesday's accident near Reagan National Airport.

A major class-action lawsuit has been filed against the federal agency over claims that applications for air traffic controllers were rejected based on race.

The original lawsuit was filed on behalf of Andrew Brigida, who claimed the FAA under the Obama administration dropped a skill-based system for hiring air traffic controllers (ATCs) and replaced it with a "biographical assessment," which was allegedly used to attract more minority applicants.

Brigida, who is white and scored 100 percent on his training exam, said he was discriminated against because of his race when his application was rejected.

In January 2014, Brigida received an email informing him that the FAA was "implementing changes to improve and streamline" the hiring process for air traffic controllers and that his application was "impacted" by these changes, according to William Perry Pendley, an attorney and president of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, the firm handling the lawsuit.

The Mountain States Legal Foundation is representing hundreds of people from different racial backgrounds who say they were discriminated against under the FAA's hiring policy.

Did FAA reject air traffic controllers based on race? What we know

The federal agency is facing a major class action lawsuit of alleged discriminatory hiring polices during the Obama administration.

www.newsweek.com

Post the ACTUAL policy.

 

[Delldude]

The FINAL findings will tell the story.

NTSB releases initial findings daily.

Post the ACTUAL policy.

Executive Order 13583-- Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce

EXECUTIVE ORDER ESTABLISHING A COORDINATED GOVERNMENT-WIDE INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE

obamawhitehouse.archives.gov