Trump looks to assign blame for midair crash: ‘Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do?’
Trump looks to assign blame for midair crash: ‘Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do?’
Tragedy struck on Wednesday night when an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided in midair near Reagan National Airport. Sixty passengers and four crew members were aboard the plane, and three soldiers were on the helicopter. As of 1 a.m. ET, 18 bodies had been recovere...
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.
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The questions he’s asking aren’t wrong to ask. The real problem, IMO, is that he’s the president and can’t simply post those questions publicly. He’s an idiot, though, so this is what we get.
But seriously, he also asks why the Black Hawk pilot didn’t do ANYTHING to avoid a known flight path and I’ve asked the same thing.
This is the kind of stuff the "deregulate everything" crowd never seems to think about.
This dumbass is in the process of removing all enforcement of agency regulations and then this prime example of why we have rules in the first place appears
Exactly. Firing half the government would lead to outcomes like this
You mean like last time with the train accidents?
"Nooo, we don't mean those regulations, only the bad ones!"
proceeds to blindly revoke regulations
"Whoopsie!"
Why was the army running a night flight training mission in DC?
Such a crowded airspace and I'm sure the military didn't coordinate their flight plans with the local air traffic control.
You're sure? Why wouldn't they? Jumping to these types of conclusions is bad.
I wonder who was the point of contact on the FAA. Cause, if that happened to be the guy who was fired?
That said, I do realize speculation won't help. Apparently they've been overloading that airspace for a while now, allegedly just for the personal convenience of members of Congress. But of course they will find literally anybody else to blame.
It’s a valid question, but I just watched a press conference where somebody explained that these aren’t rookie pilots but pilots looking to log the proper amount of flight hours.
I agree, the military is utterly incompetent and arrogant, so this wouldn't surprise me if it's the Army's fault.
Sadly the conspiracy theorist in me asks “who was on that plane that had a hit out out against them?” Latest was saying there were Russian figure skaters on board.
I hate that my mind goes there but with this freaking administration, anything is possible.