In the end the pilot is in control of the helicopter. No trained person needs to be told that he is about to hit a visible plane.
Was it visible though. https://www.tmz.com/2025/01/31/retired-army-pilot-possible-helicopter-never-saw-plane-dc-crash/
Its a high paying job just sitting on your ass all day.I don't understand why there are so many shortages.
Even more negligent for the helicopter to be flying above the required height if there is a possibility of poor vision. Army has to answer for this accident that should have never happened. There is no excuse for the helicopter to be that high crossing an active runway approach. I look forward to Secy Hesgeth statement.
To be fair staffing is a red herring....military helicopters should not be crossing an active runway approach. Look at the map, they were too high and too far into the river.
So mr dickwad trump goes on truth social and states confidently the crash was caused by the helicopter being too high...its.common sense! "The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That’s not really too complicated to understand, is it???" Trump said in a Truth Social post. So......now it wasn't DEI......it was white pilot error....and all of you still defending him...
Trump said he was using "common sense" when he blamed Obama, Biden, Air Traffic Controllers with possible disabilities (DEI) in that White House briefing about the crash that was televised to all of America. Now that he's changed his mind and is blaming the helicopter pilot at his social media platform...he'll never apologize to the American public. Anyways, the investigation is still ongoing and I knew it would come to this but why is he still quick to play the blame game instead of just waiting for the investigation to complete now that they have recovered all the black data boxes from the water. I hoped he doesn't plan on giving his "radical error filled guesses" live on TV to America about what he thinks happened in the Philadelphia Medevac plane crash. Oddly, some of those defending Trump initial guesses on the cause of the crash (e.g. Obama, Biden, and DEI)...some of these idiots just last year blamed plane crashes on pilots (e.g. pilots suddenly dropping dead at the cockpit of their airplanes resulting in plane crashes) who were Covid vaccinated even though they knew nothing about the vaccination status of the pilots. Reminder - The same idiots blamed the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on the female secret service (DEI) even though there were male secret service there too...eventually the top dog director of the secret service (a woman named Kimberly Cheatle) was forced to resign. P.S. I'm still crossing my fingers that we will not have another Pandemic during this Trump administration. They've and their followers have already shown the same shit show will repeat. wrbtrader
Yes but you went awfully quiet on condemning him for saying such shit within hours of 64 people dying including women and children.... I guess it was ok for you to blame DEI and then it was OK for trump to blame it on the helicopter and not account for his statement before... You didnt say it was a heartless thing to say, you said, nah DEI not the cause. No shit sherlock, we all know it was not the cause except for Magass Dont act like you are not swallowing this whole....every president both DEM and GOP have visited crash sites or taken some action and trump asked "You want me to go swimming?"