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Hagbard Celine

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  1. former blackhawk pilot says 3 holes in the cheese: 1 - POLICY ERROR: the mh-60 was down a crew member - should have had 4 not 3 crew - specifically should have a 2nd crew chief to clear visual on both sides 2 - PILOT ERROR: mh-60 was supposed to be at 200 feet not 350+ where the collision occurred - was this a result of using night vision? 3 - ATC ERROR: dca tower did not ask MH-60 if they had the rj at 5'oclock - mh-60 field of view (forward) is prima-facie they were looking at the wrong plane when responded affirmative that they had the traffic they needed to avoid - new collision video proves this - zero evasive maneuvers at all +++ not voiced by the ex-pilot is the known tasking issue with 1 not 2 assigned controllers to the event in the dca tower https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/us/video/black-hawk-helicopter-pilot-elizabeth-mccormick-plane-crash-digvid
  2. collision video cnn claiming as exclusive https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/us/video/american-airline-plane-crash-washington-exclusive-video-ldn-digvid
  3. also, iirc a chief warrant officer rank is for someone that trains others in their job
  4. ability to edit above post expired, should have read like this: at 5am bbc reported the below; US MSM media remains silent 4 hours later atlanta journal constitution named o'hara yesterday afternoon but CNN BASED IN ATLANTA has an embargo on both names, pics, etc. https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/gwinnett-high-school-grad-among-soldiers-killed-in-dc-crash/H2QMATWGIRHKPN6ML3Q63HE2YA/ Ryan O'Hara Ryan O'Hara, 29, was the crew chief of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with the passenger plane, according to CBS News. He leaves behind a wife and one-year-old son, his local Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program said in a social media post confirming his death. O'Hara is "fondly remembered as a guy who would fix things around the ROTC gym as well as a vital member of the rifle team," the post said. Ryan O'Hara Andrew Eaves Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves confirmed that Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Eaves was killed in the collision. Paying tribute to her husband, Carrie Eaves confirmed he was one of the pilots of the Blackhawk helicopter. "We ask that you pray for our family and friends and for all the other families that are suffering today. We ask for peace while we grieve," she wrote on social media. Andrew Eaves:
  5. here's a great summary of the overall faa/atc situation: https://viewfromthewing.com/collision-on-final-approach-sparks-dei-blame-game-the-faas-real-air-traffic-control-crisis-runs-much-deeper/#respond
  6. that's another field that should be shut down other than for emergency use or daylight unlimited visibility use for the aircraft industry businesses on site (like the museum that's there)
  7. the discussion for rational, sane people is going to be in this thread you should go ahead and just move this to cr and please re-label it as "CR DCA mid-air collision thread" or something like that rather than try to title it as something it's not
  8. psa to the maga in here: do not read the comments to that bsky post they will possibly endanger your health
  9. this was posted just a few hours before the crash https://viewfromthewing.com/almost-no-one-can-fly-private-at-washingtons-dca-airport-yet-this-newly-elected-senator-jets-in-and-out-daily/#respond
  10. i'll wager that's what happened we do not have a supercomputer/AI capability which takes all of the TCAS and ADS-B data and projects forward in time - all it does is render on screens and humans have to interpret it this is a perfect opportunity for doge to get a win so he who must not be insulted can spike the football
  11. it wasn't full ads-b transponder signal evident on all the tracking sites no one can fly dark in the dca zone too many links too much to post but search this string if you want to deepdive: <TSA DCA Access Standard Security Program>
  12. our airspace control is a joke and has been for decades we've been faafo for 10 years and had 15 near-misses in the past 2 years 3 were DCA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_aircraft_near-miss_incidents_since_2023 the canadians got religion 10 years ago and fixed their shit clinton, shrub and obama had 2 terms and this is on them https://reason.org/aviation-policy-news/faa-needs-more-than-funding-to-fix-aging-systems/#a this is comedy gold:
  13. no - that's dead on - team turnip is probably actually only about 38-42% our side lost because our party thought we could slam-dunk taking the high road and got out-socialed the intelligent aware objective and enlightened caucus is probably less than 15% the 30% in the middle were easily winnable and in hindsight the dems punted on 1st down
  14. try 40 years
  15. somehow, i think you would bitch about it if i apologized privately but not publicly, both privately and publicly, or did not apologize at all
  16. funding freeze rescinded https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/politics/white-house-rescind-federal-funding-freeze/index.html
  17. funding freeze rescinded https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/politics/white-house-rescind-federal-funding-freeze/index.html
  18. because i totally lost it i'm better than that lots of personal stress spanky was no worse today than any magat has been in the past 10 years on this board and the shags
  19. i apologize to spanky publically for lashing out i lost it this afternoon i am sorry
  20. current order book for Overture: UA 15 AA 20 JAL (20 options) unidentified (51 options)
  21. negatory it was a test article to prove they could do it some of the systems will be in the production machine but it's a horse of a different color... @blacklab target seating is for 55 pax
  22. you fucking did it yourself you goddamn imbecile YOU POSTED THE PIC OF YOU GETTING DIALYSIS!! you put YOUR OWN SHIT on blast!
  23. the swingwing and doubledroop nose were bad ass..... but not wise choices; the final version was the -300 with a fixed wing and single-pivot nose: negatory
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