No survivors expected after midair collision between passenger jet and Army helicopter

www.cnn.com /us/live-news/plane-crash-dca-potomac-washington-dc-01-29-25/index.html

How long until the chuds blame this on DEI and WOKE in the military?

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the real question is how did the houthis manage to pull this one off?

This is deeply saddening to have more casualties from the US military.
But who the fuck is alive to remember this event from 80 years ago? You know some shitstain at CNN heard of this event during their weekly quiz bowl and tried their hardest to make a tie-in.

the trueanon rules for life are never wrong

EDIT: actually nvm the helicopter was just troops, they're free to get on as many helicopters as they life

it wasn't DEI, it was Havana Syndrome

The Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger plane on Wednesday night was on an annual proficiency training flight
Proficiency: medium-low
- You're allowed one mistake on your final pilot exam. Nobody said anything about the magnitude of said mistake.

Trump is on CNN right now blaming woke dei and people with mental problems on the crash, oh fuck yeah.
- Try not to blame marginalized people challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
  
  We really are just speed running german style fascism from the 30's weimar but transplanted to today with G*mers at the helm instead of weird germans obsessed with hinduism.
- Oh! Don't forget dei = people missing limbs and with dwarfism.
  I wish I was making that up. Because apparently those issues make people not geniuses or something.

I usually drive my wife to the train in the mornings. She usually listens to NPR morning edition for quick updates. We bitch about how lib they are in the car.
This morning she woke me up and NPR was already playing, it happens sometimes. I hear about this collision. The first thing in my head and out of my ADHD mouth at 6:40AM was "Shit, Iran finally got SpongeBob".
My wife was a figure skater as a teen and now plays Women's hockey. She's still into figure skating as a sport. In the car she elaborates on how crazy the crash was because it was full of figure skaters and she was just watching figure skating Nationals. She has a ticket to Worlds this year. I felt kinda bad about "SpongeBob" but I still think it was a good bit without any context.
- My fiancee is also a figure skater, we watched the event the other day together. Really really sad.
  We need a Laken-Riley act for dissolving the military after this.
- You're in good company. My ADHD does the same stuff and it took years of working front-of-house and general aging for me to finally keep those thoughts in my head.
  
  It's been the opposite for me, the older I get the more support I need. I was unmedicated until I was 30 and gave up the ghost.
- That's a really funny joke comrade I laughed out loud at it

The Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger plane on Wednesday night was on an annual proficiency training flight, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Thursday.
In fucking active air ways?
- The explanation I saw that the Blackhawk pilot got confused about which airplane he was supposed to be paying attention to kind of brings up the obvious question of "why the hell were they flying through the approach corridor of a major airport?" I normally try to refrain from backseat quarterbacking subjects I don't have expertise in, but it seems obviously reckless.
  
  Maybe this is some long covid consequence or something. I heard an anecdote on here awhile back that people with long covid are just sitting at stop signs in their cars and getting confused at what to do next.
  Add in the fact that most people with long covid don’t even realize they have long covid and we start getting more freak accidents like this.
  I’m not saying that’s what this is but who knows it could be
  
  You don't need to be an expert when its so obvious. If I see a derailed train, I don't need to be a locomotive engineer to know its not supposed to be off the tracks. The helicopter flew into airspace every pilot and non pilot knows you don't fly into.
  
  What's also really dumb is like....you're a helicopter. You can just sit there and hover. No need to be moving anywhere while planes are taking off. You can literally stop and float, go up or down, backwards...any direction other than forwards (including no direction at all).
  This whole thing is like if a person driving a car didn't know you had brakes or taking your foot off the accelerator slows you down and drove through a four-way stop without stopping.
  
  I don't understand why we have to have these schlemihls fucking around in hundred million dollar equipment and incinerating a billion gallons of kerosene when surely flight sims are really fucking good in this year of our lord 2025
- Well yeah, the DoD has an entire 1000 acres of military base that the Air Force uses right across the Potomac from Reagan Airport.
  Not exactly where I'd put civilian airport but technically it was there first. Why the DoD/Air Force can't take a detour that completely avoids coming even close to descending/departing planes for training
- Look up the DC HELO chart, route 4. There's a route that runs right by the approach corridor for runway 33. It mandates at or below 200 feet in that section and the Data suggests the collision occurred at 350 feet, but that is internet ads-b data and not reliable for that level of fidelity. But yes, you can fly helicopters straight through the path of an active airport if they're talking to atc.
  
  To add on to this: Here is the ATC recording from the time of the collision, though the military is on UHF and this is only VHF so it's still a bit tricky to fully decipher what happened
  Skip to around 16:30 to get to the involved aircraft
  The CRJ is Blue Streak 5342 and the black hawk is PAT 25
  https://archive.liveatc.net/kdca/KDCA1-Twr-Jan-30-2025-0130Z.mp3
  The heli was instructed to visually pass behind the CRJ, but beyond that it's unclear how they managed to fuck it up so badly
- not too proficient if you ask me

How long until the chuds blame this on DEI and WOKE in the military?
They already have
- How long until ~~the chuds~~ reasonable people blame this on ~~DEI and WOKE in~~ the military?
  We'll never hear this angle from the imperial news.
  
  Seriously. Without even getting into criticizing the US military in general, this is just blatant incompetence and/or lack of training.
  You would think once high profile American citizens start becoming the victims of our military, they would get called out for being the absolute shitshow they are playing around with multi-million dollar equipment.
  But nope, I doubt we hear a peep from the media about these idiots.