![Rest in peace to the passengers of this plane. Right now it looks like they were killed because the Washington D.C. police accidentally flew a police helicopter into the airport's airspace. [cw:death]](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/fcf3a242-6256-4cf3-b6e8-6f6de9c18e5a.png){kind=link}
Link to video (crash is the lights on the bottom). Obviously trigger warning for a mass casualty event. https://x.com/MatthewJshow/status/1884791272369541211
Link to video (crash is the lights on the bottom). Obviously trigger warning for a mass casualty event. https://x.com/MatthewJshow/status/1884791272369541211
I think this one could become a big scandal. The overcongestion in DC’s airspace has been a big issue for a while with a few close calls over the past year. The army is flying training missions at night in the landing path of an international airport below the altitude that the proximity warning systems halfway-cut out. I’ve listened to the ATC recordings, with the Blackhawk and jet on different frequencies with the same controller but unable to hear each other. The controller asks the Blackhawk pilot twice to visually confirm the jet and he has no situational awareness.
It has always pissed me off when I see a military aircraft overhead and it doesn’t even have its transponder on. They’re wildly reckless, weaving in and out of the Rockies and its densely populated urban corridor with crowded airspace around them. Hopefully the fallout from this accident forces strict regulations for them.
That will happen yeah
Not that I think they’re moral, just self-serving. When it’s their airspace and the plane is crashing right next to the DoD/DIA headquarters a few miles from the capitol/pentagon, the next inevitable crash of this type has a chance of being moderately-to-severely wholesome.