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Reagan National Airport accident tonight


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2025 Jan 29, 8:09pm   1,340 views  100 comments

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It just seems surreal that an Army Blackhawk helicopter would get in way of landing path of an American Eagle plane at Reagan National Airport.

Wonder what happened like the helicopter was in an emergency or the pilots were that disoriented at night. They are pro's flying those helicopters in all types of weather and conditions and not have all the latest navigation technology.

Just heard on ABC News that people have been pulled alive out of the Potomac River. Now I am hearing the air traffic controller told the helicopter to fly behind the American Eagle aircraft that was landing.

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1   iloveCefferMemes   2025 Jan 29, 10:12pm  




~30 known Black Hawk crashes in the past 45 yrs. Black Hawks have killed a lot of people.

First 5 crashes, while flying near radio broadcast towers. The broadcast towers' electromagnetic emissions disrupted the helicopters' flight control systems.

"The pilots were instructed to fly away from emitters. In the long term, shielding was increased and backup systems were installed." - wikipedia

The Sikorsky_SH-60 Black Hawk involved, is an older model.

Even though the BH control systems have hardened, you never know about EMF these days.
Or, maybe an unmanned Black Hawk hit the Bombardier CRJ-700 jet. You never know.
2   AmericanKulak   2025 Jan 30, 12:32am  

AD says

It just seems surreal that an Army Blackhawk helicopter would get in way of landing path of an American Eagle plane at Reagan National Airport.

Perfectly cold and clear night, lights on, happened very close to the airport. Wild that a training mission would get so close to a busy civvie AP.
4   Waitup   2025 Jan 30, 2:28am  

Some high profile traget?
5   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2025 Jan 30, 4:26am  

Ceffering:

1. Whistleblower taken out.
2. Trump nominee taken out.
3. Trannie revenge.
4. Drone research test.
6   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2025 Jan 30, 4:29am  

Flight 5342, a CRJ-700 operated by PSA Airlines, was traveling from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington Reagan National Airport when the crash occurred on final approach.

Moment American Airlines Flight 5342 collides with Blackhawk helicopter in fiery DC crash

https://nypost.com/2025/01/30/us-news/moment-american-airlines-flight-5432-collides-with-blackhawk-helicopter-in-fiery-dc-crash/
7   PeopleUnited   2025 Jan 30, 4:31am  

Bunch of American and Russian figure skating team, coaches, staff family on board.
8   zzyzzx   2025 Jan 30, 5:13am  

Obligatory How much for a ticket to the Potomac river comment.

Weather was nice (by January standards) last night. May have even been above freezing.

Pro Tip: Always use BWI or Dulles, and not necessarily because of this.
9   WookieMan   2025 Jan 30, 6:06am  

AD says

It just seems surreal that an Army Blackhawk helicopter would get in way of landing path of an American Eagle plane at Reagan National Airport.

95% of incidences are because of pilot error. Could be bad training. Could be they were drunk or hungover. High on weed. And the same can be said for ATC if they gave incorrect instructions.

You are correct that it's surreal, especially in 3D space. They had to have seen each other. I don't have great eyesight but have sat right seat in Cessnas. Pilot asks me for help to spot traffic when the call comes in from ATC. Haven't read up on this since it just happened.

I lied, I just read up on it. Seems to be the choppers fault given it was a training mission. Likely a low hour chopper pilot in the military. Or a god awful trainer not being alert. You don't fly in the landing pattern of a major airport for training. You can train elsewhere. I know it's Air Force but they should be training at Tyndall AFB in the panhandle. Not DC.

Actually Wisconsin has a big National Guard base with no major airport north of Madison by about an hour(ish). We'll see what the pilot hours were. Either way the trainer could have taken control. That's my take, I may be wrong and I'll own it when the final details come out. But it had to be the choppers fault.
10   clambo   2025 Jan 30, 7:41am  

What the hell are helicopters doing flying around airports?

I avoid night flights; I'm afraid now.
12   WookieMan   2025 Jan 30, 7:57am  

clambo says

I avoid night flights; I'm afraid now.

Don't be. Someone messed up. It's a 1 in a million situation. I fly into one the worst landing strips close to monthly at Midway in Chicago. San Diego might have it beat as worst to land in. I don't do East coast so I'm sure there are shitty ones there.

At Midway the runways are short. The 737 can land there, but on so many flights people get the shit scared out of themselves. I've seen people cry. You literally have to brace for every landing. If you somehow weren't wearing your seatbelt you will get tossed into the seat in front of you. I've talked to pilots and only certain ones are allowed to fly into Midway.

That's why I think it was the chopper. Planes have patterns and ATC gives them directions about altitude, speed, other aircraft, etc. They should have seen the chopper on the plane, but who knows, the instructor may not have looked if the lights were on for the chopper. The plane would have avoided it.
13   OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething   2025 Jan 30, 8:27am  

1) ATF workers pissed off that they might get fired.

2) As a rule, I don't care much what happens on the East Coast. It's a completely foreign world to me. In turn, they don't give a damn about the Western US. For both, it's just something both sides see on TV.
14   Patrick   2025 Jan 30, 8:37am  

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/army-black-hawk-was-on-training-flight


Last night, shortly before 9pm ET, an American Airlines flight carrying 64 people was on its final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when it collided with an Army helicopter with three soldiers on board, about 400 feet off the ground, killing everyone on both aircraft.

The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk had departed from Fort Belvoir in Virginia with a flight path that cut directly across the flight path of Reagan National Airport




This final approach is probably the most carefully controlled in the world, as it it lies three miles south of the White House and the Capitol.

According to various media reports, military aircraft frequently train in the congested airspace around D.C. for “familiarization and continuity of government planning.”

Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asked the helicopter, whose callsign was registered as PAT25, if he could see the arriving plane.

'PAT25 do you see a CRJ? PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ,' the air traffic controller said. A few seconds later, a fireball erupted in the night sky above Washington DC as the two aircraft collided. ...

On the face of it, it strikes me as very imprudent to conduct training flights at night that cross the final approach to Reagan D.C. To me, the word “training” suggests a potential for making errors that an instructor is called upon to correct.

It also strikes me as very strange that Army Blackhawk helicopters operating in this airspace at night are not required to operate with bright external lights, especially when crossing the final approach to Reagan D.C.

Finally, though it’s nothing more than a vague intuition, it seems to me that there is something very strange about this disaster and the timing of it. I wonder if, for some reason, risk management of such training activities was impaired.
15   WookieMan   2025 Jan 30, 8:41am  

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

2) As a rule, I don't care much what happens on the East Coast. It's a completely foreign world to me. In turn, they don't give a damn about the Western US. For both, it's just something both sides see on TV.

West Coast and Rockies have more fun. I give no shits for anything East coast and it's closer for me. I go south or west. We'll hit up Acadia national park at some point in Maine, but that will 100% be my last trip east from PA north/east outside of a layover flight.

I know there are some east coasters here, but I just don't get the desire to live there. Jobs obviously. But cities specifically, why? Appalachian mountains I get, but there's really nothing else and I don't consider them mountains anyway. Move to Nashville area or surrounding. NYC and Boston can eat a turd. Same with DC and Baltimore. Philly. They're shit holes.
16   Eric Holder   2025 Jan 30, 8:42am  

Patrick says

It also strikes me as very strange that Army Blackhawk helicopters operating in this airspace at night are not required to operate with bright external lights


The helo was operating with lights. They are visible on the video of the crash: https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-shows-dc-plane-crash-involving-american-airlines-flight-black-hawk-helicopter
17   WookieMan   2025 Jan 30, 9:47am  

Eric Holder says

Patrick says


It also strikes me as very strange that Army Blackhawk helicopters operating in this airspace at night are not required to operate with bright external lights


The helo was operating with lights. They are visible on the video of the crash: https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-shows-dc-plane-crash-involving-american-airlines-flight-black-hawk-helicopter

So pilot or ATC error. Makes no sense to fly a chopper in the known approach path of a major airport. Or intentional if we go conspiracy. Even if it was training you know your airspace before leaving the ground and plan. Someone failed massively. You know the winds and know which way planes would be landing.

None of it makes sense as an armchair pilot. The chopper shouldn't have been there.
18   B.A.C.A.H.   2025 Jan 30, 10:08am  

clambo says

What the hell are helicopters doing flying around airports?

I avoid night flights; I'm afraid now.

The lit up monuments are beautiful at night. They have the entire region for training flights but most of the region doesn't have those beautiful sites.
19   zzyzzx   2025 Jan 30, 10:20am  

I'm going to assume that means that there will be a new episode of Mayday:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday(Canadian_TV_series)

Mayday is a Canadian documentary television program examining air crashes, near-crashes, hijackings, bombings, and other disasters. Mayday uses re-enactments and computer-generated imagery to reconstruct the sequence of events leading up to each disaster. In addition, survivors, aviation experts, retired pilots, and crash investigators are interviewed, to explain how the emergencies came about, how they were investigated, and how they might have been prevented.
20   RWSGFY   2025 Jan 30, 10:51am  

Nothing strange about training flight in that airspace, btw. Training flights happen everywhere. One can land a Cessna-172 at night in a very busy airport like SFO on a training flight if so desires (and doesn't mind paying landing fees).

Of course Army helo
pilots train there because they provide taxi services for the Army top brass.
21   Ceffer   2025 Jan 30, 11:28am  

Everybody is gaslighting it as an accidental crash, as expected, instead of the helicopter being hacked like the ship in Baltimore Harbor and used as a auto pilot missile.

The whole thing is buried in so much bullshit already, I doubt anything reliable will come out for a while from some whistleblower dormouse. "Let it fade into the memory hole until some other distraction arises."
23   Ceffer   2025 Jan 30, 12:11pm  

"The FBI released a statement “confirming” there were no signs of foul play or terrorism…"

Gee, isn't that what all the terrorists say?

https://rumble.com/v6exd8m-the-fbi-released-a-statement-confirming-there-were-no-signs-of-foul-play-or.html
27   The_Deplorable   2025 Jan 30, 12:54pm  

AD says
"It just seems surreal that an Army Blackhawk helicopter would get in way
of landing path of an American Eagle plane at Reagan National Airport."

This is an Air Traffic Control (ATC) blunder because they allowed the helicopter to fly in front
of a landing runway. The helicopter had no business being there. So, the question facing
the investigators right now is what were they smoking in the ATC?
28   PeopleUnited   2025 Jan 30, 2:48pm  

Definitely an ATC blunder, but helo should never be in flight paths of planes. That is on the Army for not training their pilots to stay out of the landing pattern. In 3D space that includes both elevation (could have flown the helo either higher or lower, or just avoid runways altogether. It’s something an adolescent could predict/prevent.
29   AD   2025 Jan 30, 3:10pm  

the H-60 is the Blackhawk helicopter, the AE is the American Eagle jet liner, and the red asterisk is the other jet liner and I wonder if H-60 pilots got major disoriented with their vision of AE and the other jet liner being one bright light


30   Ceffer   2025 Jan 30, 3:33pm  



https://rumble.com/v6f67cp-x-user-spookdblog-on-d.c.-air-tragedy-he-knows-stuff.html\\https://rumble.com/embed/v6cxsbv/?pub=m9199


original link
31   RWSGFY   2025 Jan 30, 4:02pm  

Good explanation here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwp2NEHzrMI

In a nutshell: the helo
pilots thought the traffic they were being warned about was the plane taking off.
34   Ceffer   2025 Jan 30, 5:08pm  

LOL! Illuminati Card Game again.

35   AD   2025 Jan 30, 5:23pm  

Could be worse like sabotage such as hacking of Blackhawk and/or American Eagle jet controls via an operator on a small craft on the Potomac.

Read about the USS John McCain collision which still seems surrounded in a shroud of secrecy.
36   Ceffer   2025 Jan 30, 5:50pm  

Maybe it didn't have a crew, either. Or, maybe a crew that was already killed before takeoff.

39   RWSGFY   2025 Jan 30, 10:09pm  

Ceffer says


Maybe it didn't have a crew, either. Or, maybe a crew that was already killed before takeoff.




And a planeload of Soviet figure scaters who died back in the 90s and have been kept on ice somewhere until the day they became useful for a false flag.
40   AmericanKulak   2025 Jan 31, 12:33am  

Helicopter was ordered to return to base, urgently, and did not. Nor did it confirm the message sent repeatedly by ATC. Then ATC told the copter to land.



Rumors of Trans but nothing concrete or verifiable. One female pilot, however.

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