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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

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


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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.

https://t.me/STFNVIDEO/37073

LOL! Illuminati Card Game again.

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.

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

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.

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.

AD says

Read about the USS John McCain collision which still seems surrounded in a shroud of secrecy.

There was another near miss by the McCain underway in the Middle East and the Captain was sacked. Also a video of him mounting a rifle scope in reverse.

Unlucky ship.

AmericanKulak says

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.

The question is was there a motive at this point. There's no way at that angle that they didn't see the plane even at night. Ignore ATC calls. Mid air collisions just don't happen, it really should be impossible with tech and communication to hit another object flying in 3D space knowing it was a pattern for a runway.

Trump likes aviation so I hope he boosts the standards for all armed services. I'm not an investigator but this appears to 100% be the choppers fault. A chopper can get to 1k feet in under a minute and they know the pattern for the airport. As I said in another comment, 1 in million chance or it was intentional.

3. Trannie revenge. - Winner, winner, chicken dinner?

A Transgender Pilot Named Jo Ellis Flew Blackhawk Helicopter Into the American Airlines Jet at Reagan National

The pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed directly into a Bombardier jet carrying 64 passengers Wednesday evening, has been identified by podcaster Luke Ford as Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2) Jo Ellis, a transgender woman. Jo Ellis served in the Virginia National Guard for 15 years and transitioned while serving as a pilot. She had been making radicalized anti-Trump statements on social media.

This raises the question of whether this was intentional, as President Trump himself implied. We are reporting a rumor. But on the other hand, 24 hours after the crash and the pilot and crew remain unidentified. Which is strange. The names of the crew members on the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the crash near Reagan National Airport have not been officially released by the Department of Defense at this time.

The Jo Ellis Facebook page was updated Thursday evening with a new profile photo related to the Reagan Airport collision. In apparent verification of Jo Ellis' fate, her new Facebook profile photo refers to the destroyed flight, American Airlines 5342.

President Donald J. Trump called it Thursday saying it appeared the pilot had flown directly into . And once again, Trump was right. AOC and others condemned Trump Thursday for blaming the crash on "DEI practices." Trump issued an executive order last week removing all Transgender military personnel from active duty.

Based on the information available, Jo Ellis was indeed on board the Black Hawk helicopter that was involved in the crash near Washington D.C. She was identified as a transgender woman and a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the Virginia Army National Guard, who was piloting the helicopter at the time of the incident. However, the exact details of her role or whether she was the pilot in command remain part of the ongoing investigation and discussions. She had been vocal against Trump the day before on an interview wanting to stay in the military.

https://www.smobserved.com/story/2025/01/30/news/a-transgender-pilot-named-jo-ellis-flew-blackhawk-helicopter-into-the-american-airlines-jet-at-reagan-national/8719.html

AmericanKulak says

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.

Not sure what the guy think it means, but AFAIK that ATC request means they are asked to return to the base leg of the pattern.

Based on the video it seems intentional as I think about it more. Probably like the German Wings crash. If you change your gender you're mentally disabled and technically should be in an institute for retarded people. This thing was not right in the head. Not gonna give it pronouns...

You cannot miss an airplane with landing lights at the time and flashing lights that are on the whole time. I can see planes up probably 20-30k feet at night. It's not hard. They know every passenger on board. FAA needs to release all of it yesterday. You literally cannot fly through an approach like that at that level. There's going to be traffic. It was a chopper, you're at 1k feet in a minute. Why 400' altitude crossing a runway pattern? Makes no sense. Could have been 600' above the plane.

I think it was a crazy person suicide mission. Maybe someone of importance was on the jet, but I'm thinking it was pretty. obvious it was intentional at this point.
RWSGFY says

Not sure what the guy think it means, but AFAIK that ATC request means they are asked to return to the base leg of the pattern.

Pattern for choppers is completely different. And they knew it was military. Base meant get the fuck out of this airspace and go back. You can hear the urgency in his voice as well. There was no way clearance was given at 400' to cross a landing pattern for jets/planes. I'm convinced it was intentional at this point after looking at it more.

Can a helicopter be flown remotely?
Yes, a helicopter can be flown remotely, through the use of radio-controlled (RC) technology, where a pilot operates the helicopter using a controller that sends signals to the aircraft, allowing for flight without physically being onboard; this is commonly seen with hobbyist RC helicopters, but also exists in larger, more advanced systems for military and commercial applications.

komputodo says

Can a helicopter be flown remotely?
Yes, a helicopter can be flown remotely, through the use of radio-controlled (RC) technology, where a pilot operates the helicopter using a controller that sends signals to the aircraft, allowing for flight without physically being onboard; this is commonly seen with hobbyist RC helicopters, but also exists in larger, more advanced systems for military and commercial applications.

It's not news. Blackhawks do have remote control capabilities. The question is: who was talking to the ATC as helo pilot and where all the bodies of Soviet figure skaters have been kept on ice since the 90s?

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Why does it matter if the helo was flown remotely? 🤡

The plane was approaching the helo from rear left quadrant. Not so easy to spot if you are not deliberately looking for it. And why would they if they had another plane in front of them and ATC didn't say anything about TWO planes.

3. Helicopters operating in the traffic pattern may fly a pattern similar to the fixed-wing aircraft pattern, but at a lower altitude (500 AGL) and closer to the runway. This pattern may be on the opposite side of the runway from fixed-wing traffic when airspeed requires or for practice power-off landings (autorotation) and if local policy permits. Landings not to the runway must avoid the flow of fixed wing traffic.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html/chap4_section_3.html

komputodo says

Can a helicopter be flown remotely?
Yes, a helicopter can be flown remotely, through the use of radio-controlled (RC) technology, where a pilot operates the helicopter using a controller that sends signals to the aircraft, allowing for flight without physically being onboard; this is commonly seen with hobbyist RC helicopters, but also exists in larger, more advanced systems for military and commercial applications.

I can map land with my drone just inputing some data in. Takes off, I push a button and it flies the course with no control input. I could have been 3 miles away and flown my drone into that plane. It's not hard.

Considering the supposed pilot in command was trans, the old swicharoo back to being their original gender makes them unidentifiable in the future. Just because they say training mission does not mean people were on board. Not a big conspiracy guy, but this a needle in a huge haystack type event. Hitting a moving target like that going 165 knots "could" be an accident, but I find that hard to believe.

Basically it would be like getting struck by lightening while an F5 tornado blows through walking the dog at the same time. It's really not possible. It was intentional.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Looks to me like this trans “woman”:

Why has there been no official release of the names of the pilots?

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/incursions-friday-january-31-2025

The tower was the locus of lamentable tragedy. A harried air traffic controller, juggling two jobs at the same time, noticed the looming disaster — but inexplicably failed to direct the helicopter and the plane to separate, offering instead something sounding more like an unhurried suggestion. The controller was handling both helicopters and planes —normally separate jobs— because their supervisor unaccountably let another controller go home early.

The F.A.A.’s preliminary report found tower staffing was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic.” Presumably, the FAA meant the tower was understaffed, since who would complain about overstaffing?

In the background of these instantaneous errors lies a fractured FAA having a slow-motion existential crisis. A class-action lawsuit continues grinding away in discovery, exposing the agency’s tragic 2014 decision to scrap merit-based testing when hiring air traffic controllers. Instead the FAA relied on a “biographical statement” that scored, you guessed it, totally irrelevant factors like skin color and ethnic background.

Reams of headlines over the last couple years have reported growing numbers of close calls at airports and an expanding crisis over staffing levels — a manpower crisis that festered even while the agency essentially refused to hire better-qualified white applicants, holding those jobs open for less-qualified minority applicants.

As bad as that sounds, it gets worse. The FAA’s critical staffing issues started —I am not making this up— with its mass layoffs in 2021 of controllers who refused to take the jabs. The agency has never recovered from that horrible mistake. It remains currently 3,000 controllers under normal staffing levels.

Thus, it is unsurprising that in its last survey in 2023, Pete Buttigieg’s DOT reported that 77% of critical air traffic control facilities were understaffed. The truth is probably closer to all of them.

In the same year, the New York Times reported that near-misses on airport runways (“incursions”) had climbed to an all-time high, and that overworked, burnt-out air traffic controllers were falling asleep on the job and getting drunk at work. To put a number on it, the FAA self-reported 1,750 runway incursions for each of the past three years. By comparison, in 2014, the year the FAA changed its testing standards, the agency reported only 1,278 incursions.

Finally, I am aware of widespread rumors on X that one of the three military pilots was a transgender ‘woman’ (biological male), and was possibly suicidal. Since I cannot confirm that rumor, I won’t further develop it, not until the DOD releases the crew’s names. If the rumor is true, then Trump knows it and the media doesn’t. Their ridiculous fact-checking might blow up in their faces.

Yesterday evening, President Trump signed a brand-new executive order titled, “Immediate Assessment of Aviation Safety.” The brief order identified some of the same problems I mentioned earlier and ordered the terrific new Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and the incoming FAA Administrator to review all Biden-era decisions and orders — and to promptly fire anyone below minimum, merit-based standards.

Here’s the key paragraph in Trump’s EO reciting some of the FAA’s many failures:

This shocking event follows problematic and likely illegal decisions during the
Obama and Biden Administrations that minimized merit and competence in the
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Obama Administration implemented a
biographical questionnaire at the FAA to shift the hiring focus away from objective
aptitude. During my first term, my Administration raised standards to achieve the
highest standards of safety and excellence. But the Biden Administration
egregiously rejected merit-based hiring, requiring all executive departments and
agencies to implement dangerous "diversity equity and inclusion" tactics, and
specifically recruiting individuals with "severe intellectual" disabilities in the FAA.

Patrick says

But the Biden Administration
egregiously rejected merit-based hiring, requiring all executive departments and
agencies to implement dangerous "diversity equity and inclusion" tactics, and
specifically recruiting individuals with "severe intellectual" disabilities in the FAA.

I've done ground school for a damn toy, but it's harder than most people think. I'm not boosting my ego, but passed the first time. I don't think people understand how much there is to know if you're a pilot (I'm not). And we're not talking the plane/chopper itself.

My point is you don't do training with a disabled person in heavy trafficked airspace at night. I'd rather have a drunk flying the chopper not some tranny.

I procrastinated but wanted to shoot a show of my favorite band out in Missoula, MT. Kettlehouse. Didn't work out but we tried. It would have been awesome. The further point is this shouldn't have happened. There are so many checks before you leave the ground with any aircraft.

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/one-day-before-collision-near-miss

One Day Before Collision, Near Miss with Helicopter on Reagan Final Approach

Traffic Collision Avoidance System alert prompted commercial aircraft evasive maneuver and go around just 24 hours and 40 minutes before the collision.

The following video of air traffic around Reagan National captures a near miss between a commercial aircraft (Republic Airways 4514) on final approach with an Army helicopter just 24 hours and 40 minutes before the collision between an Army helicopter and American Airlines regional jet.

WookieMan says

I've done ground school for a damn toy, but it's harder than most people think. I'm not boosting my ego, but passed the first time.

You remind me of the old Beverley Hillbillies TV show where Jethro brags to everyone about his 6th Grade education.

The 'best' information window has closed (usually the most proximate to the event) and everything from now on will be programmed layers of confusion and disinformation.

Some events will be re-characterized by both "sides" if something of 'great sensitivity' has occurred (aka a dirty bomb intercepted, some particular person killed on the down low but not revealed etc.) Of course, all of the unfortunate athletes will also be used as a smoke screen.

We can only hopium a 'real story' will eventually emerge that has some credibility, but more likely in two weeks nobody will even have much of a memory trace of this thing.

Jo Ellis is in a guard unit and this flight was not from that unit, she was also seen after the accident.

Plane crash in Philadelphia.

Philly plane crash
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14dVHMJZR6/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://x.com/jasonfox29/status/1885474026950205625?s=46

The third pilot is female, and name withheld per family request. That's all that we know for sure.

https://t.me/WeTheMedia/117218

Figures. The unidentified female probably didn't know how to reverse the helicopter or parallel park.

Ceffer says

https://t.me/WeTheMedia/117218

they can't withhold this name since there are no Pentagon privacy laws protecting her identity since her next of kin were informed

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BigSky says

WookieMan says

I've done ground school for a damn toy, but it's harder than most people think. I'm not boosting my ego, but passed the first time.

You remind me of the old Beverley Hillbillies TV show where Jethro brags to everyone about his 6th Grade education.

You sound like someone that has no clue what they're talking about.