Plane Crash In DC
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JayUtah
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Juan Browne tends to be far less prone to sensationalism than other YouTube commentators. For that reason he gets my attention.
smartcooky
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The NTSB has laid the blame squarely on the FAA
Yup, the NTSB has ripped the FAA and ATC a new one!!
The National Transportation Safety Board found the probable causes of the midair collision last year included poorly designed flight routes and ignored warnings about risks.
In announcing the primary causes of a fatal midair collision over the Potomac River a year ago, the National Transportation Safety Board determined that the Federal Aviation Administration had designed and approved dangerous, crisscrossing flight routes that allowed an Army helicopter to fly into the landing path of a passenger jet to calamitous results.
The investigating board also castigated the agency for not doing enough to respond to warnings about longtime risks to safety and found a complacent culture within the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport that relied too heavily on pilots in the airspace being able to see and steer clear of each others’ aircraft, a practice called visual separation.
They also determined that insufficient warnings from the air traffic controller to the pilots of the Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet involved in the crash, and altimeters that, unbeknown to the helicopter pilots, habitually gave faulty readings of altitude, also contributed to the tragic crash.
“It’s one failure after another,” Jennifer Homendy, the board chair, told reporters during a break in the proceedings, adding: “This was 100 percent preventable.”
The N.T.S.B. focused the brunt of its ire on the F.A.A., determining that the route the Army Black Hawk helicopter flew along the Potomac River and the landing path of American Airlines Flight 5342 were never designed to ensure separation between aircraft — and that the dangers posed by the crisscrossing paths were never adequately reviewed.
Yup, the NTSB has ripped the FAA and ATC a new one!!
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smartcooky
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And here is Juan Browne (Blancolirio) with an excellent, play-by-play explainer using the NTSB's mock-up/simulation of the view from first, the cockpit of PAT-25 (the Blackhawk helicopter), and then Bluestreak 5342 (the Bombardier CRJ-700) in the moments leading up to the crash...
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Andy_Ross
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I was just watching that last night
I'm expecting an update
According to a disappointing number of comments it was DEI that did it.
Any time he reports a crash that didn't have a middle aged white man piloting it was DEI thst did it.
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smartcooky
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Sad that this is the narrative being pushed. I was half-expecting The Fat Orange Turd to pull out his Sharpie and show everyone how he knows more about Air Accident Investigation than all of the NTSB, and the woman in charge must be covering up for the woman that was flying the Blackhawk.
JayUtah
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And rightly so, but part of the blame belongs to Congress. The relevant committees in Congress have pushed hard for expanding the air travel capacity of D.C. airspace. At least from some of the testimony I saw, the sentiment from Congress was, "This is what we want, FAA, and it's your job to make it work."
Yes, I think that if your hot take is, "Ew, there was a woman flying the helo," then maybe you shouldn't get to be the person who regulates air travel.
a_unique_person
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That seems to be over of the distinguishing marks of American political decision making.
Politicians seem to have too much power to force stupid requirements on decision making that should be left to the experts.
So governments at a high level work with the experts to make right out wrong decisions but I don't think I've ever seen the ability of individual politicians interfere so much. The "riders" randomly attached to bills that have nothing to do with the bills are the most extreme example.