Ex-Black Hawk helicopter pilot believes three things went wrong in plane collision

Pilots with years of experience who have flown the Potomac River route across Rwy 33 have said that the Blackhawk based on its flight path would not have seen the departing traffic but would most likely have been looking at another aircraft making an approach to Rwy 1.

dei=die in this instance.... read the ntsb prelim report; biden dei staffer Lobach had no clue as she flew the black hawk into the side of the commercial airliner....

Ex militairy here. My believe?? This crash should not be possible. What i think??? LOCKHEED MARTIN DEMONSTRATED THIS REMOTE BLACKHAWK TECHNOLOGY in 2024. I will leave it at that.

It's easy to hide the mistakes of one DEI hire.
but when two DEI's meet, one in the helicopter and another in the control tower, this is what you get. ...this WILL NOT be the last incident!
The repercussions of Lefties pandering to woke nonsense will still cost many lives!

Screw you you are a bunch of lying creeps. Talk away your citizenships !

They were at the wrong height. That has nothing to do with the visual conditions. There's a altimeter to tell you. Learn from this and just find blame.

The number one thing that is going wrong is every branch of the US military is being told that they must pass inferior (and as a result, dangerous) minorities and females, just like this woman commenting about this. CNN is so liberal that they went looking for another female to promote in the wake of this accident, most likely caused by the female blackhawk pilot. The military flight programs have been changed in their syllabus organizations to allow for many many unstat grades for passing and wings (completion of military flight training) in spite of failing many flight maneuvers and procedures. Congress (liberal Democrat congress) has mandated these changes... and this is what you get. Women involved in fatal accidents.

And now all the sudden those most necessary chopper flights along those two routes are surprisingly not so necessary anymore

1-D, 2-E, 3-I

"aircraft at 5 o'clock" ??? NO - the CRJ was NOT AT 5 O'CLOCK like this retired female pilot just stated. It was at 11 o'clock. And her other piece of analysis that was completely wrong is the jet "taking off in the foreground" , wtf is she talking about?? - she is referring to the Kennedy Center CCTV footage from miles away that sees another jet taking off that is nowhere near the Blackhawk, ..this retired pilot lady needs to stay retired, obviously CNN was desperate for a female retired pilot for their ridiculously inaccurate garbage analysis

The main issue was that the Blackhawk was nearly 200 feet above its required flight course. The other issues don't matter if the Blackhawk is flying at 200 feet. This is pilot error. Who was flying and why were they allowed to be at twice their normal flight height. I have a feeling I know the answer, because from day one the female pilot was protected and her name withheld while her family scrubbed her social media.

Why did the chopper nearly hit two other planes only moments before the actual collision? What was the chopper doing?

I wonder why CNN care about the helo loss and not even acknowledgement for the paying innocent passengers who lost their lives. 60 plus out ranks 3. Though any loss is bad.

Lol This former pilot doesn't understand geometry. Adding another body to the flight crew would only have changed the death count. Maybe she thinks the helo was flying sideways? If so, CNN really should pit this imbecile on the airwaves. 180⁰ covers the forward direction. As the investigation has already determined, the helo ran into the jet.and they were at 9⁰ nose UP orientation.

Wow, this ex-Black Hawk pilot must have deep insight! But can we solely rely on a helicopter pilot's view on plane collisions? Let's explore other expert opinions too.

One of the most obvious examples of bullshittery I'VE ever heard.

You absolute tool! Only 180° in front?! Their target was directly in front of them!! How tf could another crew chief IN BACK help them see the plane?!

Pointless to get a pilots opinion on a drone… being pilotless😂 that shit was being remote operated, not piloted. Stop sleep walking people

Heres the biggest problem, not enough people in tower. How many towers are there. People get used to things going smoothly. So at same height its timing game. Then go do something else. Thing is no alarms like space ball's, it was jammed?
If it was training wouldn't it be tagged differently more care lower height. Or was their really more to this like terrisctic, hacker's, computer AI movie with Gerard Butler space station

Did she fly a Blackhawk or make sandwiches on a Blackhawk.

Could, flying over water, effect the instruments, inside the aircraft? Such as altitude, etc?

3rd point doesn’t make sense because the ATC told the helicopters pilots that the jet in question was preparing to land on runway 33 and that they were to fly behind as they cut across a well established glide path to runway 33. It could not have been anymore crystal clear. With the second point are we to believe that while flying in extremely critical airspace the pilots forgot to check their altimeter?

She proves herself wrong with the 1st point. Plane was at 10 o’clock and at 9 to 12 o’clock.
Do they thing people are dumb?!

Pilor error or not, depending on if was intentional or not. If not intentional then damn tĥey are f stupid !

It comes down to the fact that a child was in control

There was no way that Blackhawk did not see that plane. It look like it ram into it on purpose.

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Ba, ba,ba, it was all planned, don't be stupid,

Life happens, I understand that. But there's some things that should not happen again. I understand life happens to me. The accident looks to be intentional on the blackhawk

Why didn’t the military aircraft use TCAS when flying near a busy airport?

If only they removed the DEI program before this wreck happened.

Makes sense at 5 0 clock, yeah
Which plane. yeah she right
Hope she dont get in trouble with military 🪖😮

The airport should be in the more open space in the open field not in the city or close to the town or city.

ATC told the Blackhawk that the location of the CRJ they had to pass behind was over a bridge approximately 6 miles from their location, so apart from allowing visual separation in such a crowded air space I can't see how the lone ATC local controller could be at fault.

ATC is mostly to blame. "PAT25, turn left heading 090, you are on a collision course with an RJ." ATC cannot count on aircraft being at the assigned altitude because like in this case, aircraft deviate from assigned altitudes regularly. Human error is real for pilots, so to be safe, ATC must keep them horizontally separated. They can't assume anything because some conditions are not obvious, such as wind. A change of wind direction alone can act upon aircraft and drastically and rapidly change their altitude. Now that sounds like something you can't plan for, but you can, by keeping aircraft far enough apart, such changes in altitude do not cause a conflict, like we witnessed in this case. ATC has every option available; slow helicopter, redirect helicopter or cancel landing clearance of the RJ to clear the RJ out of the path of the helicopter if that aircraft needs priority, like the Army believes, or they wouldn't have helicopters on the final approach path of an active runway. The Army thinks they own the airspace or they wouldn't put black hawks in places where they don't belong. This accident is a failure from the top down. The route 4 corridor PAT25 was on might just be too wide and needs to be limited to the east river edge, without deviation. This accident will be repeated if ATC believes they do not have to provide horizontal separation of aircraft and the Army continues to believe they own the airspace.

CNN you suck

The plane was straight in front of helicopter, clear skys, how could they miss it?

The ATC controller very specifically said during the first call with that helicopter " Do you have the crj coming in south from the bridge coming down to runway 33" in sight.. Everyone keeps on talking about that plane that's taking off but the ATC controller said nothing about that plane taken off he said do you have the plane coming in from the south that's going to land on runway 33 says it clearly..

A US military plane also crash in southern Philippines

key safety systems were turned off apparently ....why would that be?

❤❤❤Thanks Elizabeth.❤❤❤

Typical CNN.
Every point she made is incorrect.

Ohhhh, so it WASN'a DEI, aka, Black pp issue l, after all, huh! Why was that said by the POTUS and other idiots!!!!😐🙄

It's a tragic loss of life. My heart goes out to the families.

Thank you very much for this very clear explanation.

she might be right. Situational awareness, read the instruments, and having the correct data inputs should get you home safe....

What about TCAS? Wasn't TCAS yelling at both pilots?? Why would ATC allow the helicopter to enter the airspace of a jet on the final approach? If the helicopter had an encoding altimeter that was working correctly, why didn't ATC let them know that they were at 350' instead of 200'? hmmm. Sad that so many people died when it was totally avoidable.

So basically the helicopter was wrong since they were flying too high