Look I have no idea what happened last night in DC. Like virtually EVERYBODY on X posing about this! They weren’t there either. It’s fine to have construct conversation based on what information we have. But anything else is horrible. It’s a tragedy. We should be worrying about the families that got woken up and told their loved ones won’t be coming home.
The left as the left does and sickly blames it on Trump. Well it takes 2-3 years to train a new Air Traffic Controller. They get more training than pilots and they should. That a high stress can’t make a mistake job.
The tin foil hat crew say it’s weird.
So let me tell you my thoughts as an actual UH-60 pilot that flew them for almost all of my 30 years serving this country.
The official report was the Blackhawk was on a training flight. The 12th AVN BN operates in that airspace daily. They have routine training flight all the time. I have personally flown that exact route doing training flights and the rare flight there picking up and dropping passengers off…in a UH-60. It’s totally normal. It’s totally legal. It’s totally what is done. The flight could have been what’s called a LAO local area orientation flight. Kind of like a familiarization of the local flying area. Could have been a check ride where one pilot if giving another pilot a test that is done annually as part of their training requirements. It could have been just a normal old training flight. Pilots have to fly and Army pilots have flight hour minimums they have to meet each year. No mission? Need hours. Training flight. So those saying why were they or that they can’t do that. Yes they can.
This BS I’m seeing from the tin foil hat crew….
I hear “OMG they left Langley it’s a CIA false flag”. Or some variation. Not likely but could be who knows. But for the crew of the Blackhawk and the passengers on the plane they didn’t have anything other a horrible chain of events that ended tragically.
So I’m seeing…
“Omg it was on purpose”. I’ve actually seen this being posted. Who knows could have happened but I would bet my paycheck it was not the case. But it doesn’t help anyone to be saying that and think of the family’s who see that BS. IF YOU THINK THAT SHAME ON YOU.
Let’s break it down for the conspiracy theorist that have no aviation experience in the military or anywhere else.
So you have Langley AFB, Ft Eustis and all the Navy bases there. But yes the CIA is there too oh my! Again totally normal for a training flight to go to these places. Not so much the CIA but operational mission could go there.
Take the tin foil off your head and think about the families who lost their loved ones.
What I’ve seen looking at this.
The Helicopter low level corridor the Black hawk was on has a max altitude of 200 feet. Reader showed them both at 300 feet at the time of impact. ATC was talking to them both. Asked the Blackhawk if they saw them. They said yes and were pretty much told to avoid the plane. This is normal and ATC did what they were required from what I saw. The altitude of 300 for the helicopter is an issue but the investigation will look at and verify it.
Let me tell you though, a 100 foot altitude change in a Blackhawk can take place in a few seconds. And at night even with night vision goggles it’s easier than you think to miss an aircraft in the city lights at that altitude. Imagine it happening flying at 100+ miles an hour at night while flying, navigating and talking on the radios in that order.
Again do I know what the pilots were thinking, saying or doing. No, and no one else does either.
Left you are demonic for saying Trump had anything to do with this. Conspiracy theorist just keep it to yourself until more info comes out from the investigation.
And all of you think about the family’s who are going through the worst day of their life right now. Have a freaking heart and keep the BS off this platform.
So sad all of it.