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Link to video (crash is the lights on the bottom). Obviously trigger warning for a mass casualty event. https://x.com/MatthewJshow/status/1884791272369541211
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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It was a blackhawk. The various fed agencies apparently fly helis up and down the potomac day and night. It's usual. Helo was operating visually, was instructed by the tower to cross behind the aircraft on approach. They reported the aircraft in sight, but obviously whatever they saw was something else.
There have been so many close calls over the past couple of years at American airports, and atc is wildly understaffed. This one is squarely on the helo pilots, but a collision has been bound to happen soon.
Aircraft flying up and down through an active approach path needs to stop immediately. And hopefully something is done to address the staffing issues with atc. This is scary.
Yeahh we're gonna do some cutbacks, make it more efficient. Leaner. Meaner. Cleaner. Cheaper.
“More efficient” meaning “minimal staff” has been true in business, and presumably government agencies, for years. It’s fucked.