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Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/dca-crash-jan-29-special-report/
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Just now:
Ummmm holy hell #Trump just doubled/tripled/quadrupled [I’ve lost count] down on saying #AirTrafficContollers were required to be “intellectually deficient” under #Biden #DEI agenda.This muther f⁕⚠︎er!!!
argh!!!!!
#AA5342 #USpol #labor #law #ADA #trumpaganda #idiocracy #TrumpLies #FactCheck #bigotry #hate #discrimination #ableism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy
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Really solid video on the DC crash. Seems to indicate the military helicopter had exceeded it's flight ceiling.
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CW: Air Crash
Briefing on recovery operations for Potomac River mid-air collision #AA5342 #AvGeek
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The streak nobody wanted to see end
Doing anything with a 100 percent success rate is hard, and maintaining that perfect record for almost 16 years in a row is exponentially harder. And yet that’s what the U.S. airline industry had accomplished until Wednesday evening: year after year of having every scheduled takeoff conclude with the plane landing in one piece.
I wanted that streak to continue forever while realizing how improbable that would be. What I did not expect was that it would end a few miles from my house in a fireball over the Potomac River, just east of the airport I’ve probably flown in and out of more than any other in the world.
Wednesday night’s fatal mid-air collision between an American Airlines-marketed CRJ700 regional jet and a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, about 2,000 feet off Runway 33 at National Airport, happened close enough that I might have seen it firsthand had I been outside somewhere at the time.
Some of the thousands of Washingtonians and Arlingtonians who live in buildings overlooking DCA did witness the collision and will never be able to unsee it.
That is chilling to contemplate, though not nearly as upsetting as thinking about the 67 lives lost and how close the 64 passengers and crew on AA 5342 were to wheels down on that runway1.
The first fatal crash of a U.S. airline since February of 2009–and the first involving National Airport since the crash of Air Florida 90 just over 43 years ago, notwithstanding how busy National has become and how many helicopters whir around its airspace–is a horrible break with the culture of safety in U.S. commercial aviation.
People may assume that culture just happens, but it has taken an immense amount of sustained, selfless work. Airlines, airports, air traffic control and government regulators have combined to construct and operate a marvelously complicated machine that transports vast numbers of people–more than 819 million domestic passengers on U.S. carriers in 2023–and almost never fails in a way worse than a delayed or canceled flight.
Car and truck travel, meanwhile, resulted in nearly 41,000 deaths in 2023; the comparison with scheduled air travel is so unflattering that it might look fake. More than once, I’ve said to other people, only somewhat in jest, “If you want to live forever, get on an airplane.”
A critical part of aviation’s culture of safety is documenting what went wrong. Not as in President Trump’s ignorant, bigoted, and hateful press-conference rantings, but as in a National Transportation Safety Board report that will lay out in precise and agonizing detail what factors brought those two aircraft to their deadly intersection, so that everybody in the aviation industry will know what they can do to make sure those things never happen again.
- Via my habit of window-seat photography, it looks like I last had a flight use Runway 33 in November of 2023, departing Washington for LaGuardia. The picture above shows 33 as seen from a departure off Runway 4 in a United Airlines-marketed CRJ550–a conversion of the CRJ700 to add more first-class and Economy Plus seats. ↩︎
#AA #AA5342 #AmericanAirlines #AmericanEagle #Blackhawk #cultureOfSafety #DCA #H60 #NationalAirport #PSA #safestWayToTravel
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"‘Heartbreaking’ search for those killed in DC air crash as army helicopter’s black box recovered" by @AssociatedPress - Remains of 41 recovered from the Potomac River so far. Next of kin notified for 18. There will be no passenger/crew names published until families are notified first. https://apnews.com/article/ronald-reagan-national-airport-crash-325edc6c0c2439dd6c1e73a81e382c0e #aa5342 #aviation #travel #avgeek
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Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Eaves, had 1,000 hours of flight time, which is considered experienced. The co-pilot, whose name is being withheld, had 500 hours, which is considered normal.
Officials also tell NPR that the #BlackHawk was supposed to be flying at a maximum of 200 feet, though sources say it was flying at least 100 feet higher. All requested anonymity given the sensitivity of the investigation.
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Horrible:
#Disinformation on #socialmedia falsely claims she was a #transgender pilot from the Virginia National Guard named Jo Ellis. Ellis has posted a "proof of life" video on Facebook, denouncing the rumors & offering condolences to those killed in the crash.
#FactCheck #MAGAlies #bigotry #hate #AA5342 #Army #BlackHawk #helicopter
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Army IDs 2 names of the #BlackHawk #helicopter crew in DC #crash withholds 1
The Govs of GA & MS have identified 2 of the BlackHawk helicopter crew killed in a collision w/ #AA5342 at #ReaganNationalAirport on Wed night. They are Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Eaves, & Staff Sgt Ryan O'Hara.
At the request of the family the #Army is not going to release the name of the female member of the 3-person helicopter crew.
[probably because #Trump would attack her as a DEI hire]https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5281246/pentagon-jet-military-helicopter-collision
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Emotivní vzkaz obětem na břehu řeky Potomac u Reaganova letiště. Do ní se po střetu zřítila vojenská helikoptéra s letadlem American Airlines. Víc dnes v Událostech. #aa5342
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The latest from our team at The Air Current is an analysis of Trump's remarks on Wednesday's mid-air collision and how they could undermine the global standing of the #NTSB. Political interference harms rather than helps #aviation #safety investigations. No paywall! #AA5342 https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/trump-dca-disaster-news-analysis-icao-annex-13/
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Seems like a well informed look at the aviation aspects of the DC air collision.
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Remembering the figure skaters who died in the plane crash over the #Potomac. It's not the first time that a generation of American figure skaters and coaches were lost.
#AmericanAirlines #AA5342“The Most Somber Incident in Figure Skating History Has Repeated Itself“ by Patricia Vicary on Medium: https://medium.com/beyond-the-scoreboard/the-most-somber-incident-in-figure-skating-history-has-repeated-itself-bd86273457f4
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Trump’s FAA Plan QUICKLY BACKFIRES in HIS FACE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8vkfhPCjC0 #Trump #ElonMusk #FAA #AA5342
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Just 24 hours before the collision of American Eagle Flight #AA5342 & an Army #BlackHawk #helicopter near #ReaganNationalAirport on Wednesday, another jet trying to land there had to make a second approach after a helicopter appeared near its flight path, according to an audio recording from #ATC.
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#Aerotelegraph - Unglück in Washington: Ein Lotse machte im Zeitpunkt der Kollision Job von zwei - https://www.aerotelegraph.com/ein-lotse-machte-im-zeitpunkt-der-kollision-job-von-zwei #FlughafenRonaldReaganNational #AmericanAirlines #BombardierCRJ700 #Sicherheit #AA5342 #N709PS #Video
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"American Airlines crash ends era of unprecedented US airline safety" by The Air Current (no paywall due to air safety topic) / @jonostrower @willguisbond @elanhead - 16 years since Colgan Q400 crash in Buffalo. 12 years since Asiana 777 crash at SFO. For years industry safety efforts led to a long gap in major airline crashes in USA. Since pandemic-era disruptions, stress on airlines & aviation infrastructure showed signs of decline. https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/american-5342-crash-ends-era-unprecedented-us-airline-safety/ #aa5342 #aviation #travel #avgeek
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@froomkin
The Lever: Transportation Secretary and former Rep. Sean Duffy voted for airline-backed legislation to expand flight traffic at #NationalAirport, despite dire safety warnings about heavy air traffic…
Jan 29, 2025 Before D.C. Airport #Collision, Lawmakers Brushed Off Warnings, Boosted Flights
Despite midflight near-misses & dire pleas, airline-bankrolled lawmakers expanded flight traffic at Washington’s busy airport
https://www.levernews.com/before-d-c-airport-collision-lawmakers-brushed-off-warnings-and-boosted-flights/
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#Aviation is still the safest way to move from A to B, and by very far. A key reason why is because accidents like #AA5342 have been thoroughly & independently investigated, and these investigations have led to important industrywide corrective actions. In our business, it's #SafetyFirst & always.
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Holy crap! Asked by a reporter how, before the investigation has concluded, #Trump can conclude that #diversity was to blame for the #crash.
His response: “Because I have common sense.”
#racist! #racism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #Heterosexism
#AA5342 #AmericanAirlines #Flight5342 #ReaganNationalAirport
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#Trump suggested that the US #Army #helicopter was at fault in the crash, saying that while the pilots of the plane were “doing everything right,” the helicopter that struck it was “going at an angle that was unbelievably bad.”
“We had a situation where we had a helicopter that had an ability to stop,” he said, somewhat mysteriously. “You could have slowed down the helicopter, you could have stopped the helicopter,”or gone up or down he said. “For some reason, it just kept going.”
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There is no evidence, at least yet, to suggest that the air traffic controllers were at fault in the crash.
“We do not know what led to this crash, but we have some very strong opinions & ideas,” #Trump said.
He blamed the #Obama admin for the quality of air traffic controllers that Trump inherited during his 1st term, saying he needed to make sure they were of “superior intelligence.” The #Biden admin, he said, “Changed them back to lower than ever before.’
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Revolting pig
#Trump is now speaking about the #AmericanAirlines crash. It is his first appearance in the briefing room since his White House return.
He immediately goes from *mourning* the victims to political attacks. He assails fmr Transportation Sec Pete Buttigieg as “a disaster,” blaming him for #diversity objectives at the FAA. The inference is that diversity = incompetence.
#AA5342 #AmericanAirlines #Flight5342 #ReaganNationalAirport
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#US & #Russian #FigureSkaters Among #Passengers on Crashed Jet
Members of the U.S. figure skating community were traveling on the commercial jet that collided with a military helicopter outside Washington.
US Figure Skating, the American governing body for the sport, said the skaters were returning from a training camp following the national figure skating championships, held in Wichita, KS. Russian figure skaters—as well as other Russian citizens—were among those on the plane.
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City of Wichita holding media briefing on AA5342 crash.
"If you believe you may have loved ones on Flight 5342, call American Airlines toll-free at 800-679-8215. Those calling from outside the U.S. can visit news.aa.com for additional phone numbers."
https://www.ksn.com/news/local/wichita-officials-provide-information-on-plane-crash-in-d-c/
