re: Helicopter crash update

Incorrect the Blackhawk has a CVR

... something was going on, an undercurrent, during December and January. It was not just about a new regime, but something else.
That woman pilot was recruited from the get-go, not normal for black hawk. That 3rd passenger could have been a handler, to make sure procedure was followed. It happens, you just do not see it happening.

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Asra Hussain

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One of my friend’s relative by marriage. Sad stuff.

LINK

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Maybe, maybe not. Would be awfully nice to hear the cockpit recording to confirm.

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So when it gets released and like always the NYT had an accurate source.


You are going to agree she was not competent for night flying in DC, and that we need to investigate who pushed her into that unit, killing over 60 people?

Eta jbird already provided the release.

You need tell a woman to do the opposite of what is needed. Tell wife go right, bitch will always go left

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Which based on some posts I saw, when she was identified, was the minimum number of hours needed graduate Blackhawk pilot training is 500 hours.

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PAT25
The flight crew of PAT25 consisted of an instructor pilot (IP), pilot, and a crew chief. According
to information provided by the US Army, both pilots were current and qualified in the accident
helicopter. The IP held the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 2 and had accumulated about 968
total hours of flight experience, of which about 300 hours were in the accident helicopter make
and model. The pilot held the rank of Captain and had accumulated about 450 total hours of
flight experience, of which about 326 hours were in the accident helicopter make and model.
The crew chief held the rank of Staff Sargeant and had accumulated about 1,149 total flight
hours, all of which was in UH-60 helicopters.

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I still think in the final report we will hear about mismatched altimeters or incorrect altimeter setting.
Not suggesting that is causal but merely a contributing factor.

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Agreed, it was an incredibly dangerous route that had been previously flown by elite pilots for years successfully.

The altimeter mismatch may have forced them into the visual separation the chopper requested.

But the WO correctly assessed the visual route.

What he failed to do was realize that his inexperienced pilot was not up to the task.
He had only a couple seconds to realize that she was non responsible.

It wasn't enough.

We do know she got all kinds of boosts that a normal pilot with her record would not have gotten.

We really need to find out who put her there, who held her name back, who her partner was, and who scrubbed her profile.

My favorite story about a female pilot was told to me by a friend and coworker.

He was a captain on a regional jet with a younger female first officer. They had a navigation failure with their ILS equipment and had to do two missed approaches in low ceiling weather and he said she was absolutely useless. She made basically none of her required callouts and absolutely froze with fear. He was flying the aircraft, picking up the gear and flaps and talking on the radio to ATC.

He got vectors to another airport where the weather was barely VFR (visual flight rules) about 100 miles away and barely made it there with the fuel onboard.

When they landed and parked the aircraft, she broke down crying uncontrollably saying, “We could have died! We could have died!”

He grounded the airplane and called his chief pilot and told him what happened and said, “Get her off the line. She should not be flying.” She was taken off line and ordered back to training but resigned.