re: Looks like a plane hit a Helicopter at DCA airport

Cascadia doing his best Michael Jackson impersonation from south park.

No that's just ignorant.

You are ignorant.

Stop being so ignorant

More vague appeals to vague authority and opaquely claimed “known facts.”

You’re starting to just sound like a troll. Put some meat on the bones of your claim.

Of course it’s ok to critique the President.

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He points out that the plane looked like it was landing normally, no issues. This appears to be true based on the video.

He points out that the helicopter was driving straight (not ascending or descending) towards the plane for a long period of time. Also appears true from the video.

Then he points out the night was clear with no visibility issues, also true.

He then asks why the helicopter didn’t move to avoid a plane that it looks like it was driving toward for quite some time. He then asks why traffic control didn’t tell the helicopter to reduce or increase altitude (instead of just saying hey don’t you see that plane?)

These are all very good questions that don’t necessarily imply this was intentional. He’s implying that someone messed up royally at least. Regardless, these are all fair questions.

Yes, bodies are still being pulled from the river but you better bet I’d be asking those questions if that were my family and I’d expect our leaders to be doing the same.

Love him or hate him, but he’s not gonna sit around and let PR prepped statements get in the way of asking the tough questions Americans and the families will be asking and deserve to know.

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Nowhere did I say it was theAE pilots either.

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Then what are you going on about? You agree with DJT that AA pilots were doing exactly has expected. So like Trump said, and everyone in the country is asking, how do the heli go straight into that plane, and why didnt ATC correct that?

There is nothing in that statement that sounds ignorant. And for damn sure the families dont think its ignorant, and wanna know now, not 4 weeks from now, when someone is finally going to be thrown under the bus

The only person on here sounding ignorant are the "think of the families", and Trump needs to wait on information that we all know is trying to be 'massaged' as we speak. You just seem pissed that Trump isnt playing footsie with the ATC or military PR teams. Makes you look ignorant, actually

Latest updates
(CBS News)
* Search efforts continue in the Potomac River after a plane with 60 passengers and 4 crew on board collided in midair with an Army Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.
* At least 18 bodies had been recovered by 11:30 p.m. ET, a police official at the scene told CBS News.
* The plane, American Eagle flight 5342, had taken off from Wichita, Kansas, and was approaching for landing when the collision occurred.
* "The water is dark, 'murky' about 8 feet deep, and contains pieces of ice. It's just dangerous and hard to work in. And because there's not a lot of lights, you're out there searching every square inch of space."
* Reagan National Airport will remain closed until at least 11 a.m
* Russian figure skaters and coaches Shishkova and Naumov were on board,
(NBC News)
* U.S. Figure Skating: ‘Several members of our skating community’ on crashed plane
(ABC News)
* DC-area hospitals report 'no patients' from crash
(Fox News)
* We can confirm that the aircraft involved in tonight’s incident was an Army UH-60 helicopter from Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion, out of Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir during a training flight
* Fire and EMS Chief John A. Donnelly, Sr., said there are currently about 300 responders working at the scene.
(CNN)
* Air traffic controller audio obtained by CNN from LiveATC.net captured air traffic control operators directing the helicopter to pass behind the passenger plane. An air traffic controller said, “PAT 2-5 do you have the CRJ in sight?” The controller then said, “PAT 2-5 pass behind the CRJ.”

Additional air traffic control audio shortly before the collision captures the helicopter pilot saying, “PAT 2-5 has aircraft in sight, request visual separation.” Less than 13 seconds later, the audio then captured audible gasps, including a loud “oooh” in the background apparently from the tower, at the moment of the crash.