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

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That may be true but it's not funny. Not now, not in this press conference.

Trump's people have got to be exploding with anger behind the scenes right now because this is a political disaster for him. I am speechless that he just keeps going.

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Oh, Trump's not presidential enough? All the past presidential bullshite has brought him, and us, to the point of 'frick it.' If the previous admin were idiots, he can call them that. I don't care. Think of all the bullshite the left has said about Trump in places they shouldn't have. No one was left speechless over that.

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The CRJ was in a wing high, left turn for most of that - as they transitioned from RWY 1 to RWY 33.

Extremely unlikely they ever saw the helicopter, and even more unlikely - virtually impossible - for them to have executed an evasive maneuver to avoid a collision while in that configuration & airspeed. Gear down, flaps fully deployed, engines spooled way down.

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Tuscaloosa, thank you for posting from experience. I think it confirms what a lot of us suspected, but can't claim due to lack of direct knowledge.

My own impression would be the equivalent of running a railroad crossing with the train maybe a hundred yards away, and the airliner being the train.
At that moment, they have zero viable option- if they maneuver to avoid the collision with the helicopter (if they even saw them), they're still going to crash the plane. Either into the river or on the ground somewhere. Practical reality puts it on the helicopter at that moment, get out of the way or get hit.

Questions arise about ATC allowing the helicopter to be so close, but I no nothing of the protocols on that. It seems strange to run training missions in such close proximity to a civilian airport.... maybe the training involves being able to dart in and out of traffic. I don't know. But if so, it might be wiser to do so around a military airbase, instead of civilians. Does the Navy or Coast Guard run training missions on top of cruise liners coming into or out of dock? Seems like the same principle.

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Trump blaming Obama and Biden for changes in ATC. Not a good look in this moment.

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Trump's people have got to be exploding with anger behind the scenes right now because this is a political disaster for him

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his is a horrendous look for Trump and he deserves every bit of criticism that he's going to get from both voters and the media (left wing and right wing).

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really? just disastrous? exaggeration much?

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Wouldn’t they be in a right turn? I guess it would briefly be a left turn when they trued it up. Actually, they had to be on the LOC by the time they hit that altitude.

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They were on the Mt Vernon visual approach for RWY1 and switched to RWY 33 about 3 minutes out. Not really unusual based on departing traffic on RWY 1. Would be using visual of RWY at that point.

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Are you suggesting this was intentional? I don't think there's been any evidence, other than circumstantial, that this was intentional.

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I want a thorough explanation for what happened and want to see all the evidence. I’m never taking anyone’s word again when it comes to anything involving military

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Wouldn’t they be in a right turn? I guess it would briefly be a left turn when they trued it up. Actually, they had to be on the LOC by the time they hit that altitude.

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Yes - by that point they had turned final, which would mean they had just completed a left turn to align with the runway. Visual, not LOC though.

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RIP. So tragic and sad.

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Questions arise about ATC allowing the helicopter to be so close, but I no nothing of the protocols on that. It seems strange to run training missions in such close proximity to a civilian airport.... maybe the training involves being able to dart in and out of traffic. I don't know. But if so, it might be wiser to do so around a military airbase, instead of civilians. Does the Navy or Coast Guard run training missions on top of cruise liners coming into or out of dock? Seems like the same principle.

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It does.

Perhaps this has already been discussed, but I was listing to a congressman who was a flight surgeon for the military prior to becoming a congressman. As such, he flew on many Blackhawk missions (including training missions) in his career. He discussed the ATC telling the helicopter pilot to "go behind the CRJ". He noted there was a plane which appears to had just taken off from that runway prior to the crash and that, perhaps, the helicopter pilot was was mistaken as to which plane ATC was referring to and thought he WAS going "behind the CRJ"...which is why he takes a direct path into the CRJ he hit.

Be careful not to scrutinize Trump and his ill-timed mouth.

I got scourged last night for questioning his Truth Social post, which I thought was a bad look.

Love everything he has done policy-wise. But read the damn room.