It is a little. They won't feel vacancies because qualified applicants aren't meeting certain "qualifications" so they are short staffed. With this, it was all in control of the Blackhawk pilot in not going above the ceiling. If they would have followed that, this is just another in many close calls because for some reason we allow military training in airspace that belongs to commercial jets.
I'm not ready to go there but dei has no place when it should be merit. I want the best qualified do the job. Period
He was instructed to fly “behind” a plane and might have confused the instructions with the departing plane. 😕
I don't trust DEI hires to make my Big Mac's. Let alone land my fvcking planes. Hire the best for the job. Period.
Don’t know. My brother-in-law would tell you that new hires were not always the best hires. The controllers assigned to Reagan should be some of the best. Staffing has been a problem.
She. Not that it matters but I thought I heard copter pilot was a she
They said there was only 1 controller in charge of the planes and Choppers instead of the normal 2. So short staffed.
I didn’t wildly speculate on the cause of the crash. I’ve watched several hours of local coverage on DC stations starting minutes after the crash. Everybody is searching for and want answers. There’s more to than just “the chopper pilot was too high”.
Haven’t heard that and the sex of the pilot really doesn’t matter. The onboard pilot had at least 6 years of experience according to TV reports.
So what evidence do you have that the airline pilot or the age of the plane had anything to do with crash?
You think he actually has a relative who is an air traffic controller? Lol. This guy magically has a friend or relative for any story he needs to make up.
I don’t know. But my brother-in-law practiced medicine for 40+ years, and I never thought it qualified me to deliver babies or diagnose diseases.
Another brother-in-law has been a Delta pilot for over 20 years. They don’t put the A team on those smaller jets. Generally they’re younger more inexperienced pilots. He started flying cargo planes then these kind of smalker passenger planes before getting to carry more passengers. The plane itself is old but airworthy but might lack technology available in bigger planes.
He’s retired now. Believe it or not I don’t make sh## up. There were 7 kids in my family.
Yeah the pilots cut their teeth on CRJ types and move up with seniority and retraining
I love the internet. So fascinating. It's going to ruin this country, but what a wild ride before it does.
Believe what you want. I had 4 sisters. 2 brothers. 5 of us left. All college grads. 1 RN, 2 lawyers, 1 science teacher, myself and a business grad. We didn’t marry deadbeats. You can call me Dr if you want.
I didn’t say I don’t believe you. But I don’t give a shit if your uncles were the Wright Brothers - doesn’t mean you know any more about what caused the crash than anyone else here.
If you stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, then your word is good with me.
I have shared insight from an air traffic control supervisor and a commercial pilot. Stay classy. There are clearly some questions about instructions given by the controller and their timeliness. The “fly behind”instruction is normally used in daylight hours.
Marriot this week. Had dinner overlooking the Potomac tonight.
maybe the choppers need to pay attention to the ceiling level. If that chopper stays at the level its likely another near miss . I agree it’s a problem that has to be fixed. And sometimes it takes a tragic accident unfortunately.
I think the question is whether the controller’s instruction to “fly behind” the plane was misinterpreted to fly behind the departing flight. In that case he maybe might have elevated to avoid the departing plane’s flight path. According to one pilot on TV, the controller instructions were questionable.
Doesn't give them (2 of the crew were female) permission to breach the ceiling in Class B airspace. They were almost double AGL they are allowed when impact was made. Right by a runway. I am shocked they are allowed to go over 50 feet honestly. Class A is anything above 18,000 feet. Class B are major airports that look like an upside down wedding cake where the airport claims airspace in layers. Class C are regional like Eppley. I live in the outskirts of that airspace and if I want to fly my drone I need real time LAANC authorization on the Autopylot app. If I set the radius to 6 blocks out or more, I cannot go above 200 feet. If I stay under I can go up to 400. That Blackhawk is responsible for the deaths of those on that plane.
There is more. One more. They are supposed to hug the east side of the river and they were right smack dab in the middle of it. By a major international airport that is Class B airspace.
It appears that way but the instructions from the controller were problematic as well. The instruction to “fly behind” at night with two planes in the immediate area wasn’t good. Wouldn’t the controller have their (the chopper) elevation.? The military chopper I saw on Tuesday in that exact area couldn’t have been more than 200’ over the river. It’s been determined that one controller was manning 2 positions at the time of the crash. I’m not going to comment on their sexes because the photo I saw pictures of one left some question.
