Originally published at: NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM JANUARY 30 2025
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 16:56 — 23.3MB)Well the news of the day and of the week is the sad airplane-helicopter mid-air collision over Reagan National Airport in Washington… Joseph has a few thoughts, most of which tend to the view of “tragic accident”, but a little of which seems highly incongruent…
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Just wanted to add here, as a military helio pilot, not me, the person flying the Black Hawk has 2 ATC people they can be possibly talking to. Their first chain of command in ATC is to the Military ATC in their ear. Which used to come out of Andrews, so not the closest to the scene.
Reminds me of “SkyKing” Richard Russel who hijacked the Horizon Air Q400 back around
7 years ago. He intentionally crashed the plane in to a small island, with the audio file between
himself and flight control widely available on the internet. The “collision danger” automatic alarm is plainly heard for the last 20 seconds or so and right up to the impact.
You can’t get in a newer car without it constantly warning you of potential hazards on all sides.
Can’t imagine the Helo not having something far superior…
Anything is possible but…
Edit: S2’s report is worth checking out:
I said that in another topic. IMO this crash is a first warning to Trump administration, especially now after the press conference when newly minted Sec of Defense had mention that Black Hawk was CoG.
Trump is trying to exert his power over CoG and they are not yielding.
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Radar sensors in aircraft are forward looking. I’m not aware of any rearward/sideways looking sensors on all but the most specialized craft. Any collision warning system installed on the plane could be a relatively easy software upgrade to existing sensors processors and displays. It will have the aperture limits of the basic radar installed in the nose of the craft (IDK what that is, but suspect it’s relatively narrow). So it’s unlikely any airline is going to spring for side looking / aft looking sensors for a crash avoidance system.
I’ve heard speculation that the helo pilot THOUGHT he had the aircraft in sight, but actually had another of several jets stacked for landing on that same runway and did not see the one he was being warned about. Also heard early on (have not heard repeated) that the pilot was using night vision devices. Again, these have a relatively narrow aperture so you can only see well a few degrees from the center of your line of sight. This means the helo pilot’s vision equipment could have prevented him from seeing the aircraft to his side he was about to impact.
I don’t know what is truth, just sharing some thoughts.
It was the helicopter that I assumed would have something in the way of radar, and 360 degrees at, that but forward in this case…
Personally, the information posted last night suggesting the helo pilot was an angry Trans
DEI hire with “rotor blades” to grind against the current administration tends to lean me in the
deliberate action group. Who knows?
Many thanks for the information though. I’m certainly no expert.
Incidentally, in S2’s report which I posted above, he illustrates that there was a last minute adjustment to landing at an alternate and rarely used runway along with a handful of other
possibles that might lean towards accident. I’m just not a fan of non-merit based pilots of any kind (with possible exception of the Skyking)
Runway number for flight was 33? Masonic signature for event?
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To be fair it’s the runway number point to 330 degrees, and the back azimuth of 150 degree, or would be labeled runway 15. The reason they are landing on runway 33 is cause the wind is probably out of the west or northwest. But, technically they are landing on runway 330… although ever airport labels just the first two numbers, hence the “33” here. There is also a Runway “33” at Cape Canaveral.
With what we have come to expect from any operation being run there are multiple levels and meaning, so, if it turns out this was done purposefully, then i wouldn’t put it past them to add in the mystical “33” from freemasonry for good measure.
I heard it’s a shorter runway they often use for the smaller jets when things are busy and no bad crosswinds.
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The angry DEI trans pilot of BH theory was debunked on X since yesterday at least.
Trump skillfully made a diversion towards incompetence of air traffic controllers. This is most likely multilayer intel op.
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As time goes on we get more people with flying expertise weighing in. This is the best debrief I’ve seen on the subject.
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info on the pilot is finally released. Seems to be what you’d expect. Commenters are saying she worked in the Public Relations dept of Biden admin, and many other derogatory things.
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I think it’s becoming clearer now and i can suppose with a little more confidence, Someone clearly changed the altimeter settings on that UH60, or PAT25. The left seat female pilot getting checked out on this particular training run and the right seat instructor didn’t take any evasive action. Clearly they were both comfortable flying, what in my opinion would be an acceptable altitude of 200 ft, under the landing aircraft. However, we know the tower data coming from Reagan showed them at 300ft, so the only thing that makes since is the altimeter in the UH60 was no properly set for the DC area.
Full supposition mode here.
She was dating someone with superior rank, or having an affair. Trump wins, she’s a Biden brat, she’s probably mouthy with her opinions, whoever was having this affair, saw a perfect opportunity to take out a possible future problem and make it look like an accident. Horrible yes, but unless the altimeter was mistakenly set wrong, someone got in there and changed prior to the flight!
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Delay the name of the pilot to allow enough time to sanitize her electronic trail and line up advocates…her supposed military best friend was (could be her lover, she claims to have liked each other upon first meeting and were planning a trip together next month, no mention of any body else going) her character witness. A very tight knit and small group…
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could be 100% remote controlled, bodies or no bodies on the Heli.
‘female pilot’ was lesbian who had a nice house in DC that she likely didn’t afford. she attended biden giving ralph lauren the ‘medal of freedom’
her father is deep in the NC university health scene (covid ofc among other things)
the skating team having connections to harding/kerrigan (who just popped back up in the prior week in a public way) - that’s a fun notnilc scream [https://youtu.be/YPJRwzlfj64]
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