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Plane crash in DC plane and chopper in Potomac River (Sadly there were NO survivors)

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by Gator515151, Jan 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM.

  1. dynogator

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    Good old dave.
     
  2. vaxcardinal

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    To be fair, Trump thought Barrett was a women
     
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  3. wgbgator

    wgbgator Premium Member

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    Yeah that's the one
     
  4. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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    your base position should be to question everything he says. you will find that 99% of it is factually incorrect. spoken with 1000% confidence, after all, it's just common sense.
     
  5. G8trGr8t

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    and yet we still have a judge cannon. even at that level, there were undoubtedly hundreds of more qualified candidates.
     
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  6. G8trGr8t

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    fly behind the plane.

    from what I have seen, it appears that he was lined up to fly behind the departing plane and not the inbound plane, may have raise din altitude and move to right to avoid jet wash from departing plane. i think the heli pilot missed the incoming traffic part from atc. jmo

    also note that the public info like FlightAware etc the elevation info is questionable and more so at lower elevations
     
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  7. VAg8r1

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    Shouldn't be that surprising since only 7% of the pilots employed by US airlines are women. I don't recall being on a flight with a female captain although I've been on flights with female first officers, the first one being a United flight from Washington Dulles to Amsterdam. I recall the guy to which you were referring. His name was Dave, if I recall he flew 737s for a charter company although he was previously employed by an airline.
     
  8. VAg8r1

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    She was a female pilot with over 500 hours of flight time. At the request of her family the DOD is not releasing her name, understandable since she would undoubtedly be the subject of a smear campaign by the right-wing media and maybe even by the current POTUS.
     
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  9. tilly

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    No, but thats a big part of it. But Christians align more with conservatives on things like abortion, marriage, gender, sexuality, Israel, religious liberty and many others.
     
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  10. WarDamnGator

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    huh… because there are a ton of sites now calling Andrew Eaves the helicopter pilot… are there two pilots onboard or something?
     
  11. VAg8r1

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    There were two pilots and a crew chief. Andrew Eaves was one of the two pilots.
    Army withholds name of Black Hawk helicopter crew in D.C. crash, 2 others identified
    The Army has identified two of the three soldiers killed in Wednesday's crash outside a busy Washington, D.C. airport. The three-person crew was on board a Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines passenger jet carrying 64 people.

    The soldiers identified are Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O'Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Ga. and Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, of Great Mills, Md.

    The third crew member on the helicopter was a female pilot with 500 hours of flying experience, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation. The Army is withholding the pilot's name at the request of her family.
     
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  12. duggers_dad

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    Eclipses aren’t a thing anymore what with Trump’s capacity to block the Sun.
     
  13. ATLGATORFAN

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    Well of course you’d consider yourself the authority of quality vs non quality reasons. CG definitions of quality reason = what he agrees with. CG definition of non quality is what he doesn’t agree with. Putting and keeping hubris on full display
     
  14. citygator

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    Charlotte
    Yet when the right doesn’t like a woman or black candidate they don’t react by deferring to the hiring president. Your malleable values are shiny and pretty.
     
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  15. gator_jo

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    Yes, you're correct.

    Matt Gaetz - US Atty General
    Pete Hegseth - SecDef
    Kristi Noem - Head of DHS
    Tulsi Gabbard - Director of Natl Intelligence
    RFK Jr. - Dir of HHS

    Not a freaking one of them is qualified.

    And yes - you're 100% correct. I'm an authority on that. In fact, anyone is. In further fact, for Gabbard, the qualifications are explicitly cited in her presumed job description and she is legally not qualified.

    So, yeah - thanks for finally making an accurate comment.
     
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  16. VAg8r1

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    Not surprising considering that he is one rather large human being.
     
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    Trump’s “I know it was a DEI hire because I have common sense” comment is aging like milk
     
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    Screenshot_20250131_214635_Outlook.jpg
     
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  19. mdgator05

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    It sounded better than "I know it was a DEI hire because I am racist and sexist and figured it couldn't be a white guy."
     
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  20. chemgator

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    It was surprising that the helicopter pilot did not respond to instructions from ATC. So if there was some confusion, there was no attempt to clear it up.

    A pilot’s view on why helicopter did not avoid passenger jet in Washington crash