#Air Disaster

[gwydionmisha]

Musk was angry Michael Whitaker had grounded his unsafe Space X rockets and correctly ordered an investigation after this happened:

Remember that time Reagan fired all the experienced Air traffic controllers and hired scabs and the rate of plane crashes went up for years?

[enriquemzn262]

28 of December 2024, a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 has crashed after an unsuccessful emergency landing in Muan, South Korea, reports state that 28 out of 181 onboard died in the crash.

The cause seems to be a bird strike after takeoff, but no further detail is known as of now.

[boymanmaletheshequel]

Reports are coming in of a midair collision over Reagan national airport in Washington DC between a D60 Pavehawk military helicopter and an American Airlines flight inbound from wichita. Both aircraft have crashed into the Potomac river. It is being said that the American flight was carrying 64 passengers and crew, and that the D60 was carrying 3 service members. As of now, all are believed deceased. This is just days after Donald trump fired the heads of staff at TSA, and disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, or ASAC. It is because of the defunding of critical government services like this by trump that more accidents like this will continue to happen. My heart is with the families of all who are likely dead, and I am both mournful and fascinated to see what the subsequent investigation reveals.

[aibidil]

Trump has been president for 9 days. On day 2 he gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee. He put a freeze on hiring at the FAA. Tonight a military helicopter crashed into an American Airlines jet and plunged into the Potomac

[flavinbagel]

A US Army helicopter crashed into a jet airliner

Everything we've so far seems to suggest that the Army is entirely responsible, and there's things I've learned from the days before this deadly accident that are just shocking.

CW: Mass Casualties.

I mentioned in an earlier post I reblogged that final reports on this incident wouldn't come for a while, that we would have to wait for a thorough investigation and report from the NTSB. For now, though, a lot of important details have been made available just through the recorded Air Traffic Control (ATC) audio regarding the mid-air collision over Washington DC's R**gan National Airport (DCA) between a CRJ-700 regional passenger jet and a Sikorsky UH-60 BlackHawk military helicopter. I firmly believe something is deeply wrong with how the US Army is operating--moreso than usual, I mean.

In this video, an airline captain does a fantastic breakdown of the radio communications/radar screen from this incident, (VIDEO OF THE COLLISION IS SHOWN) helping translate all the chatter and offer his insight. Basically, the Army Blackhawk helicopter was asking for "visual separation" from the tower, meaning it's all on the chopper to look out the window and not hit anything (in sky right-of-way, helicopters must yield to airplanes), and the tower let them do this while asking, "Hey you see that plane that's trying to land, right? Go behind him, ok?" and the chopper said they had the traffic in sight, but it seemed as if they were looking at a whole different plane, much further away. After all, these Army choppers are used to just kinda...doing whatever, and the controllers at DCA know this.

What gives this tragedy a sordid twist is when you see this series of events literally the day before, in which a (different) US Army helicopter very nearly does the same thing to a landing airliner at DCA, triggering the TCAS system on each plane... and then they do it twice more.

TCAS is basically an airplane's "if(goingToCrash){ dont(); }" system, which, if flying planes get close enough, feeds the pilots of both planes on a collision course opposing evasive maneuvers, called an RA. An RA occurring at all is cause for serious scrutiny in any event, because it means something else went terribly wrong. It also sets off alarm bells in the actual control tower. This shit has saved many lives.

In the video from the night before though, you can see the military helicopter ask for visual separation (familiar), fly so close to an airliner that they get an RA, continue flying right up the line of approaching planes, buzz past, and trigger an RA on TWO MORE landing airliners. That's three RAs from the TCAS system, almost like the army guys were playing connect-the-dots.

The following fateful night, this CRJ-700 was exactly where it was supposed to be: turning on a weird short final, focused on the runway, making sure the plane is landing safely without worrying about anyone getting in the way. Once you get low enough to the ground, TCAS shuts off (for complicated but pretty sound reasons) so these helicopter pilots did not have that last line of defense to lean against when they got as close as they did. If what I see is what I think I saw, I am disgusted at the cavalier mentality and behavior of these Army pilots. In the video with the three RAs the helicopter didn't even acknowledge what they'd done (over civilian radio, at least) as three airliners had to fly off and reset their approaches.

Now three Army soldiers and a whole plane full of innocent people, including members of the US figure skating team, have been needlessly killed. Obviously this was an accident, and one from which we will learn, but the more I learn about what happened the angrier I get.

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

Trump administration demands all aircraft now be fitted with bumpers to protect against mid air collisions

[ducksdoughnuts]

Yall, what’s up with all the recent air disasters?!?! I work in aviation and this shit is terrifying!!

[dirjoh-blog]

The Day the Music Died: The Tragic Loss of Rock and Roll Icons

On February 3, 1959, the world of rock and roll suffered an unimaginable tragedy when a small plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson crashed in a snow-covered field in Clear Lake, Iowa. This devastating event, immortalized in Don McLean’s 1971 hit song American Pie, is often referred to as “The Day the Music Died.” It marked the abrupt end of three…

[outta-my-tree]

In 1949, Albert Guay was found guilty of conspiring with siblings Marguerite Ruest Pitre and Genereux Ruest to blow up Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108 in order to kill Guay’s wife, Rita Morel. All passengers on board lost their lives. In addition to financial gain, Guay wanted to be free to pursue a romantic relationship with teenager Marie Ange Robitaille, pictured below. (Left: Robitaille and Guay)

“Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108, known as the Sault-au-Cochon Tragedy, was a Douglas DC-3 operated by Canadian Pacific Air Lines (registry CF-CUA S/N: 4518) that was blown up by a dynamite time bomb on 9 September 1949.” (Wikipedia)

The aftermath of the bombing of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108. All 23 people on board were killed. The bombing was the first attack on civil aviation in North America, Quebec, 1949

Albert Guay, Genereaux Ruest, and Marguerite Ruest Pitre were found guilty, and were sentenced to execution by hanging, making Marguerite Ruest Pitre the last woman executed in Canada.

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

[extrasardegnaabbandonata]

Non solo il mare sardo (ricordate il KT 12 di Orosei?) ospita relitti abbandonati: il nostro ricordo del disastro di Capoterra.

[melonthesprigatito]

Just wanna mention the two kids on their bikes who were STILL ON THE RUNWAY as everybody else was off to the side having barbecues.

Saw the big ass landing plane barreling towards them at 200mph, and started peddling like fuck away from it. (Pilot literally tried to swerve to avoid them and succeeded.)

Real life "Prometheus School of Running Away From Things" moment.

[c0rvid-19]

Well here come the 14th street bridge flashbacks https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79d7y0l03po

[trolledu]

https://www.the-sun.com/news/13173668/putin-apology-plane-crash-russian-missile/

[rumade]

Imagine if after they landed they had just dropped him and the fall killed him 😳

I think about British Airways Flight 5390 a lot