Passenger Plane and Black Hawk Helicopter Collide In Mid-Air Over Potomac River
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy7kxx74yxlt

Update: There are no survivors

Dear lord, what a ****ing car crash of a briefing :roll:

is he gonna blame everything on DEI in his 4 years?

no, that was that mayoral 'press conference' that took all the important people who should have been at the crash site, to stand behind her so she could look important. while, at the same time, giving us NOTHING new about the situation.

I'm not blaming DEI here, I think this one might be terrorism. that helicopter headed STRAIGHT toward the plane. and should not have been training near an active airport.

and quite frankly, diverse hires ARE lacking in brain power. You need not look further than Kamala Harris.

I mean, are we just suddenly forgetting the last couple of years of DEI pilots/co-pilots? You know, pressing the wrong buttons and almost crashing plane after plane? This was all over the news time and again and the airline practices of this were largely exposed. I don't see the question being asked now in this instance as some kind of "bombshell."

here is that DEI that Trump wants to blame for this accident


https://i.imgur.com/62NgcTv.png

God you guys are so easy.

-sigh-
It does work if the testing and licensing standards changes impacted any tests because of DEI that any pilots took amidst lower standards to get POC's in place.

You guys really don't get it. You just aren't capable of having the conversation on the levels it requires - it's just one after the other of responses of the lowest common denominator. It's the same leftist brain-trust who took up the argument that "autism does not make you give a Nazi salute" - a point that literally no one actually made but was the easiest assault of nonsense to chew on and spit out.

90% of the time I have anything to say to some of you people it literally has to be about pointing out the way to have a conversation instead of addressing any point whether it's right or wrong. Just so much to unpack with some of you guys just to attempt the conversation somewhere down the road.

It's f'n hysterical.... And for the one or two of you logic-twisters who read this and now want to latch onto that I'm "condescending and holier than thou", I would point out that I don't have to do this in normal spaces and that in-fact the problem is more likely that you're just f'n @$$hole haters.

It was a wreck of a briefing. Just presented very poorly.

The plane was on an approved and frequently used approach pattern to the airport. This is, in my opinion, almost certainly on the helicopter pilot screwing up.

The majority of DEI hires were women (only 4% black) so… you’re basically saying women in work are dumb?

It's quite something to hear or read him babbling and bulls***ing his way through stuff like he always does while talking about "psychological quality" and claiming he has common sense.

Trump came off as a fumbling retard if that article was accurate.

"It was THE DEI cause trust me bro. We need the big brain power on that there fancy powerful computers. Very powerful computers. Yes I know the best big brain people and the best powerful computers"

Ah dude, you're making it too easy for him.

Liberal clownism strikes again with zero productive input and more bull$#!(.
Yet more evidence that you have nothing in conversation that is valid and rely on these tactics to get by.

Pure technodromer right there.

the ones hired usually tend to be. easily controlled idiots.

Can you please cite some sources.

Crew chief of the helicopter was a white male. Other crew members not yet named.
The instructor had over 1000 hours experience.

Seemly DEI played no part in this tragedy, on the part of the helicopter.

Dang, a figure skating coach from (formerly?) the local university and two young kids, both with promising skating careers, who he was a coach to all died in it.


https://www.delawareonline.com/story...y/78058508007/

https://www.delawareonline.com/gcdn/...pjpg&auto=webp

Total DEI hire. Clearly there were too many Hispanics in the airline business so they need to hire at least one whiteboy for diversity purposes. And over 1000 hours? Pfff. Rookie whiteboy numbers. Who was the pilot, Vanilla Ice?

Conspiracy or not, I've seen a plot of the helicopter flight path in the minutes before the accident. It looked like it was trying to head towards other planes in the area, but hadn't got the correct altitude. So... possible suicide by helicopter?

Which further emphasises my previous comment that the plane pilot appears completely innocent in this, and quite likely the airport controllers too.

the latest rumor is that supposedly there was a transgender aboard with suicidal tendencies. if that is the case, then trump was right again.

however, that doesn't explain why the other two trainees didn't react and do something.

Which has been shot down (no pun intended) from what I’ve read, wrong identification.

The analysis I’ve seen suggests the pilot was concentrating on the other plane you see in the video footage and was completely unaware of the other plane coming up to their left.

How is EVERYTHING politicized these days?

That's what happens when you routinely deal with the life-angry and non self-actualized. Everything is galvanized for any number of reasons related to maladaptive psychology. Also, the internet gives your standard provocateur-bitch anonymity so you can add cowardice to stupidity and the end result is "Troll".

That literally defines at least three of the routine users here on the boards. Politicizing everything means they don't have to look at themselves at all - too busy putting energy into strange trolling or rage against "the orange man".

What's even funnier is that they honestly believe to their core that we don't know this....

Another Airplane crash

https://i.imgur.com/kGB93DP.png

Probably too scared they'd be cancelled if they so much as risk hurting his/her feelings. "Um heeeeyyy maybe one of us should take the wheel?" "TRANSPHOBIA!!!"


In all seriousness though, another plane crash in Philly???? DEI or not, what's going on? Are white people suddenly forgetting how to fly planes?

I have in fact forgotten how to fly one, yes. Wait.

Really though, wtf Philly. Better be a terrible coincidence. I doubt a military helicopter training was any kind of purposeful act, but who knows about this one... sad coincidence or someone else tying to be a headline?

Edit: Never mind, it was a medical flight taking a child to another state. :(

Because it allows them to push their agendas and pad their wallets.

"We know they are lying.
They know they are lying,
They know that we know they are lying.
We know that they know that we know they are lying.
And still they continue to lie."
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Kid and her mom on board were from Mexico (likewise the crew, a doctor, and a paramedic), headed home after she was threated for a life-threatening illness at Shriners Children’s Hospital. That poor kid had to fight to live...and then life just said "f*** you" anyway. So sad.

Oof, the videos... that poor plane went down like a missile.

Beautiful post!

People raging online conspiracy the third pilot name not revealed yet. Overlooking next of kin must be informed, and possibly have not, especially if the database had say her parents, and they’ve died since it was last updated. But everyone loved a good conspiracy.

I’m just patiently waiting here for some actual non politicised facts to be said.

it's interesting how we've found out VERY quickly who was on that medical plane that 'crashed'. but we still don't know who was on the helicopter 'accident.''

Well I meant, white pilots since 'no DEI' is pretty much code for 'all pilots must be white... for some reason'.

The names of the helicopter pilot and the third crew member were mentioned within 48hr, we know who they were. We don’t know who the copilot was.

Because nowadays everybody has been separated and classified by groups and boxes. Everyone is expected to act the same way based on their group or box, and if you happen to be a member of said group or box, everyone assumes your politics align a certain way.

I can't tell you how many people I met in real life that just can't 'compute' that I don't like overly woke stuff in media but still would never vote for Trump.

So nowadays if this pilot is anything but white, they're gonna gonna with 'IT WUZ TEH DEIs'. Wasn't the pilot white anyway?

dEI means 'Didn't earn it'.

Kathleen Kennedy. she started as a cofee getter for most of the powerful men in hollywood. she married one of those men. and got 'promoted'. even speilburg said she was terrible at her job, but she kept on going up.
Now, we see how good she is on her own, and she's terrible without the men.

THIS is a DEI hire. not just because they are not white.

Yeah, I know, was just joking since it sounded like a general comment. :twink:


People went all DEI inclusive by electing someone with narcissism and other personality disorders to be president, but he has an issue with inclusion, so maybe he should fire himself.

Not exactly uncommon for family to be given advantages, even when not deserved. People just get handed positions in the family business (or White House positions they had no business being in last time!) or inherit the wealth a smarter parent built and then Jr. isn't any good at it and causes the whole thing to crash. (Trump may not be giving the jobs to his kids this time, but he's still handing them out to people who aren't qualified but just because they are willing to kiss his ass.)

DEI should absolutely hire only qualified people. But minorities, etc who exist within that qualified group should have equal chance... but society has often had a hard time doing that and that's the point.


Edit: If you have kneejerk gut feelings that someone who doesn't look like you isn't someone you want to work with/around or that someone of the opposite sex is inherently less capable despite qualifying... yeah.

No worries, there are places it can affect men (including white ones), too. Would be teachers? Some people are too inclined to see pedos around every corner these days, better not hire men, they might be more likely to touch the kids, right? Yeah, that's horrible not to give that chance to guys whose heart is in teaching and are qualified for the job. (And women assumed more trustworthy, given that advantage, but then some commit those crimes.) Same thing with male nurses if someone doing the hiring is likely to see men as less capable of being caring toward patients.

The employees who sent the video of the crash to CNN have been arrested. Okay… more going on than we know here? It’s the 2025 version of the JFK grassy knoll…

is there some rule against that? I mean, people would have asked for it eventually.

and cell phone footage, or door cam footage would have come out if they didn't send it.

I haven't seen ANYONE talking about this. not the lame stream, or the new media.