U.S. Politics

[Charles Collins]

These problems are easily solved.  Don't allow a helicopter to fly across the flight path of a major airport!  There are so many planes taking off and landing at that airport that it is easy to become confused.  If you watch the video of the collision, there is another plane ascending just above the one that was hit.  Flying a helicopter there is like trying to run across the racetrack during the Daytona 500. And doing that at night with night vision goggles on!  Good grief.  Eventually something bad is going to happen.

Well, perhaps they are listening to you Richard. I just read that the FAA has (at least temporarily) suspended the two helicopter routes in the area that had them flying underneath the plane traffic. That seems appropriate to me at this point in time. And it should help to restore some of the public’s confidence in the system. Hopefully this will lead to the right permanent solution(s)…

[Richard Smith]

Well, perhaps they are listening to you Richard. I just read that the FAA has (at least temporarily) suspended the two helicopter routes in the area that had them flying underneath the plane traffic. That seems appropriate to me at this point in time. And it should help to restore some of the public’s confidence in the system. Hopefully this will lead to the right permanent solution(s)…

It's probably my influence as a high-ranking KGB officer.  There were some Russians on board the plane.  I bet someone here could play the Kevin Bacon game and link this disaster back to Russia.  Cue sinister music.  LOL.

[Royell Storing]

It's probably my influence as a high-ranking KGB officer.  There were some Russians on board the plane.  I bet someone here could play the Kevin Bacon game and link this disaster back to Russia.  Cue sinister music.  LOL.

   And we Know you also ordered that "Code Red"!

[Tom Mahon]

  You missed Jimmy PAGE of the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin. But this is what you consistently proffer. A Half-Arsed work product.

Better a half-assed researcher than a full-on "useful idiot" (or worse).

[Charles Collins]

It's probably my influence as a high-ranking KGB officer.  There were some Russians on board the plane.  I bet someone here could play the Kevin Bacon game and link this disaster back to Russia.  Cue sinister music.  LOL.

It’s truly sad that some people actually do believe that this was an intentional suicidal act by the helicopter pilot. When we really start thinking about it, the helicopter was in a blind spot of the plane turning left. And the plane was probably in a blind spot of the helicopter pilot if he was sitting on the right side of the cockpit like most helicopter pilots do. I was wondering if ATC specified (to the helicopter) which runway that the plane was landing on. It seems that they did. So it does look like the helicopter pilot is going to be at fault. But I think that there will be some changes to ATC procedures etc as well.

[Royell Storing]

It’s truly sad that some people actually do believe that this was an intentional suicidal act by the helicopter pilot. When we really start thinking about it, the helicopter was in a blind spot of the plane turning left. And the plane was probably in a blind spot of the helicopter pilot if he was sitting on the right side of the cockpit like most helicopter pilots do. I was wondering if ATC specified (to the helicopter) which runway that the plane was landing on. It seems that they did. So it does look like the helicopter pilot is going to be at fault. But I think that there will be some changes to ATC procedures etc as well.

   There's a helicopter corridor/path they are supposed to follow as they fly over the Potomac. If you look at the path that copter took before even getting to the Reagan Airport, that copter was frequently Outside of this corridor. Coupled with the copter flying far too high, we need to know what specifically was going on inside that Black Hawk Copter.