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One perspective, seems to me a good one:
Look at this fucking bullshit executive order from Trump:
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Immediate Assessment of Aviation Safety
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION SUBJECT:www.whitehouse.gov
I would invite anyone to defend this. An executive order just to hurl unfounded blame at his predecessor and smear all FAA employees as potentially having intellectual disabilities. When he don’t yet know if any FAS employee did a single thing wrong.
Someone, please, tell me one advantage of having someone so thin skinned and cowardly running our country.
Wendy Schaffer? LinkLearned tonight that one of the passengers— a mother of two from Charlotte— was at my sister-in-law’s 30th birthday party (which was 11 years ago). I was there as well. I may have met her. She dated one of my sister-in-law’s coworkers at the time.
Yep.Wendy Schaffer? Link
"Headline from the link
Washington DC plane crash live: US army helicopter ‘was off course’
Black Hawk aircraft was allegedly at least 100 feet higher than permitted and was half-a-mile off its agreed flight path when the collision happened over the Potomac,
Weird. I am not a pilot, but I don't see how you miss seeing a plane like that."
The helicopter pilot confirmed visual sight of the plane and the air traffic controller instructed the helicopter pilot to follow the route and go behind the plane.
But he did not follow the intended route, the New York Times reported, citing four people briefed on the matter said.
Rather, the helicopter was above 300 feet, not below 200 feet, and was at least half-a-mile off the approved route when it collided with the jet."
I'm not a pilot either, but I can definitely see how I could do it. For me it is just so easy to lock in on one thing and miss everything else. There have been several times in my life where someone was pointing out something to me, I was looking past it at something else, and the other person literally had to walk over and put their hand on the item before I saw/recognized it. "Tunnel vision is defined as one’s tendency to focus on a single goal or point of view. The more important the goal or the more threatening a stimulus is perceived to be, the more likely a person is to focus attention on it. In the first responder arena, tunnel vision is a big deal because much of what responders do is high risk and high consequence." Hence the expression I have oft heard in my life, "(O5C40) you have got to have your head on a swivel!"Weird. I am not a pilot, but I don't see how you miss seeing a plane like that.
I sort of wish I didn’t look at that but at least we know the victims had no time to realize what was happening.![]()
DCA surveillance cameras catch clearest footage yet of deadly midair collision
All 64 people aboard American Airlines flight 5342 and 3 crew members on a Black Hawk Army helicopter were killed in Wednesday night's tragedy over the Potomac River.www.nbcnews.com
Whoa. From this video, it appears that the Blackhawk flew straight into the commuter jet. It's hauling ass forward. How in the bleeping bleep did the helicopter pilot not see that airplane straight ahead of him??I sort of wish I didn’t look at that but at least we know the victims had no time to realize what was happening.
The youtube video posted earlier mentioned that the pilots might have been wearing night vision goggles which can distort vision - lights of different levels can make it hard to interpret visual data.I'm not a pilot either, but I can definitely see how I could do it. For me it is just so easy to lock in on one thing and miss everything else. There have been several times in my life where someone was pointing out something to me, I was looking past it at something else, and the other person literally had to walk over and put their hand on the item before I saw/recognized it. "Tunnel vision is defined as one’s tendency to focus on a single goal or point of view. The more important the goal or the more threatening a stimulus is perceived to be, the more likely a person is to focus attention on it. In the first responder arena, tunnel vision is a big deal because much of what responders do is high risk and high consequence." Hence the expression I have oft heard in my life, "(O5C40) you have got to have your head on a swivel!"
Just got a text from a friend and the family lives in my neighborhood, although I do not know them.Learned tonight that one of the passengers— a mother of two from Charlotte— was at my sister-in-law’s 30th birthday party (which was 11 years ago). I was there as well. I may have met her. She dated one of my sister-in-law’s coworkers at the time.