Aviation Crashes and other FAA News

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evrheel said:
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'This is not right': Outrage as major government agency accused of 'breaking the law'

The National Transportation Safety Board made a pro-Elon Musk announcement that took onlookers by storm. The NTSB said over the weekend that it would only be announcing news about major aircraft accidents on one particular social media platform. "For media covering the airplane crashes in...
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The National Transportation Safety Board made a pro-Elon Musk announcement that took onlookers by storm.

The NTSB said over the weekend that it would only be announcing news about major aircraft accidents on one particular social media platform.

"For media covering the airplane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia—all NTSB updates about news conferences or other investigative information will be posted to this X account," the agency wrote. "We will not be distributing information via email."
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Step by step Trump and his oligarchs are seizing absolute control of the information that will be available to the public.

www.nbcnews.com

Pentagon removes major media outlets, including NBC News, from dedicated workstations as part of a new 'rotation program'

NBC News, The New York Times, NPR and Politico must vacate their office spaces in two weeks for other news organizations — including at least one that did not request to be added.
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heelinhell said:
Step by step Trump and his oligarchs are seizing absolute control of the information that will be available to the public.

www.nbcnews.com

Pentagon removes major media outlets, including NBC News, from dedicated workstations as part of a new 'rotation program'

NBC News, The New York Times, NPR and Politico must vacate their office spaces in two weeks for other news organizations — including at least one that did not request to be added.
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We'll see how this goes. Historically, whenever an administration tries to freeze out some unfriendly press organization, the more friendly organizations tend to go to bat for them. Even Fox News did this during Trump's first term. And other news organizations have done this for Fox and their ilk in the past during Democratic administrations.
 
heelinhell said:
Step by step Trump and his oligarchs are seizing absolute control of the information that will be available to the public.

www.nbcnews.com

Pentagon removes major media outlets, including NBC News, from dedicated workstations as part of a new 'rotation program'

NBC News, The New York Times, NPR and Politico must vacate their office spaces in two weeks for other news organizations — including at least one that did not request to be added.
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This may end up being worse than even i imagined, and I expected chaos.
 
That is pretty dumb but I was kind of wondering where cockpit originated from. It started out in the 14th century as a pit for cockfights. Then in the 17th and 18th centuries, people thought the area where the ship's navigation equipment and the pilot wheel were located looked a little like a cockpit so the name transferred. And then aircraft designers started calling the area where the navigation equipment and the flight controls were located on an aircraft a cockpit.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
That is pretty dumb but I was kind of wondering where cockpit originated from. It started out in the 14th century as a pit for cockfights. Then in the 17th and 18th centuries, people thought the area where the ship's navigation equipment and the pilot wheel were located looked a little like a cockpit so the name transferred. And then aircraft designers started calling the area where the navigation equipment and the flight controls were located on an aircraft a cockpit.
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I have a young extended family member that is working for a startup that is entirely redesigning airplane cockpits No more buttons and switches-more like a giant Tesla computer screen
 
gtyellowjacket said:
That is pretty dumb but I was kind of wondering where cockpit originated from. It started out in the 14th century as a pit for cockfights. Then in the 17th and 18th centuries, people thought the area where the ship's navigation equipment and the pilot wheel were located looked a little like a cockpit so the name transferred. And then aircraft designers started calling the area where the navigation equipment and the flight controls were located on an aircraft a cockpit.
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It's been called a flight deck for a generation. Cockpits are for fighter planes. Airliners have had flight decks for a long time. Pretty much all FAA regs, I think, use flight deck and not cockpit. Again, it's been like that for a generation at least.

Edit to add: The source of that information about flight decks (and it might not be that phrase precisely) was the judge I clerked for. We had one case about FAA pricing and it turns out that he knew boatloads about FAA regs. And he hated jargon, or what he saw as jargon, so he brought up the cockpit thing among others. Here is an example of flightdeck being used in regulations from . . . 2002.

 
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Calheel said:
Depends where the giant fire ball hits

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This was really sad. It hit home with me because my son who grew up in Hawaii recently received his private pilot's license in Phoenix where he is going to flight school. He's been flying smaller Cessnas for several months now.
 
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These third party analyses may be well intentioned, but they're stirring the same crap that social media always does. The prudent course is to wait for the final investigation to come out before making any definitive conclusions.
 
nycfan said:


“… Data from the jet’s flight recorder showed its altitude as 325 feet (99 meters), plus or minus 25 feet (7.6 meters), when the crash happened Wednesday night, National Transportation Safety Board officials told reporters. Data in the control tower, though, showed the Black Hawk helicopter at 200 feet (61 meters) at the time.

The roughly 100-foot (30-meter) discrepancy has yet to be explained.

Investigators hope to reconcile the altitude differences with data from the helicopter’s black box, which is taking more time to retrieve because it became waterlogged after it plunged into the Potomac River. They also said they plan to refine the tower data, which can be less reliable. …”
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This is going to tell us a lot, IMO. When I saw the footage, my first thought was "wow, it really doesn't look like they were very high off the ground when the collision occurred." Certainly didn't seem to be consistent with the BlackHawk being way too high. But I also put very little stock in trying to estimate distance based on a video like that, so my initial impression is worth little, if any, more than nothing.

But clearly either the BlackHawk was higher than they thought, or the plane was lower than they thought. It will be interesting to see what ends up being the case.
 


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Conditions May Have Stymied Black Hawk Crew Before Fatal Crash

The Army pilots were juggling dark skies, low altitude, a busy airspace and a cockpit without certain traffic detectors before the helicopter’s midair crash with a regional passenger jet.
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Conditions May Have Stymied Black Hawk Crew Before Fatal Crash​

The Army pilots were juggling dark skies, low altitude, a busy airspace and a cockpit without certain traffic detectors before the helicopter’s midair crash with a regional passenger jet.
 
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