You don't need to be an expert when its so obvious. If I see a derailed train, I don't need to be a locomotive engineer to know its not supposed to be off the tracks. The helicopter flew into airspace every pilot and non pilot knows you don't fly into.

What's also really dumb is like....you're a helicopter. You can just sit there and hover. No need to be moving anywhere while planes are taking off. You can literally stop and float, go up or down, backwards...any direction other than forwards (including no direction at all).

This whole thing is like if a person driving a car didn't know you had brakes or taking your foot off the accelerator slows you down and drove through a four-way stop without stopping.

I don't understand why we have to have these schlemihls fucking around in hundred million dollar equipment and incinerating a billion gallons of kerosene when surely flight sims are really fucking good in this year of our lord 2025

Maybe this is some long covid consequence or something. I heard an anecdote on here awhile back that people with long covid are just sitting at stop signs in their cars and getting confused at what to do next.

Add in the fact that most people with long covid don’t even realize they have long covid and we start getting more freak accidents like this.

I’m not saying that’s what this is but who knows it could be

To add on to this: Here is the ATC recording from the time of the collision, though the military is on UHF and this is only VHF so it's still a bit tricky to fully decipher what happened

Skip to around 16:30 to get to the involved aircraft

The CRJ is Blue Streak 5342 and the black hawk is PAT 25

https://archive.liveatc.net/kdca/KDCA1-Twr-Jan-30-2025-0130Z.mp3

The heli was instructed to visually pass behind the CRJ, but beyond that it's unclear how they managed to fuck it up so badly

It's been the opposite for me, the older I get the more support I need. I was unmedicated until I was 30 and gave up the ghost.

We really are just speed running german style fascism from the 30's weimar but transplanted to today with G*mers at the helm instead of weird germans obsessed with hinduism.

Seriously. Without even getting into criticizing the US military in general, this is just blatant incompetence and/or lack of training.

You would think once high profile American citizens start becoming the victims of our military, they would get called out for being the absolute shitshow they are playing around with multi-million dollar equipment.

But nope, I doubt we hear a peep from the media about these idiots.

the sight was getting bigger and bigger but he didn't know what that meant until it was too late

Are you implying that the helicopter pilot survived this crash, only everyone on the passenger plane is dead?