Passenger Plane & Blackhawk Helicopter Collide In D.C., Trump Blames DEI
Written by djfrosty on January 30, 2025
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Tragedy struck Washington, D.C. after an aerial collision between a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter and a passenger plane occurred at 8:47 p.m. ET last night (Jan. 29).
According to Newsweek, the horrific accident happened when both the passenger plane, which was flying in from Wichita, Kansas, and the U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter attempted to land at Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it is suspected that all 64 passengers in the commercial plane and the three soldiers in the helicopter have not survived the crash. A search for survivors are underway.
The collision comes just a week after “President” Donald Trump reportedly fired the head of the TSA and the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, froze hiring of all Air Traffic Controllers, and also laid off 100 top FAA security officers. Now we’re not saying he’s responsible for this tragedy, but if anyone is wondering how such an incident could come to pass, that wouldn’t be a bad place to look.
Still, others feel it was on the helicopter pilot to have avoided the incident as a former pilot explained that the passenger plane had the right of way and the Blackhawk should’ve flown away to make room for the civilian aircraft.
Newsweek reports:
Former helicopter pilot Paul Beaver spoke with Sky News about the accident, saying that because the airline pilot was coming in to land, they would have had right of way. The helicopter pilot should have taken “avoiding action” to move out of the airplane’s flight path.
Air traffic control recordings from right before the crash show the air traffic controller speaking with the helicopter (PAT 2-5) operators.
The air traffic controller said: “PAT 2-5 do you have the CRJ in sight?”
Then: “PAT 2-5 pass behind the CRJ.”
The helicopter pilot responded: “PAT 2-5 has aircraft in sight, request visual separation,” just moments before the crash.
Donald Trump for his part took to social media to weigh in on the incident and after describing just how good of a night it was to fly a plane, he asked, “Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!”
We still can’t believe y’all truly voted for this kind of malarkey instead of an overqualified Black woman. respectfully.
No word on whether any survivors have been found as of yet, but authorities promise to recover every single body that is currently missing from the accident. And Trump has already blamed Barack Obama, Joe Biden and even DEI.