God help us.

Only they know the correct answer for everything.

Maybe it's his "air accordion" that's supposed to work the trick.

Every one else they see as moronic dolts.

and if they don't comply, they'll be unemployed

the blame game.

Who apparently don't believe in birth control. It's not the kid's problem... they didn't ask to be born to idiot parents.

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It's not standard to have aircraft collide, yet.

He's working on it.

many, many times. Many times. He's an expert on that sort of thing. So great.

That just isn’t true enough.

publicly by people who can focus media attention. In this instance, he sounds like he has a young child's understanding.
SNL would be one-- but he has to become the butt of jokes.

or some such BS.

He is an effin Nazi

… human brain can not handle that kind of stress. You start thinking weird thoughts such as
where is the brake pedal on a helicopter? Or objects in motion stay in motion unless forces act
on that object counter to that object’s motion. Issac Newton’s 1st law already covered this subject.

didn't you know?!

It's only one of Newton's laws of motion.

so that makes him an expert.

Each of his cells vibrates to perfection!

At ITT, so we know Trump is smart.

The press thought Biden was demented! This is way worse. Musk is the real President.

Time to parrot back GOP conspiracy theories.

I am not an aviation expert but can you have a helicopter hover in place quickly? Also can the go straight up? I am pretty sure the answers to those questions are no, but again, flying is not my thing.

They can generally change direction faster than most larger aircraft. But going from forward to stop is not like in a car. The only traction is from air. I don't know the scale of the maps showing the combined routes of both craft but it would seem to me that the chopper pilot should have seen the passenger plane with plenty of time to take some kind of corrective action.

But with no information other than flight path and collision everything right now is conjecture.

There will be an investigation. The FAA, used to take this stuff seriously hopefully still does.

because airline pilots over 40 have to get a medical exam every 6 months (if younger, every year) to get their first-class medical certificate. The requirements for a sign-off are fairly stringent, and most heart conditions are disqualifying. A pilot could have an undiagnosed heart condition that causes sudden incapacitation but it's extremely rare.

We are so screwn.

I'd laugh if this wasn't so serious.

But passed with a gentleman's "C" after Daddy greased the wheels.

as they saw an approaching airplane? Instead they blindly followed ATC like idiots who follow GPS instructions to drive into the ocean?

I was working in California, I got a rental car with a Never Lost GPS system.

Halfway across the Golden Gate bridge it was telling me to make a right turn.

I tell them how to go home, we do a pretty straight shoot. My built in GPS worked just fine.
The sun comes up in the east, goes down in the west. The 2 other points are north and south.

I have been able to bring people right where they want to go,even in a city I was never in.🫠🥴

The area where we live, although reasonably densely populated, (700k in the county) is notoriously bad for GPS.
When our company had visitors come to our big Chicago area manufacturing site, we would send an email with a map, directions and in bold underlined text "Do not rely on GPS".
Some ignored that and got so far off base, I would leave to go to a truck stop, the talk them in over the phone, until they got to where I was. Then they'd follow me back. Some of these folks ended up 8 miles to far south & east!
We contacted Garmin, Google, MapQuest & others but they did nothing.
Even nearer our house, there is an exit that only matters after a turn to the east. The other direction goes nowhere except a dead end.
The county put up a 4' by 3' sign saying "Ignore your GPS! This way leads to nothing."
On that first piece, I once had an ISO auditor get dropped off in the middle of nowhere by an Uber driver who got frustrated that he kept going in circles. On the phone, I told him to listen to my instructions nit the GPS, but he wouldn't.
I guessed reasonably well, and tracked her down about a mile from an industrial park with her briefcase & luggage on the ground next to her!

He is onesickmutherfucker.

no one could get those.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/grab-that-record-how-trumps-high-school-transcript-was-hidden/2019/03/05/8815b7b8-3c61-11e9-aaae-69364b2ed137_story.html

But of course he had an uncle was was intelligent, so...

4 more years...of of, of this?

Deep breaths.

The military families will want to tear him from limb to limb.

An object in motion doesn't tend to remain in motion if it's a helicopter, right? Does he only ever watch cartoons when he's not watching Fox? Does he think a helicopter moves like when Wile E. Coyote runs off a cliff and then stops suddenly and falls straight down?

How do you get that much stupid into one big orange sausage skin?

in San Francisco, "Remember where we parked!".

All he had to do was express sympathy for the victims and their families and say that an investigation was underway to determine the cause of the accident.

But no, Trump has to expound on every subject. The less he knows, the more he talks.

He saw it as an opportunity to bash Biden, Obama and DEI and ended up proving again what a fool he is.

That sums him up quite nicely. Trump is always looking for "opportunities" and ones that will benefit him politically, personally, or professionally. He never does anything because it is the right thing to do.

my tv will remain off for the next four (or however many) years.

Every time he speaks an angel's wings fall off.

Even in the sense of ridicule.

Since I learned about the Vance Thiel Yarvin trifecta, I realized that the freezing of federal funds and attempt to eliminate all federal employees is not at all due to incompetence on their part.

It is their end goal.

We have never been in more danger than we are right now, Trump's attempts to distract with his buffoonery are not in the least amusing to me.

I would no more laugh at any one of them than I would laugh at a Cobra if I were locked in a room with it.

He knows more about airflight collisions than anyone.

JFC - I would laugh if he wasn’t so GD pathetic.

He might have had some personal experience flying helicopters. But Captain Bone Spurs has the unmitigated gall to critique now deceased service members who actually did serve. There simply is no bottom. He is devoid of decency and humanity.

The Huey we were in took an RPG to the tail boom.

We were in gyro on the way down, things happened fast. When we hit, I bounced out of the door and the rotors bent downward, nearly taking my head off. The main roto spun for, I'd say, 30 seconds but shit was happening so fast I can't be sure.

We all survived. But the respect I have for gravity increased exponentially.

If, as been alluded to, the use of Night Vision Devices (which I am sure have improved) would make light pollution from a major city something of a nightmare. Not only is your peripheral vision non-existent, but you become blind. Think of the idiot who shines a flashlight in your face on a dark night, your night vision is shot for twenty minutes.

As for T****, shut up, let the pro's do their job, and feel some remorse and empathy, then shut the fuck up.

People died in a terrible accident, have some respect.

quickly. And soon.

1. The Trump Files: Donald’s Near-Death Experience (That He Invented)
https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/06/donald-trump-files-helicopter-crash/

2. 3 Trump execs, 2 pilots die as helicopter crashes in Parkway median
https://pressofatlanticcity.com/3-trump-execs-2-pilots-die-as-helicopter-crashes-in-parkway-median/article_4071dbca-24e3-11e4-8835-0019bb2963f4.html

3. 3 Trump Casino Executives Killed
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-11-fi-229-story.html

Thank you, EarlG, for setting up this thread so I never…

Welp, off to Costco this late-morning, and Nicolle Wallace will be recorded. She and her guests are sane, but eventually she is going to drop an F-bomb.

It would be difficult to blame her if she did.

Not to mention that she was an illegal immigrant, was smuggling drugs, and had bomb in her parachute.

ever since they were given immunity by the Supreme Court.

To say this. He isn’t wrong. Look up flare maneuver. I’ll just go ahead and link to a vid that explains it. I’ve seen them make some pretty amazing maneuvers over the years.

Trump didn't seem to understand why the helicopter couldn't get out of the way. He was talking as if the pilot saw the jet, had plenty of time to maneuver, and instead thought something along the lines of, "Gee, there's a plane, well, I guess I could stop, or go up or down or left or right...duh, guess I'll just crash into it."

He seemed utterly confused about this, talking as if there was no way the pilot couldn't have seen the jet coming, as if they practically crashed into the jet on purpose. That's why he was saying, "You can stop a helicopter very quickly. They can go up or down." He wasn't trying to make some kind of smart comment about helicopters. He was just trying to sound authoritative about something he only has a vague concept of, as usual. Like, if he was flying the helicopter, he would have gotten out of the way.

Anyway, apologies if it was not clear from the OP -- I posted this as I was watching his press conference, so the context was apparent in the moment.

(I will add that even if the pilot had seen the jet at the last second, the Black Hawk was probably doing at least 150mph. You obviously can't just stop on a dime at that speed. And a Black Hawk isn't a small helicopter like the one in the video.)

Thanks for doing that btw, I just read the transcript. The context is always important. As compared to an air liner that model of helicopter is a gymnast.

for TRAITOR** and company.

They demonstrate personality disorders that no one has ever seen before.

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