Of course a mistake was made or there wouldn't have been a collision, and now they're looking for a "DEI hire" to blame it on.

From what I read, it was on the helicopter pilot to be aware of the airplane and avoid it.

Perhaps the chopper pilot did make a mistake. This was such a terrible accident, I hope for everyone's sake that it came down to a mistake, but that does not take away the suffering caused by the loss of these innocent passengers.

It did occur to me - and this is PURE speculation, BUT - was there any chance the helo pilot was suicidal? It's not like suicidal pilots have never taken innocents with them. (I REPEAT : this is SPECULATION. That is all. But it would lead to some other questions, obviously.)

"Suicide with a side of 60" requires a bit of evidence.

(And somewhere in the back of my brain a neuron stirred and said, "Let his surname not begin with Al-.&quot

Something like that happened before.

There were two airliners on final approach, one right behind the other.
The CRJ's lights blending into background city lights may also
have been a factor. Other reports say the Army pilots were training
with night vision googles. A mistake was made, an apparently
easy one to make, as there was a near miss there a day earlier.

He has his own concerns, and none of those relate to the 8,000,000 people who report to him.

Quite a large jump in responsibility for a drunk who never managed a group larger than a platoon at any point in his life.

As of November 2022, the department has over 1.4 million active-duty uniformed personnel in the five armed services. It also supervises over 778,000 National Guard and reservist personnel, and over 747,000 civilians, bringing the total to over 2.91 million employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense#:~:text=As%20of%20November%202022%2C%20the,to%20over%202.91%20million%20employees.

I'm not sure where I picked up that number, but it's off by quite a bit. Thanks for the update.

Maybe have one on the entrance to his office.

about his sobriety. Just bringing it up constantly reminds people of his drinking problems. That’s what they do when they want to drag someone. It’s time for the same treatment.

Nighttime training flights are carried out in close proximity of the takeoff and landing field of a super busy commercial airport.
What sort of dimwit makes these kind decisions?

Honest to God with this shit.

Is that flyers have to train in the environment they will be operating. Just sharing what I heard. On CBS News.

What insanity.

Why do that by the busiest airport. It’s so ridiculous.

Rolling the fucking dice. Weaving in and out of commercial American aircraft.
It's a big stand tall coverup right now but it won't last. There are asshole cowboys that are going to burn for this shit.

It may all boil down to night goggles.

Another pilot also was, no info on the third yet, some backchatter it's a woman.

But if it is, I don't see where the controller was at fault.

Where's the happy hour?

Of planes landing on runway. Pretty bad.

WAS YOUR NOMINATION

He’s brilliant-NOT🙄

This is my primary takeaway from the tragedy.

Fuck you and your boss!

I shake my head in disbelief.