The last week has been about 20 degrees warmer than the usual Oklahoma average for this time of year. I haven't worn my heated jacket for the last several days but I don't keep it far from me
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If it's any comfort, with the DC incident, at least, there were at least two people who fucked up royally at the same time (helo pilot, ATC, arguably whoever else was in the helo and not monitoring the fact that they were 180 feet higher than they should have been). I'm glad they released the helo pilot's name, because sorry, a mass murderer doesn't deserve privacy.
As for the other, it remains to be seen, but the people aboard the plane were all Mexican nationals, and I suppose the plane might also be Mexican and possibly held to lower standards for airworthyness? That plane doesn't have black boxes, as I hear, so the investigation might be more difficult.
Oh, and about Class-A air mishaps, apparently FY 2024 had the highest number of them since FY 2014. I think that was just for the Army, not the DoD as a whole. Not sure how the numbers were affected by optimal manning, or Trump, or covid, or DEI, or whatever. Culture of carelessness, perhaps.
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Oh, there are certainly many parties of the DC incident that are fully deserving of blame- and based on what I've read about it, the majority of the blame lies with the helicopter crew. It would not surprise me at all if an investigation was done into the heli pilots' records, and there were many examples of substandard performance found.
The one hypothesis about the second aircraft that I find intriguing, in context, is the possible failure/rupture of the oxygen tanks. A lax attitude about O2 system storage and maintenance is, Mexican or not, something I find highly unlikely though- because there's a wealth of possible deadly results if the system isn't given the proper respect and care. If I were a betting man and it does turn out to be the oxygen tanks, I'd put my money on a catastrophic equipment defect- perhaps one which can't be detected except by testing and inspection that is beyond basic requirements. Hopefully the NTSB can figure out the actual cause without too much trouble.
A couple months after we moved from Lemoore the first time, there was a Class A mishap where a pilot crashed an F/A-18, and killed himself and a non-pilot aviation officer*. The investigation revealed that the pilot was practicing a certain maneuver for airshows, and apparently his angle of attack was all wrong and trying to violate physics, and even though there had been observers recording his earlier attempts, nobody actually watched the videos or offered the guy feedback, so rather than work in a simulator and fix the problem, the guy died out in the field and took another person with him. So I could totally believe that nobody is checking anyone for fuckups with the helo flights along the Potomac (double plus when there was a similar incident the day before (!!!)). In all the times I've been stuck in traffic on the Wilson Bridge and have seen planes fly over (going to just-off north runway), I've never seen helicopters.
The second one, I have a terrible fear that they hit something, like geese or a drone or such. Otherwise
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The plane collision brought to light that 3000 white person applications for air traffic control were thrown out just because the applicants were white. There's supposedly a class action lawsuit.
I'm hoping they can someday prove that my place of employment is throwing away applications from a certain demographic. Just yesterday, the low lives were hurrdurrdurring about how 'young people these days are fat and lazy and don't want to work'. Isn't that funny? No local people want these jobs so we have to import minorities from 50+ miles away because only minorities want to work. I know Trump can't do it all when he's only been president for a few weeks, but I hope this issue gets looked into right away, not just with air traffic controllers.
An aside: Elon Musk floated out the idea of a federal wide mandatory drug test. That might weed out the DEI hires at the plant so maybe next year, ALL of the packages can get delivered by Christmas, not just 50/50.
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If it's any comfort, with the DC incident, at least, there were at least two people who fucked up royally at the same time (helo pilot, ATC, arguably whoever else was in the helo and not monitoring the fact that they were 180 feet higher than they should have been). I'm glad they released the helo pilot's name, because sorry, a mass murderer doesn't deserve privacy.
As for the other, it remains to be seen, but the people aboard the plane were all Mexican nationals, and I suppose the plane might also be Mexican and possibly held to lower standards for airworthyness? That plane doesn't have black boxes, as I hear, so the investigation might be more difficult.
Oh, and about Class-A air mishaps, apparently FY 2024 had the highest number of them since FY 2014. I think that was just for the Army, not the DoD as a whole. Not sure how the numbers were affected by optimal manning, or Trump, or covid, or DEI, or whatever. Culture of carelessness, perhaps.
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Oh, there are certainly many parties of the DC incident that are fully deserving of blame- and based on what I've read about it, the majority of the blame lies with the helicopter crew. It would not surprise me at all if an investigation was done into the heli pilots' records, and there were many examples of substandard performance found.
The one hypothesis about the second aircraft that I find intriguing, in context, is the possible failure/rupture of the oxygen tanks. A lax attitude about O2 system storage and maintenance is, Mexican or not, something I find highly unlikely though- because there's a wealth of possible deadly results if the system isn't given the proper respect and care. If I were a betting man and it does turn out to be the oxygen tanks, I'd put my money on a catastrophic equipment defect- perhaps one which can't be detected except by testing and inspection that is beyond basic requirements. Hopefully the NTSB can figure out the actual cause without too much trouble.
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A couple months after we moved from Lemoore the first time, there was a Class A mishap where a pilot crashed an F/A-18, and killed himself and a non-pilot aviation officer*. The investigation revealed that the pilot was practicing a certain maneuver for airshows, and apparently his angle of attack was all wrong and trying to violate physics, and even though there had been observers recording his earlier attempts, nobody actually watched the videos or offered the guy feedback, so rather than work in a simulator and fix the problem, the guy died out in the field and took another person with him. So I could totally believe that nobody is checking anyone for fuckups with the helo flights along the Potomac (double plus when there was a similar incident the day before (!!!)). In all the times I've been stuck in traffic on the Wilson Bridge and have seen planes fly over (going to just-off north runway), I've never seen helicopters.
The second one, I have a terrible fear that they hit something, like geese or a drone or such. Otherwise ( ... )
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The plane collision brought to light that 3000 white person applications for air traffic control were thrown out just because the applicants were white. There's supposedly a class action lawsuit.
I'm hoping they can someday prove that my place of employment is throwing away applications from a certain demographic. Just yesterday, the low lives were hurrdurrdurring about how 'young people these days are fat and lazy and don't want to work'. Isn't that funny? No local people want these jobs so we have to import minorities from 50+ miles away because only minorities want to work. I know Trump can't do it all when he's only been president for a few weeks, but I hope this issue gets looked into right away, not just with air traffic controllers.
An aside: Elon Musk floated out the idea of a federal wide mandatory drug test. That might weed out the DEI hires at the plant so maybe next year, ALL of the packages can get delivered by Christmas, not just 50/50.
Good to hear the working out is going well!
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