Today articles at the blog have covered problems arising from the US aircraft disaster, which saw a Black Hawk helicopter crash with a passenger aircraft. An emerging line of thought is that this arose from human error, perhaps due to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) appointments, something said by President Trump, and there is a lot of evidence that the FDA had been making DEI appointments to reduce the numbers of dreaded White males getting jobs. That being so, Michael Snyder has given a list of 10 very odd things about the disaster which may go beyond mere human error, and could point to something more sinister, which is not yet clearly defined:
#1 Why was staffing "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic" at the air traffic control tower that was giving directions?
#2 Why was one person doing the jobs of two people at the time of the crash?
#3 Why was the pilot of the plane asked to change runways just before disaster struck?
#4 Who ordered the runway switch?
#5 How is it possible that whoever was operating the Black Hawk could not see a huge commercial plane?
#6 Why didn't the helicopter take evasive action to avoid the plane?
#7 Was the plane was equipped with modern collision-avoidance technology? If so, why didn't it prevent the crash from happening?
#8 Why are military helicopter training operations being conducted at such a busy airport?
#9 How is it possible that the helicopter "was going straight at the airplane for an extended period of time" and nobody did anything about it?
#10 Why weren't precautions taken after a nearly identical disaster almost happened the day before?…
A passenger flight had to abort landing at Reagan National Airport in Washington DC the day before American Airlines Flight 5342 collided in midair with a helicopter.
Republic Airways Flight 4514 was forced to back out of touching down and had to make a second approach after a helicopter appeared near its flight path.
That's according to an audio recording from air traffic control captured on Tuesday and heard by The Washington Post.
In my opinion, the military should be banned from conducting training operations at major airports.
There is just way too much traffic constantly coming in and out, and as we have seen, mistakes can happen.
Unfortunately, this was not the only air tragedy that occurred within the past few days.
In Santa Barbara, California a small private plane "crashed and burst into flames" near Highway 101…
And in Alaska, an F-35 fighter jet experienced a "malfunction" and tumbled violently out of the sky…
What is up with the F-35?
It is supposed to be one of the most advanced fighter jets in the entire world, but it has experienced one problem after another.
If even one of our most sophisticated fighter jets can lose power and tumble out of the sky, what does that say about us?
We live at a time when evidence of an "epidemic of incompetence" is everywhere we look."
https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/10-burning-questions-that-everyone