- They attempted to troll people who do not have to be paid to troll.
- They tried to shame people who already hate themselves.
- They wanted to beat people who will commit years of effort into meaningless firsts.
That's basically what I'm suspecting.
Uncontained engine failure, either a fan blade or a disc. Tears the cowling off, cowling hits the t-tail cuz the climbout means they're at a high AOA, and suddenly they're nose heavy in a power dive.
Literally nothing they could do no matter how much altitude they had.
Fox news is saying there's two corridors called route 1 and route 4, and that the FAA is putting new rules on them.
https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1585986
https://aeronav.faa.gov/visual/09-05-2024/PDFs/Balt-Wash_Heli.pdf
Apparently as of this morning, Route 1 and 4 between the bridges (presumably chain bridge and wilson bridge) are now police and medivac only.
I found a post where a pilot claimed there was a 200' VFR corridor allowing government helos to go UNDER DCA's approach glideslope.
I can't seem to find said post now. But, breitbart is now also mentioning the same point, albeit in less detail. So I have no reason to doubt the existence of such a clearance.
"For safety reasons, the altitude on those helicopter flights is capped at 200 feet."
As for PAT 25's altitude, it's already known to have been 300-400 feet just based on 5342's ADSB.
Latest news is that PAT25 was over their cleared ceiling.
They were at 400', their clearance was not above 200'.
Now, there's a good question to be asked in there about why DCA's controllers and the FAA were willing to live with 200' of vertical separation less than a mile from the threshold of a runway...
Oooo, new news.
A leak from the FAA's preliminary investigation claims that the DCA tower was understaffed at the time of the accident. One controller was handling approach and departure, as well as local helicopter traffic, and that for the time of day and volume of traffic in the area it would have been normal (at DCA) for helicopter movements to have a separate controller. Also, Congress's staffing target for DCA's controllers is 30, they're considered fully staffed at 28, but they currently have 24 controllers.
https://x.com/BrianBartlett/status/1884809124115833049
"PAT 25 DO YOU HAVE CRJ IN SIGHT"
"PAT 25 PASS BEHIND THE CRJ"
how does a plane even hit a helicopter
Helicopter gets in the way.
American 5342 was on final, fully configured for landing and cleared for runway 33. Controller instructed PAT-25 (who had confirmed he had visual on the plane) to pass behind. That instruction was not followed.
Guaranteed the final report will be pilot deviation, wholly the army pilot's fault. The only question is how much spite the NTSB packs into their report over poor airspace management around Reagan.
5342 was below FL010 so TCAS would have been inhibited.
Yes, I know that article is a year old.
But apparently the CEO is now harrassing people to take down references to it.
Didn’t know they had other ones.
If you didn't know then you don't RPG so the details won't really be significant to you.
Let's just say that Paizo's entire history can be summed up as long string of repeatedly saying "fuck you, we're doing it anyway"; and about half the time it works out for them.
They're probably bullshit claims
I've read and seen enough of Gaiman's works (I think I first heard of him with Neverwhere) to say confidently that there was smoke. But I'd always figured he probably had an abusive childhood and was just really private about it.
stalking
SE pretending to have a policy that disallows stalking while simultaneously refusing to let people symmetrically unfriend is funny.
But what's funnier still is SE making it possible for an FFXIV mod to get a character's account unique ID. Which is a thing that they actually did.
As long as the bearings remain properly sealed, an electric motor will usually run happily for years and years. And if it fails, it's often a simple (though expensive) component to remove and replace.
The problem is entirely with the batteries. The chemistry necessary to contain that much power makes them unstable as shit.
What mainstreamed the NBA was FIBA ruling that NBA players could play in the Olympics. Come the 1992 Barcelona games, the USA utterly demolished everyone; nobody held America under 100 points. I mean look at this lineup:
- Laettner
- Robinson
- Ewing
- Bird
- Pippen
- Jordan
- Drexler
- Malone
- Stockton
- Mullin
- Barkley
- Johnson
After the medal game the Croatians were stripping down and asking the Americans to autograph their shoes and jerseys.
The NBA realized that too many black guys were dominating the sport and they had to do something in order to keep drawing in the masses.
Do they though?
I don't think people care about the racial composition of the team, they just care "home team wins". The 1990's Chicago Bulls had like one white guy a season, and in the 90's everyone loved the Bulls (cuz they were winners).
People like teams that win (as long they aren't the team to hate cuz they always win). A few strange people in the midwest like teams that lose.