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One for obviously operating the helicopter because it was being flown by the Army, but also air traffic control that’s regulating and monitoring that airspace is FAA, which is again a government agency,
Brauchle said
Typically, right after — obviously, the families are dealing with a lot of shock and grief right now — a lot of times it’s really hard for people to wrap their minds around aircraft accidents because they’re just not supposed to happen,
James Brauchle told Fox News Digital Thursday, addingSo, I'm going to assume that that's going to happen,
Brauchle saidEven the most skilled pilots are going to make human errors, because they’re human. We have wanted humans to be very much in control, and that has worked to get us to a great safety record today,
But, ... he maintained ... Cox said
I’m 99 percent sure the Black Hawk [crew] was confused about which airliner they were talking about,
Greenspun saidFull autonomy in the ... We do think there are some advancements that exist to bring to the cockpit alongside human pilots, driver-assist type stuff, to augment their capabilities and to help them to their jobs better. Does an automatic transmission make a bad driver into a good one? No. But it’ll make things a lot easier.”
Cox went on, but, he saidI don’t think DEI is a factor here,
Greenspun said, emphasizing thatThe avionics in the Hornet were designed in the 80s and 90s,
Cox told The IndependentIf you were to try to hit an airplane with a helicopter, it’s pretty hard,
Henderson told The IndependentIt’s a shame, because air traffic controllers really are excellent people, but, after 70-plus years of trials, maybe human excellence just isn’t enough,
Greenspun said, noting that those working in ATC towersEngines are more reliable, systems have multiple redundancies, as a society we’ve driven all of those causes down,
he saidMost aviation accidents are [the result of] an accident chain,
he said
I ask that you take all necessary steps to promptly investigate these incidents to determine if they fit a larger pattern of malfunction with the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter,
Gillibrand shared in a letter to the DoD
The helicopter was defective, it crashed, the pilots were badly injured, one person died; Sikorsky, we are alleging, is responsible for the crash.
Marine veteran and attorney Timothy Loranger, who represented the plaintiff, told Military.com in
It was a fairly experienced crew and it was doing a required annual night evaluation
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on ThursdayAt this point, we do not believe there were any survivors.
District of Columbia fire chief John Donnelly saidWe will work to find all the bodies and reunite them with their loved ones
he saidOn final approach into Reagan National, it collided with a military aircraft on an otherwise normal approach
American AirlinesThe one good thing about aviation is they try to learn from past accidents and try to make corrections to prevent future accidents
He addedI don't want to go into too much detail about the information we have from the FAA. but obviously it is not standard to have aircraft collide,
said Duffy