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Once you get it down and get proficient at it, it’s amazing what you can do in it,
said Mark Miller, an associate professor at the College of Aviation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University on its Honolulu campus, and a former Marine helicopter pilot
You get that instrument scan down right away, sometimes painfully so,
Miller said of the trainingIf the helicopter is 100 feet above the ground and traveling at 120 knots, the pilot has to project forward in time where they’ll be in like 10 seconds,
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 inAt 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 saidRyan is fondly remembered as a guy who would fix things around the ROTC gym as well as a vital member of the Rifle Team. Ryan leaves behind a wife and 1-year-old son,
the Parkview High School JROTC in Georgia wrote on Facebook
We do know on our side who was involved. It was a fairly experienced crew, and that was doing a required annual night evaluation,
Hegseth said in a video statement obtained exclusively by Fox NewsSafety is our expectation. Everyone who flies in American skies expects that we fly safely, that when you depart an airport, you get to your destination. That didn’t happen last night,
Duffy saidIt's a tragedy, a horrible loss of life for those 64 souls on that civilian airliner. And of course, the three soldiers in that Black Hawk. They're in our prayers, their families and their communities as people are notified,
Hegseth addedWe have recovered 27 people from the plane and one from the helicopter,
he addedI'm telling you right now - and they can kill me for saying it - under no circumstances is a military helicopter, especially a f**king Black Hawk, accidentally crashing into a commercial plane
Jacq Cerra, who is in the Army, is one of the people questioning it, saying on TikTokYou’re 100 percent correct, those Black Hawks move damn near omni-directionally and the pilots are top-tier, a lot of questions.
A TikTok commenter named Uche, who claimed to be a Marine veteran, also thought the crash was weird, writing under Cerra's videoAt about 8:48 last night, a UH60, assigned to the U.S. Army Aviation Brigade in the military district of Washington, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, collided tragically with a civilian airliner,
Hegseth said in a statement
It is usually multiple different errors that occur that all sort of line up to allow for something like this to happen,
Green told the hostsWhen you have a helicopter encounter any type of a civilian airliner or civilian aircraft, it's like running into a buzz saw,
Tristani said
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of one of our own,
read a social media post from Parkview's ROTCBoth pilots had flown this specific route before at night. This wasn't something new to either one of them,
Koziol saidThe UH-60 helicopter has both the civilian VHF radio and the military UHF radio,
said Tristani