Maybe Trump was right about DEI being the cause. Right again Mr President!
Why didn’t ATC correct the error?
There was only one Controller when there should have been two. A Controller can only talk on one frequency at a time and he was working two frequencies, watching outside traffic and looking at his radar screen too. The other Controller was released to go home early. That should never happen when that airspace in DCA is so busy with Commercial and Military traffic. Controllers in major metro Control Towers are stacked 2 and 3 deep in quadrants overseeing the traffic outbound and inbound. Ground Controller coordinates the taxi of aircraft in and out of gates and taxiways. In most towers there is the Controller, then a Supervisor behind a group of Controllers, then another Supervisor behind the entire quadrant. When I was still working I was able to spend a day in the Pittsburgh International Airport Control Tower with special permission as part of my job. They are in the Cleveland Air Route Control Center. I wouldn’t want their jobs. It’s very intense. They work 2-hour segments with a short break, then back to work for another 2 hours until the end of their shift maybe 9 hours to allow four 15-minute breaks taking one every 2 hours. I cannot even imagine working that position especially if you have flights holding due to a runway incursion, a missed approach, an emergency landing with a gear problem or an outbound flight pulls onto the runway too quickly, or an inbound flight doesn’t clear the runway quick enough causing another one landing to do a missed approach or even a sick passenger who needs immediate attention once the flight gets to the gate.
I really hope and pray it wasn’t on purpose. From the video I watched it looks intentional.
I notice lots of excuses are being given. 67 people died. As Americans we deserve the truth.
My heart breaks for the families of these crew members lost in this horrific tragedy. May God be with the families to get them through this. It will take a long time and the pain is so heavy right now. If the altimeter was reading 325, the RJ could have been at 300 or 350 depending on what barometric pressure was set at by the National Weather Service hourly station report. The black box would be able to pinpoint that. I don’t know about the Blackhawk and how they coordinate their settings or their instrumentation. They were allegedly 100 feet higher than they were supposed to be.. I was not a Chopper Pilot. Do they point to the instrument and repeat the setting aloud so the other crew member flying hears it and confirms it. Were any one of them distracted. Was anyone on medication that could have impaired them. Was anyone distracted to something outside the cockpit. Too many unanswered questions that we will never be able to determine. God please help this team of professionals figure this out so that family members can have closure.
Maybe Trump was right about DEI being the cause. Right again Mr President!
Why didn’t ATC correct the error?
There was only one Controller when there should have been two. A Controller can only talk on one frequency at a time and he was working two frequencies, watching outside traffic and looking at his radar screen too. The other Controller was released to go home early. That should never happen when that airspace in DCA is so busy with Commercial and Military traffic. Controllers in major metro Control Towers are stacked 2 and 3 deep in quadrants overseeing the traffic outbound and inbound. Ground Controller coordinates the taxi of aircraft in and out of gates and taxiways. In most towers there is the Controller, then a Supervisor behind a group of Controllers, then another Supervisor behind the entire quadrant. When I was still working I was able to spend a day in the Pittsburgh International Airport Control Tower with special permission as part of my job. They are in the Cleveland Air Route Control Center. I wouldn’t want their jobs. It’s very intense. They work 2-hour segments with a short break, then back to work for another 2 hours until the end of their shift maybe 9 hours to allow four 15-minute breaks taking one every 2 hours. I cannot even imagine working that position especially if you have flights holding due to a runway incursion, a missed approach, an emergency landing with a gear problem or an outbound flight pulls onto the runway too quickly, or an inbound flight doesn’t clear the runway quick enough causing another one landing to do a missed approach or even a sick passenger who needs immediate attention once the flight gets to the gate.
I really hope and pray it wasn’t on purpose. From the video I watched it looks intentional.
I notice lots of excuses are being given. 67 people died. As Americans we deserve the truth.
My heart breaks for the families of these crew members lost in this horrific tragedy. May God be with the families to get them through this. It will take a long time and the pain is so heavy right now. If the altimeter was reading 325, the RJ could have been at 300 or 350 depending on what barometric pressure was set at by the National Weather Service hourly station report. The black box would be able to pinpoint that. I don’t know about the Blackhawk and how they coordinate their settings or their instrumentation. They were allegedly 100 feet higher than they were supposed to be.. I was not a Chopper Pilot. Do they point to the instrument and repeat the setting aloud so the other crew member flying hears it and confirms it. Were any one of them distracted. Was anyone on medication that could have impaired them. Was anyone distracted to something outside the cockpit. Too many unanswered questions that we will never be able to determine. God please help this team of professionals figure this out so that family members can have closure.