Black Hawk helicopter collision with passenger jet was part of a routine, annual re-training of night flights on a standard corridor for a continuity of government mission

 Crashed US Army Black Hawk unit was responsible for doomsday readiness

... The three soldiers killed in the collision were part of the 12th Aviation Battalion at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, whose responsibilities in a national crisis include evacuating Pentagon officials. Another 64 people were killed in the passenger plane. ...

Trash headline from Drudge says airline CEO blames US Army for last night's collision at DCA

 I've watched the videos. He doesn't blame anybody. The helicopter collided with the passenger jet on its descent to land at Reagan National. We don't know why.

Meanwhile Trump is already shooting his mouth off about DEI under his predecessors being to blame when there are still bodies in the wreckage in the water.

Trump sucks. Drudge sucks.

 

USA fascist police state to expand facial recognition to over 400 US airports

 TSA has deployed identity verification tools at more than 80 airports thus far, with the ultimate goal of expanding the technologies to over 400 airports in the coming years. These new units, known at CAT-2 systems, take real-time pictures of travelers — the “face capture” aspect of the tools — and then compare the images against their scanned photo identifications — in this case, in a process known as “one-to-one” facial recognition. ...

“On average, the TSA CAT-2 identity verification process took 23 seconds per person,” the analysis said. “It took well under 30 seconds for all demographic groups, and all demographic groups were within a few seconds of the average.”

More.

Never fly.

Swim.

 

 

 

Mark Cuban has climate opinions

 

DEI: Duck Everybody, Immediately

 50 People Injured After BOEING 787 Hit With Mid-Flight 'Technical Event'...

Left Wing Turns Airports Into Homeless & Illegal Alien Dumping Grounds

Right Wing Turns Planes & Airports Into DEI Battlegrounds

David Ingram, NBC News

 

Meanwhile:

 

Biden Offers Airports in Atlantic City, on Canadian Border to House NYC Migrants

 

South Jersey leaders oppose proposal to shelter migrants at Atlantic City International Airport

 

Chicago's O'Hare Airport used as a migrant shelter as crisis overwhelms city: 'Like a scene from Mad Max'

 

Migrant families set up camp in Boston airport as Bay State overwhelmed by arrivals: ‘We need DC to act’

 

Hundreds of migrants living in San Diego airport as California battles 'unimaginable' homeless crisis

Like they weren't members already

 Passenger arrested for asking flight attendants to join 'mile high club'...

First it was a window which blew out, then it became a section, now it's a panel, but it will never be a door, which is what it really was

 Boeing shares tumble after panel blows out, FAA grounds 737 Maxes

 

 

When you asked for a window on your model but got the door anyway

Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 for checks after window blows out in midair

Reportedly a boy lost his shirt out the "window" and a bunch of cell phones got sucked out at 16,000 feet, and:

It later emerged that Boeing staff, in internal messages, were cavalier about FAA regulations and critical of the Max's design. One said it the aircraft was 'designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys.'

 Look at this update to "section" lol:

Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 fleet after section blows out midair

 

Flying is safe, until it isn't

 Japan Airlines flight JL516 burst into flames after colliding with another aircraft at landing in Tokyo. Somehow they all got out alive.

Story. 

 

Why I won't fly, 2023 edition

 Boeing urges inspections of 737 Max planes for ‘possible loose bolt’

And they say I'm the one with a screw loose.

Not flying at all is my way of fat-shaming people

West Virginia still has no cases: Boomers say it's the moonshine, zoomers say it's the meth, I say it's because they don't fly and no one flies there, at least on purpose

Banning drinking on airplanes would improve everyone's experience because no one would fly anymore

I wonder how many illegals get the full-frisk TSA treatment while flying free on United

It's the 22nd anniversary of the TWA Flight 800 explosion off Long Island

Jack Cashill's got a new book about the tragedy which killed all 230 aboard.

Read about it here.

Haven't been in the sky since.

You ask me why I refuse to fly?

Here's why:

Why I haven't flown since TWA Flight 800

Memorial to Pam, Shannon and Katie Lychner, 3 of 230 who perished

I worked for a cargo airline at the time, and we went into freak-out mode after Flight 800 with cargo inspection procedures to prevent against the introduction of explosives. We were promised that technology was just around the corner to insure that everything going on the plane was safe, and that we wouldn't have to expend all the extra effort for long, opening up everything to check it ourselves. But it never happened, at least not adequately, and to this day it hasn't. For me, it meant operational burnout, and I quit.

You fly at your own risk. 

Crappy News Network reports, here, that the problems still remain:

As the TSA continues to study its current cargo screening protocols, it is unclear if or when it might implement any changes.

But an airport security official told CNN that new safety protocols and additional resources may not close all the gaps that exist in airline cargo security.

"Cargo is a vast area with lots of access points -- you can never get it completely right," said Mark Hatfield, chief security officer at Miami International Airport.

"It's something that keeps us up at night," he added.

Sure, They Screen The Luggage BEFORE It Gets On The Plane

I've been told that whopper since TWA Flight 800 went down in 1996 off Long Island.

If they did, then why screen at customs ON ARRIVAL?

A guy from Ghana passes through customs at Dulles, has his suitcase opened, and they find the following:

The suitcase contained two elephant tails, bloody sheets, five chicken feathers, chicken blood, a dried hedgehog, two dried chameleons, grass, seed pods, tree bark chips and a jug filled with soil, herbs and blood, authorities said.

The story is here.

Have a nice flight.