Why are people getting trained near a busy airport? This is considering that the entire DC metro area is restricted airspace, and there’s an international airport outside that air space where most the major traffic comes in.
Trainees have no business flying there.
the blackhawk is the same type they use to fly the Prez around apparently. and there is more than one of them. So I guess they need to train to make their way around the area day and night.
However, i question why they are allowed to cross the glide slope at all. Something that should not be done in peacetime. Without an urgent need.
Imagine what would have happened if the helicopter was carrying the president.
A “training flight” doesn’t exactly imply you’re a total newb. If you’re going to be flying in the area (or areas like it), at some point you’re going to need training there. She reportedly had 450+ hours.
How do the non-trainees get proficient flying there?
Azerbaijan crash explained
Another crash near Taiwan
Also United Air
here Panic on United Airlines flight after flames shoot out of wings on take-off | The Independent
Another deadly crash in the US, this time in Scottsdale Arizona.
These seem to be corporate jets, not commercial flights.
Guy
Small planes seems to be less safe anyhow, I’d say many crashes involve small jets/propeller planes.
But why is it that planes seem to crash into each other in the US lately?
cellphones! cellphones in the cockpit I tell ya!
All these youngins’ playin on their newfangled devices and not doin their jobs!
/sarc
On a realistic note it seems like an over-reliance on technology to do the eyeballing and thinking that ought to be done by the pilot(s). Too much automation leads to a gradual decline in the sharpness of vital skills and knowledge of protocols and procedures over time.
Kind of like how a well-trained rookie shooter will be more safe than an experienced range instructor simply because of the hyper-attentiveness to safety the rookie is not allowing room for corner-cutting or complacency.
So I’m sitting here on the deck facing Green Island this morning and saw a military jet zoom by— which is normal. Very loud tho, and very low. It did a button hook turn and headed back to Taitung.
A bit odd, I thought, as they usually zip off in pairs into the ether and disappear.
Turns out, a pilot ejected and dropped his jet into the sea. So either that was him just before he went down, or his wingman looking for him.
Or not. Could be wrong.
Focus Taiwan reports on the incident in Taitung—engine failure as the apparent cause, with the plane crashing into the ocean, and with the pilot parachuting out in time.
Guy
IIRC that’s the 4th military plane crash in the area in the past 5 or 6 years (not including the big drone that landed in a park), and the only one where the pilot survived (I think there’s been four lost in that time, last one being a midair collision, again, iirc).
I’ve actually been waiting to see it happen. The flight path after take off is literally in my front yard.
My fear is one coming down in a populated area. so far all the ones I know about have gone into the sea, except the drone.
should be a few days of inactivity and quiet
Take offs seem to be the most dangerous times. And they launch directly toward the water. I can’t imagine they ever launch toward Taitung.
I really don’t understand why in peace time any aircraft should be allowed to cross the flight path on the landing glide slope
Something is fucjed here
First brave eagle crash I think
Bound to happen
All models suffer crashes at some point
I didn’t recall completely correctly. A quick search revealed a pilot survived in 2022 after ejecting into the ocean in the southeast and another survived in the northern Taiwan Strait in 2024. Both were flying Mirages.
