First thing I saw when I opened my eyes last Thursday, he was the text of my husband in our family group conversation “, don’t try to watch the news in the DC. You’ll find out more in 7 minutes of this guy than looking at News all day. “
Included a link on a Youtube video He made Juan Brown, the current airline pilot that focuses on the safety of aviation. The video explained in detail – every plane took, shared radio transmissions and, the most interesting me, the TCA was explained, and why her warnings are diminished at lower heights, like landing aircraft.
This conversation was not completely new, as I was a pilot woman in the last 23 years. Our daughter is an instrument rated a pilot that took a private pilot license within a few weeks of getting a driver’s license in 17. My husband spent more than three decades in aviation. He withdrew as the commander of the Navy Reserve, which flew f / A-18s for 13 years of active duties, and transport aircraft as a reservist. He was a commercial airline pilot for 21 years.
The part that surprised me and turned to my stomach, was when the internet speculation was opposite the cause of the collision among several significant public figures on social media. Saving assumptions in the middle of such a tragic event is insensitive and disrespect for those who have lost their lives in a collision and the families of those who have just been identified.
Early and in the basis of information included thousands of social media posts the wrong appointment of the Transgender Pilot of Black Hawk, Jo Ellis, as a pilot in Crash DC. She stood the “political agenda” proof of life “to record a record straight.
During the initial investigation, in hours after the collision, the military came out with a statement that the name of the pilot would not be released on the family request.
On Saturday, the military was thrown out the following statement “on request and in coordination with the family, The army releases the name of the third soldier who died while performing a training mission near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport 29. January “
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As a pilot wife, when I saw the comments of the verdict, about the captain. Experience Rebecca M. Lobach, I felt annoyed. It seemed inappropriate for so many people without an aviation experience to assume and claim to know all the answers.
The fact is that it was too early to speculate the cause of the collision. There are answers and factual information when the investigation is completed. It hurts to the families of those who lost loved ones to get drunk on critique while offering little or no empathy in the swing of sudden loss.
My husband flew and went out from Reagan National Airport (DCA) during his 21 years and counted as a commercial airline pilot. In the upper occasions, he told me that it was one of the challenging airports for entering and exit because of his busy air traffic, along with cocoopter traffic back and back across the Potomac River.
As the internet rhetoric continued, and the first respondents were in the middle of their recovery missions to take over victims from the ice water, I called my husband. Before passengers identified, I felt sick in opinion who could be in two aircraft. After so many years, he knows, he knows a lot of people and we have friends flying for American airlines. The fact that the military helicopter is involved, the army of the Black Hawk, made it even worse.
As always, he was calming, rational, the vote of the reason. But at one point, referring to the Black Falcon Crew, “they didn’t expect to make a mistake this morning. The middle air collisions happen in training, and at night they fly in a convenient nightmare with night-sighted glasses are not easy. Civil pilots They don’t do that. There is a low margin for the error. Maybe the question is why they do this training so close to the airport. “
We talked about how it is impossible to know exactly what happened so early, before the National Transportation Security (NTSB) has entered there and completed their investigation. This could be any number of things – from the experience of air traffic controllers to a helicopter pilot that may be confused about visibility in the most long night. While the investigation is not done, it is pure speculation.
That is why we should not guess the cause. Unfortunately, some people can’t help themselves.
In the second filming from different media sources, President Trump blamed Obama, Biden and Dei for DC air accident and continued too early to Okin on the cause, while the wreck was still underwater.
Americans and families have already been flooded, confused, scared and angry, so that there are influenced to float the theories of conspiracy or award the remains of victims, daughters, sisters, brothers, friends, friends, brothers, friends, more They always come back, it’s disgusting.
I am well aware that we live in the age of attention, and sensational content is lucrative. While I understand that some people make life rage-bait and otherwise encourages fear and chaos, this is not the time for that.
For many, tragedies as it asks in an immediate perspective. It’s time not to be just gently with others, but with you. Although there may be evaporating empathy in the past decade, which partly thank technology, the way people eventually consist of supporting each other will never lose themselves.
This refers to many human works, large and small, in the midfather of recent fires in Los Angeles in California.
My husband and I talked several more times during the day Thursday, still in shock with everyone else. I told him to be careful as he drives home, as I always work, as we live a few hours from the airport on which it is located on the surface of DC.
Around midnight, when he arrived home, I was relieved to hear when I heard a goalkeeper open and I feel a lovely tail of our dog under the lid.
But I still couldn’t stop thinking about families whose precious loved ones won’t return home. There are 67 families in which collisions influenced the attempted processing of your own lovely sadness, while ensuring that their loved ones are not forgotten.
My heart breaks for families of so young people whose lives are short after traveling that involved following their dreams. Sliding community is overwhelmed with sadness.
I imagine that the victim’s assistance officers must inform the members of the Black Hawk Hawk Hawk Series and what a hard work that must be.
It is human nature that wants to guess, wish to seek answers in a time where it feels so unknown. It’s something to collect. However, in the middle of the tragedy, it is best to leave estimates to experts and keep their conspiracy theories from the public eye and outside the social media. The most successful gift we can give to victims and their families who lost so much, is a simple gesture of empathy and respect.
Jennifer Cannon Is the new jersey free writer with clips in Today, Business Insiderand Eat this, not that!.
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2025-02-03 13:24:00
