DC Helicopter/Airliner Crash: Shocking Pilot Error Details Covered Up By Military! (Jimmy Dore)

SHOCKING Details Emerge About DC Helicopter Crash!

The pilot of the military Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger airplane over Washington, D.C., in January ignored instructions to change course seconds before the crash, according to a new report.

The report, published by the New York Times on Sunday, detailed the Black Hawk's exchanges with air traffic controllers in the lead-up to the disaster, which left 67 people dead.

According to the report, the Black Hawk pilot, Capt. Rebecca Lobach, was conducting her annual flight evaluation and her co-pilot, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, was serving as her flight instructor.

When air traffic controllers informed the Black Hawk that there was an airliner nearby, Lobach and Eaves acknowledged the message and requested to fly by "visual separation," a common practice that allows aircraft to avoid collisions based on their own observations rather than following instructions from air traffic control.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss how the Times appeared to bury the lede on the most crtitical aspect of what led to the crash — Lobach’s ignoring air traffic controllers’ instructions on avoiding the passenger plane, as well as a directive from her co-pilot.



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, May 1, 2025.]