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Blackhawk v commuter plane
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 9:37 pm
by tlynn78
Awful..how the hell? Prayerd
Re: Blackhawk v commuter plane
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 10:27 pm
by BackInTex
PSA Airlines (Operating under the American Eagle brand) Flight 5342 left Wichita, KS at 5:22 PM scheduled to arrive aroung 9:03, Flight Aware shows the flight ended at 8:57 PM right as it was starting to cross the Potomac.
60 passengers, 4 crew.
No word on how many were onboard the Blackhawk.
Re: Blackhawk v commuter plane
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 10:50 pm
by tlynn78
BackInTex wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2025 10:27 pm
PSA Airlines (Operating under the American Eagle brand) Flight 5342 left Wichita, KS at 5:22 PM scheduled to arrive aroung 9:03, Flight Aware shows the flight ended at 8:57 PM right as it was starting to cross the Potomac.
60 passengers, 4 crew.
No word on how many were onboard the Blackhawk.
I've heard three on the Blackhawk
Re: Blackhawk v commuter plane
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:05 am
by Bob Juch
That reminds me of the Air Florida crash into the Potomac River in the 1970s. I lost two colleagues from USPS in that tragic event.
Re: Blackhawk v commuter plane
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:58 am
by tlynn78
Bob Juch wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:05 am
That reminds me of the Air Florida crash into the Potomac River in the 1970s. I lost two colleagues from USPS in that tragic event.
That was 1982
Re: Blackhawk v commuter plane
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:06 am
by tlynn78
Several victims were traveling after attending the skating competition in Wichita - two Russian world champions among them.
Re: Blackhawk v commuter plane
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 1:37 pm
by Bob Juch
tlynn78 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:58 am
Bob Juch wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:05 am
That reminds me of the Air Florida crash into the Potomac River in the 1970s. I lost two colleagues from USPS in that tragic event.
That was 1982
I should have remembered that it was just after I moved to Raleigh to set up a new data center.
Re: Blackhawk v commuter plane
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:06 pm
by tlynn78
Bob Juch wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 1:37 pm
tlynn78 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:58 am
Bob Juch wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:05 am
That reminds me of the Air Florida crash into the Potomac River in the 1970s. I lost two colleagues from USPS in that tragic event.
That was 1982
I should have remembered that it was just after I moved to Raleigh to set up a new data center.
When someone mentions 70's I still think "oh, thirty years ago..."
Re: Blackhawk v commuter plane
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 3:14 pm
by Beebs52
tlynn78 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:06 pm
Bob Juch wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 1:37 pm
tlynn78 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:58 am
That was 1982
I should have remembered that it was just after I moved to Raleigh to set up a new data center.
When someone mentions 70's I still think "oh, thirty years ago..."
Oh. 40.......
Re: Blackhawk v commuter plane
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 4:12 pm
by BackInTex
Reports are the air traffic control supervisor decided that there was light enough traffic that they had one controller doing two jobs, control of fixed wing and helicopters, usually done by separate controllers.
And, the helicoptor was flying without a working transponder.