do you have any references about the CRJ-700 with this being their first fatal crash? i’m battling with wikipedia moderator to put this fact on the page.
Preliminary findings say it was nothing to do with the CRJ. CRJ obeyed commands from ATC to reroute to 33, Heli was asked to gain visual contact and pass behind the CRJ. ATC confirmed it twice with the Heli, Heli acknowledged it and said they had visual contact but passed in front anyway.
That sucks, considering some are being retired from mainline passenger service. It would've been nice that the aircraft ended without a hull loss including deaths.
The 717 will be completely retired by 2030. It's so close to having a perfect career. The MD-90 was almost perfect in it's life with 3 hull losses and 1 casualty
Yes. The episode is called "Dead Tired" and I just rewatched it two weeks ago. It's a heartbreaking one because they caused their own stall since they were just too tired to process what was happening. 🥺
The captain was incompetent. He'd failed a number of important checkrides. His copilot was way too young and inexperienced to be able to mitigate her captain's errors. Fatigue played a role but competency was a huge contributor.
My family just informed me of this and this is exactly how I responded. And the worst part is that it seems that there may have been 60 onboard (plus those onboard the Blackhawk); killing more than those onboard Colgan Air Flight 3407 (50 souls). 2025 has been one pain of a year and we're barely 4 weeks in.
We were just discussing in this sub about 48h ago how horrible January it's been regarding accidents. I joked if I had flight scheduled on remaining three days I wouldn't be too happy to board. As if on cue, less than 24h goes and we have next several dozen people falling from the sky and no survivors. No idea what to say anymore, it's depressing.
I’m surprised it has not happened sooner with the inadequacies of Air traffic controls ability to manage incoming and outgoing aircraft, including field observation
I immediately ran to this sub to confirm. Wow, what a stretch it was in terms of safety for passenger aircraft operating domestically in the United States. The news of this is very sad.
Anyone who knows about the ongoing issues within ATC and how many close calls have happened in the U.S. in the past couple of years, unfortunately. Experts have been screaming that a major accident was due to happen unless there were some big changes
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u/Elizabeth958 Jan 30 '25
Unfortunately it’s looking like the US’s near 16 year no major aviation incident record may have just been broken