BREAKING: PLANE COLLIDES WITH HELICOPTER AT REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT. Confirmed fatalities and an extensive search/rescue operation is underway

Would Marine 1 ever be in a position to crash into a civilian plane?
Technically yes, but not really because the airspace is usually shut down for them. This other chopper didn't have that privelege thus a higher level of skill is required.
 
Looks like he's just reading this for the first time


Considering the fact that he takes "executive time" (watches TV) up till 11:00 am which his staff has previously stated.... takes 25 minutes to get dressed and come downstairs to the press room where he saw it on the podium for his 11;30 presser...... it fits the timeline..


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Night vision goggles in helicopter could have played a role, former Army pilot says​


Reed M. Kimbrough, a former Army helicopter pilot, said it would be premature to make any conclusions about the cause of the midair collision in Washington, D.C., before an investigation is complete.
But he was not totally surprised that the tragedy occurred between an American Airlines plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter, he said, because night vision goggles can impact a pilot’s depth perception.
Kimbrough, who flew from 1978 to 1986, said, “There’s a lag in vision as the night vision goggles recalibrate from looking inside at the instruments to back outside,” he said, potentially making objects initially seem farther away than they are.
He added that the helicopter “seemed to be flying too high. The mandated height of flying for a helicopter around that airport, with the ambient lighting near it, is 200 feet.” Reports said the helicopter was between 300 and 350 feet at collision.
 

Night vision goggles in helicopter could have played a role, former Army pilot says​


Reed M. Kimbrough, a former Army helicopter pilot, said it would be premature to make any conclusions about the cause of the midair collision in Washington, D.C., before an investigation is complete.
But he was not totally surprised that the tragedy occurred between an American Airlines plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter, he said, because night vision goggles can impact a pilot’s depth perception.
Kimbrough, who flew from 1978 to 1986, said, “There’s a lag in vision as the night vision goggles recalibrate from looking inside at the instruments to back outside,” he said, potentially making objects initially seem farther away than they are.
He added that the helicopter “seemed to be flying too high. The mandated height of flying for a helicopter around that airport, with the ambient lighting near it, is 200 feet.” Reports said the helicopter was between 300 and 350 feet at collision.
I don’t wanna hear that excuse from looking at the video that helicopter made a V line towards the airplane if you’ve been in a Blackhawk helicopter or seeing one your vision is very clear and it wasn’t raining or cloudy that night. There is something else going on here in like I said earlier Trump is doing a horrible job on keeping this cover up going. People we screwed.
 
I don’t wanna hear that excuse from looking at the video that helicopter made a V line towards the airplane if you’ve been in a Blackhawk helicopter or seeing one your vision is very clear and it wasn’t raining or cloudy that night. There is something else going on here in like I said earlier Trump is doing a horrible job on keeping this cover up going. People we screwed.
I don't think it was a cover up..that pilot was told to follow the plane in front of him..problem was there was two planes in front of him...he never saw the one he hit
 
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