From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics
Subject: Re: Breaking GNUS -- Cyclopean Morons Flying Blind
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:36:40 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-01-30 14:52, Dhu on Gate wrote:
>
> All three in the military chopper that just went down
> were flying at night in a populated area wearing these:
>
> https://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00riBUfpQRRVqc/Optics-Helmet-Mounted-Military-Grade-Night-Vision-Goggles-Gen-2-NH91X-.jpg
>
> Seventy-odd people would still be alive if they'd been wearing
> equipment more suitable to their task:
>
> https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/eokAAOSwZ~lZulB3/s-l1600.jpg
You lack anything resembling a clue.
Aircraft flying at night have LIGHTS.
The best hypothesis at the moment is that:
1. One ATC was doing the job that two should have been doing.
2. When the helicopter pilot radioed that he had the aircraft in sight,
he was actually looking at a different aircraft.