Subject: Re: Girls can't fly
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From: a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:37:41 -0700
On 4/27/25 15:16, LOL wrote:
> https://www.foxnews.com/us/black-hawk-pilot-failed-heed-flight-
> instructor-moments-before-plane-collision-over-dc-report
>
> > 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.
> >
> > "The Black Hawk was 15 seconds away from crossing paths with the jet.
> > Warrant Officer Eaves then turned his attention to Captain Lobach. He
> told
> > her he believed that air traffic control wanted them to turn left,
> toward
> > the east river bank," the Times wrote.
> >
> > "Turning left would have opened up more space between the helicopter and
> > Flight 5342, which was heading for Runway 33 at an altitude of
> roughly 300
> > feet. She did not turn left," the report said.
> >
> > Lobach, of Durham, North Carolina, served as an aviation officer in the
> > Army beginning in July 2019, and had around 500 hours of flying time in
> > the Black Hawk, the Army said in a release.
> >
> > Lobach was assigned to the 12th Aviation Battalion in Fort Belvoir,
> > Virginia. Her awards included the Army Commendation Medal, Army
> > Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal and Army Service
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