Washington DC plane tragedy: Ex-USA soccer star bashed for triggering ‘suspicious’ conspiracy theory

For some reason, you had a helicopter that was at the same height and going at an angle that was unbelievably bad when the air traffic controller said, 'Do you see − he was talking about − do you see him?'

Trump said from the White House briefing room

But I believe that the air traffic controller did the best they could with the then circumstances or the means,

said Wang

This was a disaster waiting to happen,

said Ross Aimer, a retired United Airlines captain and chief executive officer of Aero Consulting Experts

The people in the helicopter should have seen where they were going,

Trump said

How does an incredibly maneuverable military helicopter fly into a regional aircraft by accident with all of the sensors and warning devices designed to prevent an accident like this one? It sounds more like terrorism than an accident. Perhaps an expert on Blackhawks can weigh in here,

he wrote online

You can't tell me this isn't suspicious. My heart aches for those on that plane. Literally everyone's worst nightmare.”

Uploading a clip of the tragedy, he captioned the post

Conspiracy theories don't f---ing help Taylor. I live in DC like 10min from Reagan, they share air space with Joint Base Bolling. So it's common to see Airport planes and mil aircraft flying overhead, the problem came down to horrible communication, either with (ATC) or the Helo.”

Someone commented

One for obviously operating the helicopter because it was being flown by the Army, but also air traffic control that’s regulating and monitoring that airspace is FAA, which is again a government agency,

Brauchle said

Typically, right after — obviously, the families are dealing with a lot of shock and grief right now — a lot of times it’s really hard for people to wrap their minds around aircraft accidents because they’re just not supposed to happen,

James Brauchle told Fox News Digital Thursday, adding

So, I'm going to assume that that's going to happen,

Brauchle said

Even the most skilled pilots are going to make human errors, because they’re human. We have wanted humans to be very much in control, and that has worked to get us to a great safety record today,

But, ... he maintained ... Cox said

I’m 99 percent sure the Black Hawk [crew] was confused about which airliner they were talking about,

Greenspun said

Full autonomy in the ... We do think there are some advancements that exist to bring to the cockpit alongside human pilots, driver-assist type stuff, to augment their capabilities and to help them to their jobs better. Does an automatic transmission make a bad driver into a good one? No. But it’ll make things a lot easier.”

Cox went on, but, he said

If you were to try to hit an airplane with a helicopter, it’s pretty hard,

Henderson told The Independent

It’s a shame, because air traffic controllers really are excellent people, but, after 70-plus years of trials, maybe human excellence just isn’t enough,

Greenspun said, noting that those working in ATC towers

I don’t think DEI is a factor here,

Greenspun said, emphasizing that

The avionics in the Hornet were designed in the 80s and 90s,

Cox told The Independent

Engines are more reliable, systems have multiple redundancies, as a society we’ve driven all of those causes down,

he said

Most aviation accidents are [the result of] an accident chain,

he said

Kirsten Gillibrandsenator

I ask that you take all necessary steps to promptly investigate these incidents to determine if they fit a larger pattern of malfunction with the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter,

Gillibrand shared in a letter to the DoD