A passenger jet has collided with a helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Thats a lot of mental gymnastics there. What you are describing is correlation. And it proves nothing, in fact it is often very misleading. It is also great proof that the right doesn’t have a monopoly on people who don’t care about facts when spouting their opinion. See, if you had read… the air traffic controlled told the helo pilot about the plane. The helo pilot said they saw the plane and requested permission to avoid it on their own, rather than get specific instructions. That was granted. The ATC even called back when they didn’t see the helo change course, and got the same basic response. So the FAA had nothing to do with causing this. The helo pilot was the cause. Some assume the helo pilot was looking at a different plane. We will probably never know. But it seems they made a mistake.