Well, Lookie Here….

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.

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Exsqueeze me Mr. Man, but the patriarchy don’t fly on this Blackhawk. How dare you try to mansplain flying to a strong independent woman that don’t need no man? Don’t you know that Captain Lobach was a “White House military social aide in the Biden administration”? Checkmate chauvinist. Now sit down and watch a woman work.

Hey that plane seems kinda close….

This guy gets it…

While I am not a pilot of any sort, I would like to think that if I was and I was flying in very crowded airspace like D.C. and the tower was telling me to turn left and the guy assigned to evaluate me was telling me the tower said to turn left….

I would turn left.

That’s just me and I am a well known misogynist.

I didn’t know this chick and you probably didn’t either but you and I can add 2 plus 2 and come up with 4. Why she refused the instructions to turn left is something no one can know for sure but again, you can probably make an educated guess.

Bottom line, flying a military chopper or any aircraft is an enormous responsibility and one that should be carefully distributed based only on factors like competence and mental and physical aptitude. Instead Captain Rebecca Lobach is dead as are two male service members named above and a whole plane full of civilians.