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Original poster

Why is there so much focus on the plane crash in the USA?

58 replies

Azzywhatty · 31/01/2025 15:27

I’m saying it’s wrong necessarily, but it’s been rolling news all day and I can’t understand why.

It’s awful and tragic and the families need answers, but why is it rolling news?

OP posts:

28Fluctuations · 01/02/2025 10:31

The US media is set up to pump out endless, repetitive, often speculative content, and they thrive on sudden, shocking events: hurricanes, fires, air crashes, earthquakes, school shootings, riots, etc. 24 hour rolling content, little interest in international events to take up air time, and these events are dead easy to report on. All that content is then picked up and reported on here - it's interesting, salacious, and there is just so very much of it.

The US is a reality show that we like to watch. And they keep filming all the time.

JeremiahBullfrog · 01/02/2025 10:48

It's the world's most powerful military, and they're flying helicopters into people in their own capital! There's something more than mildly concerning about that.

StMarie4me · 01/02/2025 10:49

Seriously OP?

It's an horrific event that has claimed many lives, and it should not have happened. Just don't read the reports if you don't care.

Cerealkiller4U · 01/02/2025 11:56

MILLYmo0se · 01/02/2025 09:38

And the fact that it's a helicopter that is apparently able to be flown remotely and therefore hackable adds to it. I don't know how true that is, does it apply to lots of types of helicopters etc but its part of the story of this accident now.
As far as I can see the huge fear is that Tump (or Musk behind Trump, and he has had issues with aviation officials because of his test flights etc) are attempting to destabilise the country through a series of such events, bringing people onto the streets in protest this allowing for military rule type situation to be evoked.
If it were anyone but Trump and Musk I'd be laughing at it but with those two I think it may be a credible fear. There doesn't seem to be an logical reasoning for the firings across the aviation authorities, the man has allowed attempted to just simply remove a section of the American constitution, it's quite scary

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why didn’t the TCAS systems kick in?

this is what they call the Swiss cheese effect. Neither of them should have been able to get in each others way. The Swiss cheese is when all these events line up perfectly and causes this huge incredibly rare events.

the TCAS system should of kicked in!!’ All the other mechanical systems should have kicked in.

Cerealkiller4U · 01/02/2025 11:57

@MILLYmo0se

no. You can’t hack a military helicopter. That’s just conspiracy theories.

Neodymium · 01/02/2025 12:10

We had 2 helicopters collide mid air in Australia last year, it seems like helicopters have a bigger risk to crash into other aircraft. Never hear about 2 planes colliding

SheilaFentiman · 01/02/2025 13:28

Neodymium · 01/02/2025 12:10

We had 2 helicopters collide mid air in Australia last year, it seems like helicopters have a bigger risk to crash into other aircraft. Never hear about 2 planes colliding

Helicopters are generally flying at lower altitude so they have less of a vertical separation in which to avoid each other. By which I mean a copter at 200 feet altitude and one at 300 feet, vs a plane at 30,000 feet and one at 31,000 feet.

SheilaFentiman · 01/02/2025 13:30

@Cerealkiller4U other threads have explained that the TCAS doesn’t give alerts at low level (500 feet or so) because the craft will be “close” to many objects when it is so close to ground level.

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