If I'm following, the tranny posted a video of themselves still alive. Was this one deranged too?
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I read a telegram post claiming the pilot tried to ram two other aircraft on same flight before successfully connecting with the third.
Assuming no remote control of aircraft was in effect, that would qualify as deranged in my book.
Traffic control trusted them to eyeball it, so this is probably untrue.
I spoke to a retired fighter pilot about it at the pub the other night.
His guess was that it had to do with night vision goggles.
Also heard it had been quite some time since the female pilots last flight, as in six months or more.
They take the best students and send them to work.
They take the ones who barely qualify and send them to teach.
They fill up the staff with diversity hires, refuse to hire white men, so now they are understaffed, underqualified, and barely trained.
Same goes for the traffic control.
You can confirm that with the pilot. It's widely known. Horrible strategic decision making.
Jet pilot also said that helicopter told ATC that they had eyes on the flight at which point ATC is off the hook apparently.
Also read claims that chopper made sudden climb from 200 to 350 ft under high power and then vectored to i tercept.
Yes. ATC let them eye ball it. But they were looking at the wrong plane. Both heli and atc didn't bother confirming tail number.
Yes heli was climbing, plane was landing, but there were no sudden movements imo