Questions Plague the Washington Airport Disaster

That’s right, I’m not an aviation expert. But I’ll quote some people who are. And what I say should be understood as raising questions, not making assertions.

I also want to thank some people, who will remain anonymous, who helped me put this together.

First, here’s the best video I’ve seen to date of the Black Hawk helicopter colliding with American Eagle Flight 5342 as it approached for landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on the evening of January 30, 2025:

The weather was clear—great visibility.

Here is a longer, more distant clip. One can see that the chopper remained at approximately the same altitude as the lit-up plane, yet not one of the three crew members noticed the aircraft?

Although the FAA has yet to determine the precise angle at which the Blackhawk (rotor width 53 feet) approached the plane, it appears (and media reports agree) that it came in near-perpendicular, very close to a right angle. OK, a little math. The American Eagle plane was 106 feet long. The news media say it was flying at about 140 mph, which is about 204 feet per second. This means if the Black Hawk had arrived just a half-second later, it would have missed the plane. Perhaps my math is off, but such a collision by chance seems extremely improbable.

No one would question that Black Hawks are highly maneuverable. They can rapidly turn, climb, descend, and, of course, hover. Yet in the videos we can see no last-moment effort by the chopper to avoid the airplane. It almost seems to be on a missile-like mission to strike it. Surely, if as the media, claims, the Black Hawk had a crew consisting of “top pilots with thousands of hours of experience,” they should have spotted the airliner.

Here is a response I received on Gab to a post there. For the sake of privacy, I’ve removed the writer’s name.

And here’s another reply I received on Gab that I thought of interest:

Let me quickly point that I’m not suggesting that three U.S. crewmen would deliberately commit suicide.

However, there are alternative explanations. Three people committing suicide would be unthinkable. But one pilot would not.

Shortly after the tragedy, it was rumored that the helicopter’s pilot—whose name had been withheld, reportedly at family request—might have been a transgender pilot named Jo Ellis. But Ellis turned out to be alive.

The real pilot’s name, Rebecca M. Lobach, was eventually disclosed. Mainstream media have confirmed Lobach had worked as a White House social aide under the Biden administration.

Above: On January 4, 2025, Lobach escorted fashion designer Ralph Lauren to receive the Medal of Freedom from Joe Biden at the White House.

Her social media accounts have all been scrubbed. Was that the real reason for delaying her name’s release? Is it inconceivable that someone, enraged at Trump’s new policies opposing DEI-based hires and promotions, might strike back in a fit of rage? She almost certainly knew she was flying well above the altitude permitted military helicopters.

I don’t consider this scenario likely, but people have been known to commit suicide while killing countless others. Take the case of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771. In 1987, David Burke, a disgruntled ex-employee, boarded the plane with a concealed handgun. He shot his former supervisor, then shot both pilots. The plane hit the ground at an astounding 770 MPH (probably a combination of throttle and gravity), and perhaps with Burkes’ assistance. Of course, all 43 people on board died.

But other explanations for the Reagan National Airport tragedy have been offered. It’s well-known that Sikorsky has developed Black Hawk helicopters that can be flown by remote control. There are several videos about this—for example, here. Don’t let anyone tell you the technology doesn’t exist. Sikorsky openly boasts about it.

People will object: But there must have been air crew on board, because haven’t their bodies have been getting retrieved from the Potomac? Actually, as I publish this, 41 bodies have been recovered, but none have been specifically identified as coming from the Black Hawk.

They very probably will be found, but this doesn’t mean they were alive when the Black Hawk took off. Even the mainstream media has confirmed that U.S. forces are in Ukraine—probably far more than the military admits, since officially we aren’t supposed to be there. But what to do with these soldiers when they return dead, since it would embarrass the Pentagon to admit their mission? One of my well-informed contacts suggests that this is possibly handled by orchestrated “accidents” on American soil. Let’s say, for example, that a helicopter crew of three was shot down in Ukraine. What better way to conceal that than with a fiery helicopter crash in the U.S., the bodies so badly mutilated as to disguise any combat wounds? Might this help account for why, in 2024, the U.S. Army experienced the greatest number of serious helicopter accidents in 17 years? This would, of course, be a very expensive method of disposal, despite the DOD’s “blank check” spending—according to the latest audit, the Pentagon could not account for $2.4 trillion.

And it still wouldn’t explain why it would be necessary to simultaneously destroy an airliner, nor account for the recordings of alleged air traffic control communications with the chopper. Let’s look at these.

I attend a Greek Orthodox Church, but I have visited a Russian Orthodox monastery. After the tragedy, I was surprised to read this in an email from the monastery:

Asking for your prayers for newly departed Vadim and his wife Evgeniya, benefactors and spiritual friends of the monastery, who tragically died in the airplane crash. Asking our Lord to give strength to Maxim, their son who lost his kind parents! Memory Eternal!

So Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were not only former world champion figure skaters, they were also Orthodox Christians. And at least three other Russian nationals were on board.

Was this some sort of bizarre vengeance on Russia? Then why kill American passengers as well? Were other people of interest on board? Given the psychopathic nature of the Deep State, and its willingness to kill Americans, nothing would be too surprising.

But what about those air traffic control conversations?

Captain Steve (290K subscribers) has a background as a Navy pilot and then commercial pilot for United and Delta. He has an extensive analysis of the Flight Control communications at Reagan National Airport here. I love the way he breaks down telecommunications and abbreviations in layman’s terms. But I think his explanation of the collision—that the helicopter was simply watching the wrong aircraft, and didn’t see the next plane behind it—may be oversimplistic. He doesn’t go into the mathematical improbabilities, the visuals, the helicopter’s flying at an unauthorized altitude, or that the ATC never advised the American Eagle jet that a helicopter was dangerously close so they could be on watch for it.

Something else. Normally, it’s a Blackhawk’s pilot who handles radio communications. Captain Steve posted his video before it was announced that Rebecca M. Lobach was the pilot. Why, then, do we hear a man’s voice and not a woman’s coming from the helicopter?

Although Captain Steve receives overwhelming favorable comments, this stood out to me; the print is small, so I’ll reproduce it afterwards:

I am a controller. When approving visual separation we also must call traffic to the converging aircraft and inform him/her the (helo in this case) has them in sight and is maintaining visual separation. The RJ was never given a traffic call. That is mind-blowing.

The traffic calls to the helo are sloppy at best. The second one when he says, “do you have the RJ in sight?” That’s not a legal traffic call. There was no clock position or mileage or altitude or direction of flight. This made it easy for the helo to confuse which aircraft the controller meant. Just sloppy.

Also, no traffic alert was given.

So, there were definitely traffic control deficiencies as well. ATC could have prevented the crash by simply telling the chopper to descend to its normal restricted altitude.

However, I want to say something in favor of the air traffic controllers. According to media reports, one controller was doing the work of two on that tragic night. Conditions of overwork and understaffing will lead to errors. As a retired 45-year registered nurse, I can attest to that. Perhaps the controller at Reagan National felt comfortable with the Black Hawk’s assurance that they had the aircraft in sight with “visual separation.”

Another of the tragedy’s unusual aspects is that, according to Reuters, the Black Hawk was on a “continuity of government” training drill—for evacuating top Washington officials in the event of an extreme emergency, such as a nuclear strike—and that this was the first time since the September 11, 2001 attacks that “continuity of government” drills had been activated. I have to wonder if this might relate to the possible events I discussed in my recent post “Should We Beware the Ides of April?

My intention in writing this post has not been to hurl accusations at anyone, or reach definite conclusions. Maybe it was an unfortunate accident. But I did want to point out the anomalies, and some possible alternative explanations that might be explored.

 

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