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Friday afternoon, a new Where is This? puzzle
Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 55.1 | -13.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 46.2 / 51.0 | -4.8 |
| GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
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The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
43 responses to “Friday afternoon, a new Where is This? puzzle”
4 Burg Street, Cape Town South Africa
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correct
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Wow! BillW is the “Where’s Waldo” champ!
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I was going to guess Johannesburg, I knew it was South Africa from the style of the bldgs.
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I heard a comment earlier by Clay Travis I thought made sense.
Yes, we know training helicopter pilots is vital and important including night training.
But couldn’t the Army find somewhere else to do it that doesn’t involve flying around a very congested urban setting airport in an area that already has a lot of helicopter traffic by the WH and other agencies?
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The Army is withholding the name of the female pilot at “the family’s request”.
This is unusual.
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many people have been saying that jason. The last thing a commercial pilot needs to be worried about while on final approach to the runway is looking left and right for training helicopters.
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The female pilot was actually commanding the flight, although the other pilot was an instructor. If she was actually at least 100 feet too high and off course, she will be the primary cause of the accident.
I hope Trump does not blame DEI for that, there are a lot of female helicopter pilots in the Army and National Guard.
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there is also the control tower angle, apparently there was understaffing at the time of the tragic collision.
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A combination of errors by the chopper pilot and the controller (partially caused by understaffing) seems like a reasonable take…
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/01/31/new-what-the-latest-shocking-video-of-dca-mid-air-collision-appears-to-show-n2185036
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Amber Smith
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Jan 29
Army helicopter pilot here. Based on what we’ve seen so far, my guess is the PAT Blackhawk helicopter pilots confirmed visual on the wrong aircraft and likely never even saw the aircraft they crashed into.
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Yep, the video shows another aircraft taking off at the same time, most likely that is the aircraft the pilot thought the tower was referencing.
The tower should have mentioned where the CRJ was, like “traffic is at 10 o’clock” rather than just “do you have a visual”.
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How unlucky you have to be to die in this accident is heart breaking. A half second more or less would have avoided the crash, had either aircraft been going a mile an hour slower or faster, or had departure of either craft been a half second or so earlier or later.
At 200 miles an hour you are moving like 300 ft a second.
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The greatest likelihood is that all the victims were killed more or less instantly. The blunt force trauma of impact would have been more than enough to kill everyone or at the very least render them unconscious, as those in the back of the plane might not have felt the impact as strongly as at the point of collision. But none of these victims drowned. They were dead before they entered the water.
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That is somewhat comforting. My worst fear is drowning.
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Apparently the pilot of the helicopter was female, and the military is refusing to release her name. They have, however, released names and photos of the other members of her crew.
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My worst fear is drowning.
So is mine as I can’t swim.
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It is odd that I like water and boats even though I fear drowning. But I can swim.
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Roosevelt Mall in Philly hit by a small plane.
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The video looks like a projectile coming down. Like a meteor…
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They were dead before they entered the water.”
Well, at least when they hit the water. Hitting water from 300 ft is like hitting concrete. Also it was only 7 ft deep, so the plane hit the bottom of the river also, the impact would not be survivable.
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Has anyone blamed Trump for the mall crash yet?
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yes
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It is near the mall. There is a small airport near there.
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It is interesting that this is also the intersection where crowds gathered after the Eagles won the Super Bowl as well as NFC Championship Games. Also the World Series in 1980 and 2008.
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https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/airplane-crash-northeast-philadelphia-cottman-roosevelt-boulevard/4095479/
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jason 3:12
The male pilot was an Instructor Pilot administering an annual proficiency check evaluation to the female pilot. In both the military and in civilian aviation, the Instructor Pilot is the aircraft commander (military term) or pilot in command (FAA term in civil aviation), irrespective of the crew position of the pilot be evaluated.
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Bitter,
How goes it for you? Haven’t been here for a couple months. (I had a medical issue which has been resolved)
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Good to hear you are ok now, Marv. I’m pretty much the same. I have lost 15 pounds in the last 2 weeks because I started an insulin pump and gave up snacks because I am too stupid to count carbs.
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Bitter,
Glad to hear that you’re able to manage your condition a little bit better.
I lost about 8 lbs myself. Caught the flu which devolved into a serious loss of electrolytes (syndrome inadequate anti-diuretic hormone). Spent 8 days in the ICU. Doctors said the normal protocol in that situation is very slowly bring the electrolytes back in balance via IV fluids, shots etc.
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We need you to be ok. After Walt, you are the oldest poster at HHR.
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Glad you are well Marv.
Understand about the instructor pilot role. The article may have meant the pilot was “commanding the helicopter” because she was piloting it at the time.
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Looks now like there were 6 people aboard medical evac plane, including a doctor and a pediatric patient.
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“Apparently the pilot of the helicopter was female, and the military is refusing to release her name. They have, however, released names and photos of the other members of her crew”
Marv, isn’t this unusual?
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The report is the family does not want her name released. Maybe they don’t her name out there as she may have been responsible for so many deaths.
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Normally the family cannot stop the military from divulging names. Not releasing it is highly unusual once positive identification is made. I don’t see hwo it won’t come out. Everyone at Fort Belvoir will know who she is and it will be leaked.
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It will come out and then the family will have to deal with the fallout of her being blamed for 66 deaths and her own. It is a terrible situation.
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Patient on plane that crashed was a girl returning from Philadelphia Shriner’s hospital to Mexico with her mother. Tragic.
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The family should not have the right to keep her name private. She was 100 feet above the 200 foot flight ceiling and also was not following the prescribed flight path. She has forfeited the right of privacy, alive or dead.
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That Lear jet was a 600 mph gasoline-laden missile when it hit the ground. I hope we find out what caused it to burst into flames during takeoff.
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And no empathy or sympathy for the family, Sane? Should they kill themselves too to atone for their daughter’s failings?
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That was a plane crash? Questionable, until I see more proof.
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NT
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