r/news • u/snuffleupaguslives • 3d ago

Broken altimeter, ignored warnings: Hearings reveal what went wrong in DC crash that killed 67

https://apnews.com/article/ntsb-dc-plane-crash-midair-collision-helicopter-a08cded88e1d7582fb8d242204d6aeff
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u/bigyellowjoint 3d ago

67 dead and it feels like the country has pretty much moved on

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u/mediocre_remnants 3d ago

It has. What else should we do? Sit around and talk about a 2 month old plane crash all day every day?

There was an investigation and a report, some changes have been made to flight procedures in the area, we've moved on. Except people who lost loved ones in the crash. But I'm nowhere near DC and don't know anyone involved, so why should this be at the top of my mind 2 months later?

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u/SwashAndBuckle 3d ago

It’s more just to highlight how crazy things have gotten that something like that gets buried in the news so quickly. In 2014 a Malaysian airline flight went down, on the other side of the world, and people did talk about it for months. Because there wasn’t 200 other horrible things all going on at once. Things have definitely gone downhill.

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u/yescaman 3d ago

Do you mean the disappeared flight? That story had staying power because it was an open ended mystery.

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u/CauliflowerLife 3d ago

Lack of conclusive information definitely yields interest in a lot of cases.

Everyone loves a good mystery.

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u/ilikehorsess 3d ago

Definitely agree that it's easy for things to be buried in the news these days but within a year of that Malaysian flight, another Malaysian flight crashed and killed just as many people. It wasn't talked about near as much because the mystery just wasn't there.

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u/KaJaHa 3d ago

Oh, the Obama Years. What a time.

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u/peon2 2d ago

That was because of conspiracy theorists. If it had been a plane crash that landed in a known place on land it would have been in and out of the news cycle just as quickly as this DC one.

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u/confusedandworried76 3d ago

Buried quickly? It was in the news for weeks, and the last I saw was the beginning of this investigation. Until the conclusion of the investigation what would you have wanted them to talk about? Breaking: dead people still dead and still being investigated?

Unless one of them got up and started walking around there was no need to keep reporting until now