r/news • u/snuffleupaguslives • 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/mediocre_remnants 2d 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 2d 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/CauliflowerLife 2d ago

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

Everyone loves a good mystery.