Black Hawk crash – NYT investigation: “her assignment was to navigate the conditions of a scenario in which members of Congress or other senior government officials might need to be carried out of the nation’s capital in the event of an attack”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/us/politics/takeaways-investigation-airport-collision.html

The real answer is probably a year away. Normal safety tech was disabled to better simulate evacuation protocols. Pilot error part of the picture but NYT doesn’t address the big question about how much risk the military should put on civilian air traffic as part of military training. That failure in logic will is far up the chain of command.