- A passenger plane and a military helicopter collide over the Potomac, killing 67, and who does Trump blame?
- Trump’s vile plane crash press conference;
- David A. Graham on how Trump is just watching, not taking charge;
- Allan Pettersson’s Symphony #8.
Last night an American Airlines jet with 64 people aboard, including a number of ice skaters and their coaches, collided with a US Army helicopter (with a crew of 3) over the Potomac River in Washington D.C., moments before the plane was due to land at the Reagan National Airport just south of Washington D.C. Late last night and this morning TV watchers saw a video clip from someone who’d captured the collision. The plane on a glide path from the right, as this map shows; the military helicopter flying in from the left, and an explosion. Both aircraft landed in the river, the plane broken into pieces and the helicopter upside-down. It was quickly established that there were no survivors. When I saw the updates this morning, I predicted that Trump would blame Biden. I was right, but not completely right.
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The latest despicable display by the new administration is how, yet again, Trump and his minions blame everything bad that happens in the world the same set of people and ideas they don’t like. Without evidence of course. Textbook definition of prejudice. Pre-judgments regardless of facts. For everything that happens, like the plane crash last night in Washington DC, all they know is to invoke the usual suspects, the usual villains.
NY Times, 30 Jan 2025: How the Plane and Helicopter Collided in Washington: Maps and Graphics
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