KTLA: FAA investigates close call between military Black Hawk, United flight at John Wayne Airport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fil_OOX0Dow

#aviation #nearmiss #OCA

United jet nearly crashed into Black Hawk at John Wayne Airport

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@ai6yr

Sounds like a job f̶o̶r̶ by ICE

@ai6yr PROTIP: Don't do that
@ai6yr KTLA (and maybe FlightAware have is as KNIFE25…wonder who it was?
@cvwarren Well, KNIFE12 is flying right now, they came out of Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos... Either US Navy or California National Guard, maybe Army Reserve.
@ai6yr Sounds in the same vein from what I can find searching from my phone—but the flight path is…not what I would expect from anybody but firefighters…
@ai6yr Antennas there?
@cvwarren Could be, or they were just dropping people in the wilderness for training.

@ai6yr once again, it’s the jet doing the crashing, even though it is the military helicopter blundering into its flight path

“The passenger jet was no angel”

@ai6yr I mean, it *is* John Wayne airport. You should expect the Wild West.
@ai6yr Used to be, "military pilot" implied a high level of competency. Nowadays I wonder...
@Ashmire @ai6yr I don't think this is an issue with the pilots, more with the air control system. Didn't Trump utterly destroy that for the US as well a while ago?