The Potomac Crash, The Northern Border, and The Confirmation Battles
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Hey, everybody. Today, the Charlie Kirk Show latest of what happened over the Potomac breaking news here with Amber Smith, an analysis of Cash, Tulsi, and Bobby Kennedy, and then Josh Parker, who might be running for Congress in upstate New York, joins the program. Email me, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com, and subscribe to our podcast. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa.com. That is tpusa.com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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We have a very special guest here to help us understand what exactly happened. Amber Smith, former helicopter pilot, author of Unfit to Fight, How Woke Policies Are Destroying the Military, and former senior Pentagon official to break down the breaking news. Amber, thank you for joining the program.
Thanks for having me.
Amber, there's some recent news here, at least some new video footage, that shows if the helicopter was almost not pursuing but accelerating into the airplane. What is the latest news here? And break it down for the audience of what your theory is what happened that evening.
Sure. So I was an Army helicopter pilot for almost eight years, well over 1,500 flight hours. And based off everything that I have seen in terms of the audio and the video, including the one you just mentioned that just came out, is that the Army helicopter air crew most likely confirmed visual confirmation of the incorrect aircraft so when tower gave them uh the warning of traffic ahead uh they were looking at the wrong plane basically and then likely never even saw the aircraft that they ended up flying into And it's, you know, an incredibly tragic and horrific situation. But in Army aviation, especially when it comes to helicopters, things are moving a million miles an hour. You have a lot going on in the helicopter. We are learning a lot about some mismanagement of the National Capital Region airspace around Reagan, some of the helicopter corridors.
And the altitudes involved there and very minimal altitude separation requirements between these incoming landing planes to Reagan and the helicopter traffic around them. A big red flag that I have seen in all of this is how common it has become. happened, that the tower at Reagan is allowing these helicopters to fly underneath or behind incoming commercial planes as they're coming into short final to land at the runways. That is extremely risky. It sets up unsafe conditions, as we've seen, because altitude deviations in a helicopter is can happen in the blink of an eye, a wind gust. And what they have in terms of that separation right now is completely unsafe.
So, yeah, I mean, it's a very basic question. Again, I'm just a civilian. Whose idea was it to have the army do military exercises even remotely close to the airspace of Reagan? I mean, there's plenty of other places you could do army training theoretically, right? I mean, it's a big country, a lot of rural areas, not near Reagan Airport. Who made this decision and for what possible reason?
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