The tragic helicopter-plane collision near Washington D.C.’s Reagan National Airport (DCA) just got a whole lot uglier — and the new details are downright infuriating. According to reports now coming out, Captain Rebecca Lobach, the female pilot of the U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter, repeatedly ignored urgent warnings from her male co-pilot to alter course, flying directly into an American Airlines passenger jet and killing all 64 passengers onboard, along with the three Blackhawk crew members.
This wasn’t some unavoidable accident or freak equipment failure — it was human error, plain and simple, and it cost nearly 70 innocent lives.
Video footage from the Kennedy Center webcam shows the horrifying moment as the Blackhawk blundered straight into Flight 5342. Meanwhile, a preliminary FAA report admitted that staffing at DCA’s air traffic control tower was “not normal.” Shockingly, only one controller was responsible for monitoring both helicopter and airplane traffic — a situation that’s almost begging for disaster.
The @nytimes story on the January DC plane crash hides its takeaway until the last sentences: the lady helicopter pilot ignored multiple warnings from her right seat about altitude (and his directly telling her to turn away) and flew straight into a passenger jet.
The end. Ugh. pic.twitter.com/7emtYkZTwQ
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 27, 2025
But what’s even worse is what we’ve now learned about Captain Lobach herself. She had a grand total of 45 hours of flying experience under her belt and, as it turns out, was previously an aide to Joe Biden. Because, of course she was. The Army suspiciously delayed releasing her name for three days — just enough time, conveniently, to scrub her social media.
The New York Times finally exposed the details the government didn’t want you to know: Lobach was flying too high, wasn’t following her flight path, and when her co-pilot — a seasoned Army flight instructor — told her to turn left to avoid the collision, she ignored him. Fifteen seconds away from impact, a simple left turn would have opened a safe path away from the approaching jet. But she didn’t turn. She just kept flying — and the result was catastrophic.
Let’s be honest here: this was criminal negligence, not just an unfortunate accident. Political appointments, lowered standards, and a culture obsessed with checking diversity boxes instead of competence just claimed dozens of lives.
And where’s the accountability? So far, crickets from the Pentagon, the Biden White House, and the media outlets that would be demanding answers if the roles were reversed.
This wasn’t just a tragic accident — it was a preventable disaster brought on by incompetence, arrogance, and a refusal to put the safety of others above political narratives. Those 64 souls — and their families — deserve justice, not more cover-ups.