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🗓️ 1 February 2025
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Jim discusses with colleague and close friend, Retired SA Bobby Chacon, the tragedy in the air at Washington National Airport where a military Black Hawk Helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet.
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0:00.0 | In an airplane, in a jet ski, for example, when you lower your speed, you decrease your maneuverability. |
0:05.8 | And so, you know, they're totally focused on landing, getting that plane on the ground, getting lined up, making sure their air speed is proper, you know, the approach angle and everything else. |
0:14.5 | They are not looking left right. |
0:16.1 | They do that initially when they're getting ready. |
0:19.1 | But when they're that close to it. |
0:21.6 | Hello and welcome to Best Case, Worst Case. This is Jim Clementi, retired FBI profile |
0:26.9 | of former New York City prosecutor and writer-producer of criminal minds and Bluebeard on Audible. |
0:31.3 | And with me today is one of my buddies. |
0:34.2 | Hi, I'm Bobby Jocon, retired FBI agent, Investee of the mob, Jamaican gangs, and most notably ran the FBI dive team. |
0:43.2 | Well, Bobby, thanks for coming back. |
0:45.7 | And I know this has been a really busy time for you. |
0:48.6 | You've been on all the different news networks for the last two days since we've had a terrible, terribly tragic crash. |
0:58.9 | And it was an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter from the military. |
1:07.1 | So it went down right right just before the landing strip in Washington National Airport. |
1:16.7 | So can you tell me what you've learned, what, what has happened, and then what is happening? |
1:24.4 | Sure. I'm sure that most people have seen the news coverage and the news footage of it. I've been on many, many different news shows over the last two days, as I am whenever something hits the water because I created and ran the FBI diet program for a number of years. And so whenever there's something like this that happens in or around the water, I get, |
1:51.1 | I get called in a lot. So, yeah, I mean, as best we can tell, and as, as the most updated information that NTSB put out today, they believe, and of course, this is all belief. |
2:00.1 | The NTSB, preliminary, NTSB puts out a report in 30 days. |
2:04.7 | So that's their first preliminary report is 30 days. |
2:07.1 | So this is preliminary preliminary. |
2:09.0 | It's not even the, so they put out a preliminary report within 30 days of the accident. |
2:14.5 | And then they have up to a year according to the record according to the records |
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