Investigators say the collision occurred at an altitude of 278 feet — even though the Army helicopter shouldn’t have been flying above 200 feet on that portion of the route. NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy has previously said the Black Hawk pilots might not have been aware of how high they were because their barometric altimeter may have been displaying the wrong altitude. And Army representatives said this week that it wasn’t unusual for barometric altimeters to be off by that much.

“In my experience, a difference of 80 feet or so between the radar altitude and the barometric altitude would not be cause for alarm," U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Kylene Lewis told investigators.

Radar altimeters measure the distance between an aircraft and the ground, while barometric altimeters use air pressure to estimate altitude.

NTSB member J. Todd Inman pressed others from the Army and from Sikorsky Aircraft, which manufactures Black Hawk helicopters, about why the barometric altimeters used weren’t more accurate, especially since Army helicopters sometimes pass near civilian flights.

“You just told me, I believe, all of the equipment in this manufacturing process is within the tolerances for safety. How much is that tolerance?" Inman asked. “I think it should be zero.”

The military representatives said at the hearing that the Army is considering changes to the flight manual to let pilots know about discrepancies with altitude readings.

Before the accident, FAA staff had raised concerns about the Army helicopter route’s proximity to commercial flights landing at the airport. The 12th Aviation Battalion’s Bravo Company, which operates out of Virginia’s Fort Belvoir, ran training missions in the area related to priority air transport and continuity-of-government operations.

Allen, the former DCA tower operations manager, said a working group at the airport had considered the possibility of moving what was known as Route 4 or even eliminating part of it. “And both of those options we were told we were unable to do due to continuity of government operations or security,” Allen said.

During the hearings, Homendy blasted the FAA for not acting on the safety concerns of its employees. “Are you kidding me? Sixty-seven people are dead! How do you explain that? Our bureaucratic process?” she said. “Fix it. Do better.”

Yeah I’d like to believe they’d get this half right and get actual professionals… but it’s Trump and he’ll just create a literal skyscraper of “the bearings will continue until morale improves” and claim it’s a new kind of mental health care or something

Oh this is definitely going to bring back the institutions of old…

This is toddler levels of tough guy negotiations

This reads and looks like it should be an onion headline

Of course they’re not, they were always bullshit that a toddler could see through

Exactly, they don’t want you to have time to think and call but even if weird any place I’ve used or worked has been fine with you calling back on the main line yourself to make sure it’s the right place.

Taking that time to think is hard in the moment though.

This sounds like a good reminder to never trust incoming communication beyond ending the conversation and calling the company/person/whatever directly using a # you already have for them/a number from their confirmed website.

Ah yes the tried and true “fuck reforming them when it’s cheaper to rejoice in their death” argument. Yup, clearly no better way to have handled this than dead kids and paying to incarcerate someone for life. Definitely no cheaper way to have helped these kids to a better life nope no sir-ee….

Looking at the septa lines being possibly cut it’s gonna screw over a lot of people, in areas where cars are already problematically dense. It’s gonna be a shitshow

0% interest is not really accurate in the laypersons sense though. They make money off of “fees” that totally aren’t interest, they’re just the equivalent to payday loan type interest if you calculated the rate. Some are within affordability if you pay quickly but skyrocket after the 90 day mark as well.

I shop for two people and buy 2 days food at a time. On average each store visit have been $30 at Safeway, $26 at Kroger and $19 at Walmart. These large grocery chains are massively screwing people and the only difference I can find is at least Safeway doesn’t try to trick you with bullshit pricing.

With the amount of fucking stupid going on you never know anymore lol. I mean only 38% of people are current on their federal loans apparently so it’ll be fine…….

Hold up private collections? Sorry I missed that one. Do you have a link on that? I haven’t seen that stated yet

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Yes but it almost never does anything

They can not only garnish your paycheck but also your social security aka retirement money…

The fact they still say they have faith in the dipshit is astounding

It would be worth a try since this seems to be mostly performance related glitches

Offhand anecdotes here as I only have Ubuntu on a 2012 MacBook.

That said the error post update is likely just a service that didn’t restart properly. Many of these are not necessarily critical, does it say what program crashed? A reboot would guarantee a fix here.

Unfortunately the issues with apps might be the snap packaging, this does slow apps down a bit which could cause pretty much all the remaining issues. I haven’t personally used it but might look up flatpak as a replacement and see if that helps. If others don’t explain how to do this I will try to come edit this later with an explainer or link or something to help.