NTSB: 2011-2024 at DCA “at least one TCAS resolution advisory (RA) was triggered per month due to proximity to a helicopter. In over half of these instances, the helicopter may have been above the route altitude restriction.” Read the NTSB report and more at www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...
This is glorious 😂
#SuperbowlLIX
🔴 #BREAKING | PSA Airlines Flight 5342, a Bombardier CRJ-701ER (N709PS) carrying 64 passengers, collided midair with a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk near Washington Reagan National Airport, crashing into the Potomac River. #AmericanAirlines #News
At the link below:
· Granular ADS-B data for #AA5342
· Granular Mode S data for PAT25
· Details on why the helicopter was not visible on Flightradar24 (Mode S only, not enough data to calculate MLAT)
· Updates as they become available
www.flightradar24.com/blog/psa-air...
Flight path of AA5342
ATC audio captured by @liveatc.bsky.social notes a collision between a CRJ and a helicopter over the Potomac River. The aircraft fitting the description at that time is #AA5342 operated by PSA Airlines for American Airlines. www.flightradar24.com/2025-01-30/0...
Gusts up to 61 knots now in Shannon
Ireland provides a particularly good vantage location from where they can fly their aircraft hundreds of kms out into the North Atlantic using their radar and satellite equipment to examine and measure the ocean surface winds
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
Lions v Commanders is glorious so far! #NFL
Praying Palmer doesn't play now as I have Kluivert on the bench 😂🤞🏻 #FPL
More high resolution satellite images from today with a lot of lying snow still. The contrast across parts of Cork, Kerry and Wicklow is amazing and really does show that county by county warnings need to change to more granular warnings.
...but Happy New Year! 🍾🎉😅
No mention of anywhere outside of Dublin by RTÉ there 🙄
The Department of Defence has signed a deal to buy a new long-range Government jet, with an expected delivery date of December 2025. It is buying a French-made Falcon 6X at a cost of around €53m plus VAT
A meteor shower is expected to light up Irish skies tonight, with up to 20 times more shooting stars than normal
A nice trip to Norrköping for base training 🇸🇪
Friday lunch time update with heavy rain in parts but it will mainly clear with breaks later so don’t let the rain put you off voting. A new survey out shows urban voter turnout is more impacted by bad weather than rural areas. So don’t let us country folk put ye to shame in town and cities 😜 #GE24
France '98 was full of brilliant shirts! 👕
Only took about 30 minutes to setup 😅 Expecting a marked improvement in my gaming ability now 😂
