Canada's P.M. cancelling that $800M contract with Musk's Starlink

Justin didn't do that, it was the Premier of Ontario. And Elon could care less about $800 Million... he has the whole US treasury now.

water experts explained the water released is headed for low-lying agricultural land, not Southern California, and has no physical route to reach wildfire-affected areas.

No physical route? Can't they just use the same route that the giant faucet on the Columbia River is supposed to use?

Why is this not getting MORE national attention?

Federal government censorship.

Trump blinked!

Meanwhile, the astronauts are still stranded on the ISS.

Promises made, promises broken.

NTSB says they will release new investigation info tomorrow.

I'll apologise for that. I'd hope we are better.

Siegfried returns?!

More convenient, over safety?

Certainly will be one of the questions. Airlines seem to have a lot of direct flights from that airport to VIP home cities.

I will continue to follow the info as it comes out.

I do not think that such a racial slur is appropriate.

No. It's "DEI" now.

previous administration negotiated our last trade agreement -- USMCA --

Must be why "YMCA" is his extremely gay anthem. He thinks it's the same thing.

The practice of seeing how few people it takes to do a job can have dangerous consequences.

Also true. In this case, the understaffing problem was more of shift change issue than overall manpower.

From what I have read, normal practice at that airport was to run 2 controllers throughout the day and drop it to one controller for the night shift.

On the day in question, the change came an hour before the normal shift change time. So, the "not normal" part of staffing was for an hour, and not "normal" for the ATC staffing as a whole.

There will be a lot of focus on how this particular airport has been operated. Very heavy traffic. Very tight operating parameters. FAA has closed 2 runways and the helicopter corridor for the interim.

"Normalization of Deviance" is a common comment. As an example, automated radar "Conflict Alerts" are mostly ignored because they are so common. I read up to 25 per day. Nature of the traffic.

"Elon Musk, with the help of six young men between the ages of 19 and 24 a giant pile of money, is seizing control of the Federal infrastructure."

You know what really doesn't matter? The race and gender of the people involved.

Very true. But all this blabbering about administrative airport staffing isn't all that relevant in this incident either.

The FFA is likely going to have to answer some uncomfortable questions before this is all over.

and placed into an environment that allows them to be read.

I've seen discussions of de-ionised water baths in that regard.

Trump's disruption to the FAA is fair game to be attacked.

I don't think it matters much in this case.

Supposedly, they are designed for such an outcome.

At least it wasn't salt water and didn't take a month to find it.

I look forward to the detailed analyses of the black boxes.

Read the helo CVR was waterlogged when they found it. NTSB preliminary report in 30 days.

MadSci is still on top of things!

Gotta be honest, I'm not sure we're going to get much from the CRV.

It might explain what the crew was looking at, or if there was confusion.

But I wonder if there was a sudden decrease in altitude that is not typical of the normal lowering of altitude during a landing?

I doubt it. Just instrument telemetry update lag is my thought.

the idea of an Airbus at distance appearing to be an RJ, at night, is completely reasonable.

CRV from the helicopter should clear things up if it's readable. Impact was recorded on the CRJ CVR so that one was recovered in entirety.

What you describe might mean that the aircraft dropped down to the altitude of a rising the helicopter?

The CRJ was landing, so it was certainly losing altitude.

series of errors on the parts of several individuals

To me most plausible scenario (based on current info) is the tower told the UH-60 to avoid the CRJ but they mistook a different aircraft (Airbus 319) to be it and never saw the CRJ in the first place.

The A319 was farther away but much larger, and with landing lights on in the direction of the helo would have been pretty distinct. The CRJ was maneuvering to line on the runway they were diverted to so the landing lights would have been diverted.

Did the tower data show the aircraft was also at 200 feet, i.e., at the same altitude the tower thought of the helicopter?

I saw radar plot images showing the CRJ at 400 feet and the UH-60 at 200 feet and then 2 seconds later showed them both at 300 feet. Tower radar resolution runs in 50 foot increments from what I have read.