As I mentioned in another article, I have several thousand hours in high-performance rotary-wing aircraft flying for a Tier One Special Operations unit.

Mid-air collisions do happen.

In my experience, they typically happen on a no-moon night with very low visibility while on night-vision googles, during low visibility in bad weather, while flying in close formation, or when one aircraft makes a violent movement and a close-by aircraft cannot move in time to avoid a collision.

In fact, I am not aware of a collision where an aircraft is on a straight flight path, for a long time, on a clear night, and hits another aircraft essentially flying at the same altitude with massive landing and navigation lights illuminated.

There were two pilots and a crew chief on board. The crew chief's job is to scan for other aircraft when he's not busy.

The co-pilot should have also been scanning constantly (DC is a busy operational area and any well-trained crew would be doing so).

I think the question at least needs to be investigated as to whether this was a suicide crash.

We have motive - President Trump's election and the malicious media narrative that he was going to literally 'kill gay people' or put them in prison.

Today the Blackhawk helicopter's pilot-in-command was identified as Captain Rebecca Lobach.

An apparent lesbian who attended pride events, as the family's statement seems to have confirmed, would be especially cognizant of the President's order to remove transgenders from the military.

Then there is the political angle, as Captain Lobach literally worked inside the Biden White House.

A proper investigation would reveal if there were any signs Captain Lobach was upset over developments and political change in America.

This can't be swept under the rug. We need to know what happened.

I would think the family of the deceased would want an investigation to put aside any doubts.