![Rest in peace to the passengers of this plane. Right now it looks like they were killed because the Washington D.C. police accidentally flew a police helicopter into the airport's airspace. [cw:death]](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/fcf3a242-6256-4cf3-b6e8-6f6de9c18e5a.png){kind=link}
Link to video (crash is the lights on the bottom). Obviously trigger warning for a mass casualty event. https://x.com/MatthewJshow/status/1884791272369541211
Link to video (crash is the lights on the bottom). Obviously trigger warning for a mass casualty event. https://x.com/MatthewJshow/status/1884791272369541211
so the wiki page is showing the call sign as “PAT25” [sourced from a police scanner], which apparently means “priority air transport", and from a 4yo reddit post is “used by all branches carrying VIPs and is usually is followed by the tailnumber”
there’s a pdf of call signs that also contains:
so could have been some fed VIP on that helicopter
e: news mega poster is saying it took off from CIA headquarters based on tracking data