ARMY HUSH-HUSH ON FEMALE PILOT IN DEADLY D.C. CHOPPER CRASH
By Staff
NEW YORK, January 31, 2025 8 p.m. ET- The Army's is keeping mum today on one of its own after a catastrophic mid-air collision that turned the Potomac into a watery grave for 67 souls.
Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, and Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O'Hara, 28, were named as two of the three ill-fated Black Hawk crew members who smashed into an American Airlines jet Wednesday night. But the third soldier, a female pilot, remains a ghost as the Army honors her family's wish for privacy.
This cloak-and-dagger act has set tongues wagging and fingers typing, with wild speculation running rampant online.
One bogus claim pegged the mystery pilot as a transgender flyer from Virginia, forcing the falsely accused to post a "proof of life."
Defense big shots are tight-lipped about why the chopper was buzzing around D.C.'s crowded skies. Secretary Pete Hegseth mumbled something about a "required annual night evaluation" with the crew sporting night vision goggles.
But the secrecy's got folks asking: What's the Army hiding? Meanwhile, President Trump's not pulling any punches, suggesting the Army crew might be to blame or victims of "woke" hiring practices. Trump claimed that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives had lowered standards in the aviation industry, leading to the crash2. He alleged that the FAA's diversity push included hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.
This got Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an ex-Black Hawk jockey herself, hot under the collar.
"Every one of those troops... earned their place there," Duckworth fumed, calling Trump's comments stomach-turning. As the Potomac gives up its grim harvest, with 41 bodies recovered so far, the nation's left wondering: Who was the mystery pilot, and what really went down on that fateful night?