Virginia State Police Helicopter Crash...

52  2017-08-29 by sandvich

Not a day has passed I've not thought of those troopers. To achieve aviation in any State Police has got to be one of the greatest accomplishments of the force. So I was deeply saddened to hear we lost two troopers that day.

I was watching a video this morning and something caught my eye.

Original video I was watching: timestamp: 1:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_VSt-oajBc

look at the helicopter silhouette on the windshield.

then I found this.

https://usauknews.com/watch-man-says-helicopter-crashed-near-charlottesville-virginia-riots/

so I made this in two seconds.

http://imgur.com/a/6Mg7n

Take it for what you will, but I hope this is nothing more than a news chopper and these troopers were off some where else at the time.

Is there anyway to see from the FAA the location of that chopper when the car struck? If it was overhead I might have something. If it was 50 miles away just forget I did this :D

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This is good work on something I'm also super curious about. Good on you sir

Good find! There's another video that has the sound of a chopper which the goof ball calls out as sound of crash...baloney! On cell so look for Zapruder ref in video title...

You can hear a helicopter in Ford Fisher's video right before the crash because he is far enough from the crowd that the sound isn't drowned out.

Tha's the one!

go look at the prob fake ID portraits they put up, they hats are photoshopped into the pictures.

so what does that say about the photos themselves.

Watch it be a private security firm, like at Standing Rock

What am I looking at with the Imugr?

A reflection of a helicopter in the windshield of the minivan involved in the crash.

Ah! Thank you. Good eye OP

Is there anyway to see from the FAA the location of that chopper when the car struck? If it was overhead I might have something. If it was 50 miles away just forget I did this :D

Since not one seems to have bothered to look this up for you, here's the deal.

The car thing happened at about 1:45pm

The helicopter that ended up crashed departed at 1:54pm(perhaps in response to this event) from Chesterfield County Airport(FCI) 70 miles away from the scene and landed at Charlottesville airport(CHO) and then departed at 3:54 pm that same day, crashing at 4:44pm.

It is impossible for it to have witnessed anything as it was not in the air at that time.

Thx. So just a news chopper. Kind of looks like Robinson.

do you have some sources for those numbers, because if you do thats pretty much case close here

I looking back at my sources I'm wrong on the first. I was looking at the flightaware ABS-D data for the helicopter but it was actually the previous day on augest 11th https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N31VA

It appears to have just landed that day in Charlottesville.

The second part is straight from the NTSB

The accident helicopter (N31VA), was a Bell 407, manufactured in 2000. It departed Charlottesville airport at 3:54 pm ET and was over the downtown area at 4:04 pm and engaged in mission-related activities there until 4:42, at which time it departed the area to provide support for a motorcade carrying Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe.

The last observed radar coverage indicates that the accident helicopter was traveling north/northeast at about 30 knots (34 mph) at an altitude of 2,300 feet. The first 911 call reporting the crash was received at 4:44 pm. The crash site is about 7 miles southwest of the Charlottesville airport.

I doubt the NTSB would have left out earlier usage that day of the helicopter in their report.

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Do we still not know what actually caused the crash?

Still don't know. It raised my eyebrows from the beginning.

The Leftists shot it down.

Not sure about the helo, but they're shooting down your comment, heh.

I remember seeing a news page that had a huge paragraph about the car rundown and fight and below it "Also, 2 police officers died in a helicopter crash."

I didn't make a connection but I thought that it was really weird that it was almost a whisper of a mention, even though the 2 were related.

Ah! Thank you. Good eye OP