Sunday, February 2, 2025

Hoo-boy! This thing is getting fouled up

With respect to the air craft collison over the Potomac River in DC

Too many people out there saying it "went straight to the plane" (paraphrasing)



This kind of comment is being repeating around and around. There's no "straight" line here that's even possible. These aircraft were moving at speeds over 100 mph, and from different directions. How is it possible then to move "straight to it"? The plane is not stationary. It is moving FAST.

It may look that way on a two-dimensional TV screen. There's an extra dimension though, and both aircraft are on different axes in the three dimensional space. I'd say that there's a real low probability that you could hit it intentionally EVEN IF YOU TRIED. The appearance that it did is mostly an optical illusion.



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