Why American Air Flight 5342 CRASHED & Stock Problems.

a lot of critically important new

details out about the Blackhawk

helicopter that crashed into the

American Airlines flight just last night

killing approximately 67 individuals

with no survivors in this video we'll go

through some Air Traffic Control Data

and some looks at approach plates and

different angles of this incident we're

going to hear exactly what was going on

in just the moments before the crash

we'll also talk about like causes as we

did last night uh in this video since

I'm also going to be covering financial

news I will also be talking about the

disaster that was the UPS earnings

release this morning and who actually a

big beneficiary seems to be of this uh

hint it's another stock caterpillars not

doing that great and of course on the

channel we did Cover Tesla meta and

Microsoft yesterday but we will in honor

of the deep seek week drama cover more

of the deep seek drama we've also got to

talk about the European Central Bank and

some pce data that we got this morning

but first at 8:47 p.m yesterday a flight

uh the American Airlines flight uh that

we've all now unfortunately heard about

uh crashed it was the American Airlines

flight 5342 operated by PSA Airlines uh

and it is expected that absolutely

everyone died now the question is why

did a Blackhawk helicopter with three uh

crew members crash into the American

Airlines flight well we do now know that

the helicopter flight was on a training

flight and took off from around the area

of Langley Virginia and follow the pomac

river down which is not uncommon that a

helicopter would follow either a highway

or river uh in fact it's so common that

people even post videos uh on X

showcasing uh helicopters flying over

the river at a low level during the same

time planes are taking off take a look

at this uh and then you get a little bit

more perspective of the area there uh

and what it looks like it it is an

interesting site to say the least uh

here you go this is an example of a

flight taking off and you can see uh two

what appear to be Blackhawk helicopters

here which you could carry as many as

about 30

uh crew members or individuals taking

off and you can see how shallow and

Marshy the pomac is here uh well you get

ice there it's at some levels 7 ft deep

at some levels it's only waste deep so

uh thanks Kyle for that shot there uh

it's it's not a very deep set of water

which is also unfortunate because well I

mean frankly whether it was water or not

might not matter but when you're falling

out of the sky at about 350 ft which is

the elevation it appears the accident

took place at you're going straight down

from a 30 story building it is quite a

drop uh but what's also very important

here is why did the helicopter not

maintain separation from the plane if

the helicopter on Air Traffic Control

Data indicated they had the plane in

sight what I'm going to do is I'm going

to play for you the Air Traffic Control

Data and then I'll show you what may

have been on the air traffic control

screens at the time of the incident and

I want you to listen closely to these

comms right here so here's Pat which is

priority Air transport 25 uh the

military is confirming that this was a

training flight they did have night

vision goggles on board it's unclear if

they were being used uh and that there

were no senior US military officials on

board this is what they say now having

night vision goggles worth noting could

narrow your field of view substantially

this it's just going to take you down

and kind of kill your peripheral and and

narrow you down to only about a 40° view

which is a lot less than obviously what

you would otherwise have which isn't

great because if you look at a Blackhawk

helicopter you actually have uh just

type in uh you know to YouTube or or

whatever black uh Blackhawk helicopter

uh cockpit and uh you can see there's

actually quite a bit of visibility that

you could get out of the sides uh of

these I'm trying to get a good side

profile picture here this one's decent

uh so uh this is just so shows you some

of the side windows over here here's

another example of a side window uh here

for example the front windows and uh you

even have Windows uh I mean there there

some controls right in the center of it

here but you have Windows up to your

left and up to your right as well

depending on which seat you're sitting

in which also becomes important because

mind you if this was a training flight

then the more experienced pilot was

probably on the right side and the

trainee was probably on the left side

okay why is that so important well

remember this helicopter probably didn't

see a plane descending from the left

from the trainee side so to me it's more

and more starting to look like this was

a training accident a failure of of

training but uh let's go hit for a

moment that uh that air traffic control

commentary we hear and glean some

insights here so Pat priority Air

transport 25 here's the American

Airlines PSA Flight let's

[Applause]

listen flight okay that was Pat

25 do you have the crj in sight okay

that's the Bombadier uh model of playing

here the crj I believe it was 700 Okay

let's listen to that again just so you

can hear that a little more clearly

separation okay aircraft Insight that's

affirmative request visual separation

okay so basically the pilot is saying

hey I got them we're good we're not

going to crash into them you good if we

just stay visually separated that's a

way of saying hey air traffic control I

got him in sight I'll handle the

separation you cool with that that's as

opposed to air traffic control saying yo

Pat turn turn you know left heading XYZ

to get away from that other plane hey uh

uh you know descend climb whatever

giving some form of collision avoidance

instruction because the pilot uh uh

Captain said hey I've got visual uh

separation or or you will you okay if I

maintain that visual separation it's

likely here you could actually see

potentially what it looked like from an

air traffic point of view but anyway

it's likely that air traffic Point

control is like all right he's got him

in sight because look at this you got

the Collision advisory flashing alarms

would be going off right now at Air

Traffic Control uh this is the runway uh

anyway uh you've got uh clearly them are

coming closer together here I want you

to see these altitudes here the pat at

200 look looks like they're actually

climbing uh and then the crj700 at 400

climbing uh or sorry descending and

there you go now they're both at 300 so

you got the helicopter coming up and the

plane coming

down they and then if you got night

vision goggles on how how the heck are

they supposed to see each

other but wait a minute why then did the

helicopter pilot say hey I got him in

sight well probably because he had the

wrong

in sight and and and shout out to uh the

individual who texted me this morning a

military uh pilot who suggested much the

same that he had the wrong bird in sight

let's look at uh exactly this right here

take a look at this this was um this is

departing traffic right here this is our

incident aircraft right the helicopter's

going this way what if it's possible

he's like oh yeah I see that plane

taking off we're good we're so good why

don't you let us handle the

separation oops watch that again and

then I want to give you another profile

view and show you the approach plate

here's the helicopter coming in probably

has this one in sight because look at

this at this level it seems like you're

so far away why would he be talking

about that plane right but look how low

this plane is here it's literally just

now taking off now you might think that

this plane is right in front of this

helicopter I actually don't think it is

I think this plane is substantially

behind the field of view of the

helicopter the helicopter is looking out

and to the right oh yeah we got the

plane in sight no problem request visual

separation oh

crap yeah so what could that look like

well let's look at an actual plate here

for a moment uh

so um this is uh we'll look at that

Arnav in just a moment what you see is

this okay this is what you see on the

video and it's like bro how could you

not see that plane it's a giant white

light okay but wait a minute you know

what that giant white light is that's

not the position light of the plane

that's not that's not the the light of

the plane that that helicopter sees like

to us we're like goodness gracious how

could you miss that look at that giant

light but you know what those lights are

those are the landing lights and they

only point

forward so that that helicopter was not

seeing those giant Flash lights uh in

fact uh at night let's do a position

Light plane uh this is going to be the

uh right wing so we're going to have a

little green light uh at most I got a

picture of a red one here that would be

pretty good uh at most what you're

really going to see I'll just show the

red one this is the wrong side uh since

the red is the left and the helicopter

would have seen the green light but I'll

just show this just so you could see it

take a look at this this is really more

uh just that red light what you would

have seen uh and then of course there's

a flashing strobe as well but the

landing light is the one in the front uh

and so from the side you're seeing

substantially fewer lights It's Kind

like with the exception of the strobes

that are you know flashing

intermittently The Landing lights that

you see are these but that's again

pointed forward it's almost purposefully

designed not to shine sideways to Blind

other people uh so uh let's see side

view aircraft at night to try usually

you could see planes pretty well at

night I personally like flying at night

as a pilot because I actually find it

easier to see traffic but there are some

Logistics here as to why this was

probably harder and you're going to see

that on this iPad drawing okay so the

position lights are forward you've got

uh the heli which is this green line

coming straight over right uh and then

you in the picture that we see we see

this other red you know uh uh plane

taking off that looks like it's so much

higher it starts obviously lower but

from this angle we can't really see what

it really looks like my assumption is it

actually looks like this from a top down

view so if you look at this top down

you've You' got a helicopter slightly

climbing right here potentially even

speeding up like trying to get past the

airport traffic hey got him in sight

yeah man we got him in sight Air Traffic

Control we got him in sight request

visual separation they're pointing at

this guy they've got night vision

goggles on so their view is a disaster

uh they're probably when they're over

here and they had a chance of seeing the

plane turning and coming in it was proba

probably substantially higher than them

uh which again I technically should be

drawing from this side right because the

plane is coming in for a descent like

this uh and so it's substantially higher

than them uh and then you've got night

vision goggles obscuring your vision and

the plane basically as you're climbing

kind of just comes down and almost it's

it's on its Landing path worst case

scenario it's in your blind spot

basically uh and and almost looks like

it lands on top of you uh but really

it's more that the helicopter crashes

into the side of it I think it might be

a little bit easier to just again

visualize that and then I want to show

you the approach plate here visualize

that like this so you've got a Hilo uh

will make this this cup will be the

helicopter okay I don't have a

helicopter model so the plane comes in

uh turns in like this notice how the

cockpit is facing away right in the turn

in the bank from the helicopter you

level out you're coming in like this the

plane is actually descending like this

and the helicopter is like yeah we got

that plane way over there we got that

plane in sight no problem at all you

watching that plane you watching that

plane you watching that

PL especially with those night vision

goggles and no guarantees that they were

we ing them but we we are aware that

they were on board

now look something else uh to pay

attention to here uh is the rnav

approach uh for this uh uh for this

airport we're going to look at that uh

Runway 33 here so uh what I want you to

think about here is we have an approach

that comes along this River over here uh

there's an initial approach fix this is

where you're going to start uh getting

ready to descend and prepare for your

landing and then you have a Final

Approach fix after which you basically

go visual you assume that air traffic

control is got has got you cleared and

you're going to descend through all

altitudes to go land here so there

really wasn't a floor after that Final

Approach fix nzi there really wasn't a

floor that the plane shouldn't go below

so you've got 1 1700 at nzi you're just

trying to follow a typical slope down to

the runway typically 3° of slope so from

here there's no mandated minimum

altitude it's just follow this at a 3°

slope over turn and go land on the

runway you use the river so you could

avoid this 400t OB 440 obstacle over

here the 260

obstacle and then you land of course the

helicopter as we saw came from over here

uh and collided uh with uh the plane now

uh there is another angle that we could

take a look at as well uh that other

angle is right here uh we'll play that

one more time right

here there you go uh it's uh it's just

terrible it's just

absolutely terrible uh and um I I think

this will just go down unfortunately as

a terrible training accident this was

the flight path of the helicopter uh it

is possible that they did not have their

adsb

broadcasting uh however they should be

showing up on radar and I want to

explain what that looks like with uh

traffic and what I've learned as a pilot

uh what not to do and I think it's very

very important now first I just want to

disclose that look I'm a newer pilot

I've got about 150 160 hours with about

400 Landings uh I'm working my

instrument rating I've got my check ride

coming up from my instrument rating in

in a few weeks here uh and one of the

things that I find with trainers just

worth talking about is that typically

the way it works is the most experienced

trainers end up going on to either in my

opinion doing Missions at the military

or they end up going on to guess what uh

go fly at the airlines so the point of

that is you you usually don't have the

most experienced people training you uh

the downside of that is I feel like

you're often getting people who get the

bare minimum number of hours to be a

trainer about 250 hours and then they're

the ones training other people so you

don't usually get the most experienced

people just because of the way that

Aviation works and I Reg L hear people

tell me in training oh don't worry when

you're flying your Final Approach fix on

those approach plates like I just showed

you uh air traffic control is

maintaining separation for you you don't

have to worry about it and every single

time I say well guess what I got seven

kids and I'm worried about it so what I

have is I have an iPad I have a phone I

have a senty and obviously all of the um

uh you know g3000 Electronics in front

of me on the flight deck uh and what I

like to do is I like to actually ask Air

Traffic Control hey are you talking

about XYZ tail number so for example if

I come in for a landing I might look at

my iPad which shows me all these little

triangles and this isn't a an exact

example but let's just say uh that right

here uh these triangles you see there

one 2 three in a row right let's say

that I'm the third arrow on the right I

will say or I'll usually hear from Air

Traffic Control hey you know 816

whatever whatever your number three to

land behind the uh Cessna that's number

two in front of you and I'll click on

the triangle that I think they're

talking about and I'll say I'll look at

it and go say the tail number ends in

pee PE okay I'll say to air traffic

control hey Air Traffic Control just

confirming uh I'm following uh the

number two with tail number PE PE right

they'll confirm affirmative yep you're

following blah blah blah blah number two

you're number three got it I'm number

three that's typically what I do and

I'll do that on instrument approaches as

well because I don't want any of these

triangles coming anywhere close to me

now is it possible that the helicopter

didn't even show up as a triangle yes

because the Blackhawks don't have to

transmit the adsb data uh now they will

generally show up on radar though

especially around airports when what

happens is airports will pick him up on

radar and then broadcast that out and

we'll pick him up so there should have

been a triangle but nobody's trained to

look at traffic on finals so it's very

unlikely that the plane was or the

pilots were trained or expected to pay

attention to traffic once they were

cleared of land because everybody in

training always says once you're cleared

of land don't worry about it and I'm

like I'm worried about it uh and I just

think that's a big failure in the

aviation Community uh but anyway uh

Beyond that you've also then got a

helicopter that is misidentifying which

plane they're talking about right so

this is how you end up with a disaster a

cluster F and a lot of dead people and

it's absolutely miserable so I'm very

very sad uh and saddened by this uh but

hopefully a lot of people can learn from

this and we never end up seeing this

this again

anyway that's it for the aviation

disaster my heart goes out to the

families that are affected apparently a

lot of younger uh skaters were affected

like ice skaters uh training for the

2030 Olympics just so sad so sad anyway

uh this morning we got some uh us uh USA

um I can't even speak anymore we we got

some uh GDP numbers for Q4 they came in

a little lighter than expected 2.3

versus 2.6 nobody cares it's above 2%

nobody's going to Care initial claims

were better than expected at 207 versus

225 continuing uh actually down the

continuing claims were down from last

week where they had spiked over over 1.9

for a moment so actually a good thing uh

then you've got the European Central

Bank cut rates by 50 basis points uh

people are still cheering that Microsoft

and meta didn't lower their capex more I

think this is misguided I've talked

about it before I'll keep talking about

it it's it's way too uh how should I say

um it's it's way too early to say oh uh

yeah look Microsoft and meta they

haven't reduced their uh uh their capex

yet this is this means uh they don't

actually care about deep seek and my

response to this is um no they actually

do really care and it's way too early to

expect to see capex adjustments here uh

so that's just my take we'll watch this

SoftBank now apparently in talks to

invest 15 to 25 billion into open AI

it's unclear if those talks started

before deep seek probably uh and so I

don't know if they'll actually end up

going through with that but that would

make them the largest investor in uh

open AI larger than Microsoft at 14

though they'll have a lower stake

because Microsoft got in at a lower

valuation although after deep seek that

valuation probably is a lot lower uh

regarding uh Donald Trump and tariffs

apparently according to Bloomberg and

what people are hearing on the hill uh

the Trump team is still trying to quote

figure out what to do that new tariffs

have been threatened but they haven't

arrived yet Trump has given a deadline

of February 1st for 25% in tariffs on

Canada and Mexico 60% on China but he's

already walked back the China ones after

talks with Cen ping uh and we'll see

what happens on February 1st here the

treasury secretary bassent is focused on

a tax package and honestly I don't think

uh Trump is really going to follow

through with a lot of these tariffs they

mostly seem to be a negotiation tool

which is kind of exactly what everybody

well not everybody but a lot of people

were talking about before he became

president so I guess we'll keep an eye

on it UPS missed Revenue by 35 basis

points their capex came in at 35% though

versus expectations and uh their deal

with Amazon apparently has uh

expectations that Amazon is going to

lower volume with them for smaller

Parcels by up to 50% in the second half

of 2026 by the 20 second half of 2026

who seems to be winning from this by the

way because it's not UPS stock they're

down

14% in pre-market it actually seems to

be Walmart uh look at Walmart it's up

76% over the last year it's at all-time

highs uh literally right now uh and

apparently Walmart's monthly active

users were up 11.7% in December with the

monthly active users just basically

going straight up you see that uh on

screen right here data compiled by

sensor Tower and Goldman Sachs here uh

uh and uh it seems like people Walmart

is sort of winning that whole like trade

down consumer or customer uh then you've

got caterpillar which also missed

revenue for q4x 3% and guided lower uh

this this q1 then uh last q1 their stock

is down

4.2% obviously we've also got uh

movement here on uh Tesla still up uh

nicely in the uh in the premarket still

up about 4% though it's been a little

volatile in the pre-market and uh yeah

so with that let's get into the Daily

Wealth of the day uh I want to touch on

uh a little story that I got from Jack

then the dad joke of the day so uh well

I guess it's less of a story it's sort

of more of a a tip from Jack so uh

Jack's tips this morning uh were that uh

you should not say bad words uh if you

do YouTube don't say bad words so more

people can watch also don't say bad

words in other jobs if you get mad if

you get mad get away from the

conversation or get away from the

problem also respect your teachers even

if they're not perfect themselves and

always be kind and honest well that was

very nice Jack uh then we've also got a

uh dad joke of the day which

is I told a joke on a zoom meeting

nobody

laughed it turns out I'm not even

remotely funny I not advertise these

things that you told us here I feel like

nobody else knows about this we'll we'll

try a little advertising and see how it

goes congratulations man you have done

so much people love you people look up

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