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Data Request For Potomac River Tragedy - National Centers For Environmental Information (NCEI), NOAA In The News
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ncei.noaa.gov/ <-- shared NCEI home page
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“A CNN Reporter requested data to portray the depth of the Potomac River near the site of the tragic plane and helicopter crash. The Digital Elevation Model Bathymetry (DEM) Team responded with information on how to use NCEI’s high-resolution Continuously Updated Digital Elevation Models (CUDEMs) to generate a map of the Potomac River and provided an example map…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #bathymetry #topobathy #DEM #elevation #depth #NCEI #opendata #CUDEM #disaster #collision #air #potomacriver #potomac #crash #airdisaster #Washington #helicopter #ArmyHelicopter #blackhawk #NOAA #aviation #midair
@NOAA @NCEI

I'm contemplating a bike tour between Washington DC and Pittsburgh along the GAP and C&O canal towpath. It's 333 miles total and virtually all trail. There is Amtrak bike service along the route, meaning I could bike one way and take the train back. Lots of variables up in the air now so just curious if anyone out there has done this ride or has tips.

Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who is the pilot who safely landed a full passenger plane in the Hudson River in #NewYork City, has a 3-word response to the un-Presidential response of #DonaldTheDeplorable to the mid-air collision of an #Army helicopter and #American Airlines plane above the #Potomac River, that had no survivors: “Not surprised. Disgusted.”

huffpost.com/entry/miracle-hud

HuffPost · 'Miracle On The Hudson' Pilot Has Just 3 Words For Trump's DC Crash ResponseBy Ben Blanchet
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Why Didn't Technology Prevent The Deadly Air Collision Over Washington?
31 January 2025
Chrystal Zhang, The Conversation
"TCAS is an aircraft safety system that monitors the airspace around a plane for other aircraft equipped with transponders. These are devices that listen for and respond to incoming electronic signals… #TCAS has limitations… inhibited at altitudes below roughly 300 metres."
sciencealert.com/why-didnt-tec
#Flight5342 #AA5342 #Potomac

ScienceAlert · Why Didn't Technology Prevent The Deadly Air Collision Over Washington?On Wednesday night US time, a passenger jet and US Army helicopter collided at a low altitude near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and crashed into the Potomac River.

Remembering the figure skaters who died in the plane crash over the #Potomac. It's not the first time that a generation of American figure skaters and coaches were lost.
#AmericanAirlines #AA5342

“The Most Somber Incident in Figure Skating History Has Repeated Itself“ by Patricia Vicary on Medium: medium.com/beyond-the-scoreboa

Beyond the Scoreboard · The Most Somber Incident in Figure Skating History Has Repeated ItselfBy Patricia Vicary