I don’t understand why the story doesn’t lead with the fact that a single person, irrespective of whether they were cleared and assigned to fly that helicopter or not was able to successfully take off without anybody else knowing or having to facilitate it materially in order for that single person to again actually take off in a military helicopter?
Either they are concealing a more complicated story they don’t want to tell or this is a blatant admission of a security lapse that should immediately be remedied with serious consequences for the people who were in charge at the time howsoever a judicial entity determines that according to functioning legal system not a series of secret “courts”.
Do you want military helicopters in your country accessible by one person who could lift off in it and do something rash if they had a really really bad day?
I mean makes sense right? So why isn’t the article asking those questions? If I was a reporter I would be repeatedly asking why this was even possible, it should always take two seperate people at least to get a military helicopter in the air for this precise reason!.
Anybody who values democracy should be wary of the way laws that exist outside military bases become blurry, obscured and maybe perhaps forgotten within the walls of the military base.
I mean, Fort Bragg is an obvious example if you want examples…
I don’t understand why the story doesn’t lead with the fact that a single person, irrespective of whether they were cleared and assigned to fly that helicopter or not was able to successfully take off without anybody else knowing or having to facilitate it materially in order for that single person to again actually take off in a military helicopter?
Either they are concealing a more complicated story they don’t want to tell or this is a blatant admission of a security lapse that should immediately be remedied with serious consequences for the people who were in charge at the time howsoever a judicial entity determines that according to functioning legal system not a series of secret “courts”.
Do you want military helicopters in your country accessible by one person who could lift off in it and do something rash if they had a really really bad day?
I mean makes sense right? So why isn’t the article asking those questions? If I was a reporter I would be repeatedly asking why this was even possible, it should always take two seperate people at least to get a military helicopter in the air for this precise reason!.
Anybody who values democracy should be wary of the way laws that exist outside military bases become blurry, obscured and maybe perhaps forgotten within the walls of the military base.
I mean, Fort Bragg is an obvious example if you want examples…
Sooo if the Co-pilot is killed or incapacitated, everyone who would otherwise fly away to safety would die because….?
There’s a reason that almost every aircraft in the world can be flown by a single person.
I didn’t say anything about needing two people to fly it, that is a seperate consideration.