Politicizing Tragedies Is One of the Best Ways to Stop Them from Happening Again

Politicizing Tragedies Is One of the Best Ways to Stop Them from Happening Again

Last night, a passenger plane collided with a Blackhawk helicopter over the Potomac River, killing all 64 people on board, many of them champion figure skaters coming from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita on Sunday. Three service-members on the helicopter were killed too. This was an entirely preventable tragedy as a breakdown in procedure was likely behind it, as Guy Gratton, an associate professor of aviation and the environmen…