Retired Jumbo Jet Pilot Weighs In on Reagan Airport Collision

On a recent Price of Business show, Host Kevin Price visited with Chad Koppie, a retired jumbo jet captain with over 35 years of experience flying out of some of America’s busiest airports. Koppie believes the tragic mid-air collision between a military Blackhawk helicopter and a commercial airliner was, above all else, an accident and expressed concerns over the rush to judgement on both the political Right (blame “DEI policies”) and on the Left (the fact the FAA had no current Administrator due “to Trump”). Having flown countless flights out of major hubs like Chicago’s O’Hare, New York’s JFK, and Washington D.C.’s Reagan National, Koppie understands the complexities of air traffic management and the challenges pilots face in high-density airspace.

“This system is not perfect,” Koppie states. “Air travel is one of the safest modes of transportation, but that doesn’t mean errors can’t happen. One second, everything is fine, and the next second can be disastrous and instantaneous.”

Kevin Price said after the interview, “while most networks seem interested in interviewing politicians that have never sat in a cockpit, we are glad to have an actual authority like Koppie to provide real world insights.”