Passenger jet collides with helicopter while landing at Reagan Washington National Airport, FAA says
Passenger jet collides with helicopter while landing at Reagan Washington National Airport, FAA says
A passenger jet has collided with a helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.
A passenger jet has collided with a helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.
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Odds that this has anything to do with the government falling apart?
ATC are fed employees, this happened at the worst-named airport in DC ....
Possible but probably not. ATC have been understaffed and overworked for years and this is the inevitable result.
Combine that with a military that has historically always done whatever the fuck it... err, support the troops and thank you for your service. Can I have my salmon tossed under the broiler please?
But yeah. This is less a consequence of trump and more a consequence of our fundamentally broken culture and government that predates him.
I'mma let you in on a secret:
The CEO doesn't do shit. ANYWHERE.
This is going to have very big ramifications even medium term. But the work culture and lack of personnel were already a major problem long before... last week. At most, trump accelerated this.
Now, the horrific response to this is all fuckface.
As an aside: it is REALLY obnoxious to post two giant images as a reply.
Literally impossible for this to result in that crash
I know we want to associate everything bad with the new admin but this was just regular old american calpitalist incompetence
They even just removed it from their website.
We then find out the real reason for the crash is empty seats https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/business/air-traffic-control-staffing-plane-crash.html
How many air traffic controllers recieved Elon's buyout email?
Please stop already concluding what the cause was. It's been little over 24 hours, the bodies are barely cold.
Real actual aircrash investigations take weeks, months, sometimes years. I know that this particular one likely won't get any investigation at all, but can we please stop doing the exact same thing as trump (only in our case slightly based on facts)? You're probably right, but still, it bugs me that everyone already has their scape goat ready.
Airplane safety has always been written in blood, the last thing we need is starting to write them with plain ink, causing us to add many, many more chapters
I feel pretty comfortable pointing to an airplane accident and then pointing to the eviscerated airline safety management and hiring freezes on ATCs, especially since my silence would result in the only culprit people hearing about being 'DEI' from conservatives.
If we do not fill the information space with the most likely truth, than they will fill it with their bullshit - and that bullshit will become the dominant narrative.
Welcome to 2025
One is obviously Bullshit, the other is less obvious, but still bullshit.
The REAL reason will be what the investigation concludes. Likely it will have something to do with ATC, but likely there will be a slew of contributing factors, as there pretty much always is with airplane crashes.
Either way, you are assuming, and in this case also pretending to know more than everyone else.
Wait for the conclusion of the investigation, then we'll talk
My friend is an ATC and I saw him last week. From my conversations with him they haven't been hit with Trump shenanigans...yet