Summary
Trump is firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees despite recent fatal air crashes, CNN reports.
The AFL-CIO says terminations were issued Friday, with affected staff possibly locked out of FAA facilities after Monday.
Aviation safety union PASS calls the cuts “dangerous,” especially after four deadly incidents in the past month.
Critics argue these moves risk public safety amid ongoing air traffic controller shortages.
Four deadly crashes and it hasn’t even been a fucking month yet.
Interesting to be cutting oversight during a time when Boeing was having so much trouble with its planes.
I mean did you see what oversight did to share prices?
Oversight didn’t do that; fucking up the manufacturing did that.
Yes, in reality. But in oligarchy fantasy land, it’s regulations that get in the way profits.
I mean, regulations do get in the way of profits. It’s just that the profitable behaviors being outlawed by regulation are the ones that create harmful externalities, and it’s only in oligarchy fantasy land that they’re entitled to cause others harm for their own benefit.
- Number of workers does not guarantee the quality of their work
- If there were more accidents, it actually is logical to fire some of the personell
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Yes, no one will easily solve this
They tested the drones (NJ, UK)… They promoted flight crashes to ease into projecting a new fear… Now they will replace ATC with AI and utilize their drones on a mass scale.
For surveillance?
and now a plane lands inverted - has me thinking about trains!
Basically, it would be safer to fly over Ukraine and fucking Russia. An over worked and stressed ATC is higher risk than a bunch of drunk Russian bastards manning a SAM battery.
No room in his senile agenda for any variables
And yet another plane incident today…
Great idea
Confirmed - American aviation is now unsafe. American trains are now unregulated and their safety compromised. I guess it is time to find pleasure in the little things in my home city again.
Can’t even make the trains run on time.
That’s what the hyperloop is gonna solve, obviously
Back to the all time American classic, the automobile. It’s both what made America great and awful all in one useful machine.
With Teslas autonomously crashing into everything?
Four deadly crashes so far
I have heard of the Plane and Helicopter over Washington DC, killing some 70 or so people and another one with a small plane, killing 6 or so. Which other two have i been missing?
The move comes less than three weeks after a U.S. Army helicopter collided with a passenger jet that was about to land in Washington, D.C., killing 67, and an air ambulance crashed in Philadelphia, killing seven. Ten people died when a regional flight in Alaska went missing and was found crashed, earlier this month. Days later one person died in Scottsdale, Arizona, when a plane veered off the runway and collided with a parked aircraft.
How many are there usually?
Commercial crashes? 0 is the normal number. But generally aviation crashes are much less rare, sadly. They happen.
Yeah, okay. I was unsure if it’s just that it’s not reported as much usually and being focused on because of the faa thing.
Yup, kinda like train derailments. Most of them aren’t huge, so you don’t hear about them, but they happen a lot.
And it’s only been a month.
And that month is February
And I’ve barely heard about the other three. It took us barely any time to treat plane crashes as we treat mass shootings.
It’s not that uncommon for smaller or private planes to crash, I think partially due to private pilots not having as much training and experience as commercial pilots, and the fact that smaller planes probably aren’t as stable in turbulent weather. Pretty sure the one in Alaska had more to do with the weather than traffic controllers. We tend to only hear about the small crashes when they have famous people on board.
Blyat!
How to artificially impose a curfew by making people too afraid to fly. Is this what happens when you get King Musk mad about getting his flights publicly tracked? Gonna bet so, the guy is bitter and corrupt enough the he would want to replace the entire aviation system with one that won’t track him regardless of how many deaths it would mean.
You think “the government is intentionally crashing planes” is more likely than “the slow but inevitable collapse of a system pushed past capacity since Reagan fired the workers pushing for better pay and reasonable hours?”
Yes, nothing exceptional about Trump, all “slow but inevitable”. It’s all the government’s fault, don’t look at the rich oligarch that owns a personality cult creating social network behind the curtains…
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