The air traffic system meltdown at Newark Liberty International Airport last week “was the most dangerous situation you could have,” according to an air traffic controller on duty that day, as the fallout from the outage stretches into a second week. - ThreadSky

cnn.com • 52 days ago

The air traffic system meltdown at Newark Liberty International Airport last week “was the most dangerous situation you could have,” according to an air traffic controller on duty that day, as the fallout from the outage stretches into a second week.

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reneecynthia.bsky.social•52 days ago

So many endangered

gooseman75.bsky.social•51 days ago

Where is the "Real World" boy?

the-wise-teen.bsky.social•51 days ago

Probably because most of the air traffic controllers fired by Elon's wanker looking geeks, more workload are on the few remained air traffic controllers and they cannot cope with it!

marvintheandriod.bsky.social•52 days ago

Trump did that

danmarich.bsky.social•52 days ago

It could have been worse if happened at a busy airspace area of the country. Oh, wait.

david-kidd.bsky.social•52 days ago

The current Transportation Secretary may not be the best choice, and recent precipitate actions may have contributed, but this crisis is the result of years, not weeks, of neglect

trueoak.bsky.social•51 days ago

Yes years of neglect but now the already hobbled system has been intentionally crippled to the point of collapse.

denverdayv.bsky.social•50 days ago

Thanks Joe Biden.

michelchartrand.bsky.social•52 days ago

Just a coincidence it's all falling apart now, right? After all the cuts and whatnot?

denverdayv.bsky.social•50 days ago

Media doesn’t cover the facts when Dems are in control. That’s why Trump calls them the fake news.

pflagler.bsky.social•51 days ago

Thank God Jake Tapper was there for a pointless and flaccid interview with the Secretary of Transportation. CNN you really are the worst.

jmdeutsch.bsky.social•52 days ago

Don’t worry!

I have it on good authority that the planes that stay up are Trump planes and the planes that fall down are Biden planes!

Much easier than regular air traffic control! I don’t know why everyone doesn’t do this job!

duboisstanaccount.bsky.social•52 days ago

Whelp

trueoak.bsky.social•51 days ago

Certainly glad we aren’t doing our annual trip to the States this year. Won’t be for at least 3 more years and maybe longer depending on how long the residual damage takes to fix.

charlene411.bsky.social•52 days ago

oatsdad.bsky.social•52 days ago

Of course, Duffy and his goons will blame Biden.

If that's accurate, why did none of these issues happen until Trump took office? 🤔

challenger-grey.bsky.social•52 days ago

Didn't the difficulties happen under Trump 1.0 and they swept it under the rug?

It's obvious they broke it to privatize it. Capitalist Greed.

socaltrav.bsky.social•52 days ago

20 ATC quit at EWR and others have taken a psychological leave of absence. We need @petebuttigieg.bsky.social back!

jmussi.bsky.social•52 days ago

Incredible how so many things broke so quickly. It is almost like someone is sabotaging the system so they can sell the FAA a new one

naturisthippy.bsky.social•51 days ago

Shortages of qualified personnel

Anything to do with Muskrats Starlink?

hoppy172.bsky.social•51 days ago

Good thing Doge cut the maintenance workers who were to maintain the equipment that failed.

coolxenu.bsky.social•52 days ago

Land of the free to die in a preventable plane crash.

Do you Americans ever get tired of being suckers?

steampunk62.bsky.social•52 days ago

Dang shame and who would want to work in that pressure cooker especially now?

alanjakotay.bsky.social•52 days ago

Looks like we need more people fired at the FAA. A few hundred air traffic controllers should do nicely...

denverdayv.bsky.social•50 days ago

More incompetent ones, absolutely.

thepointbeing.bsky.social•52 days ago

Oh fucking bullshit CNN Ive seen zero fallout life goes on for those FUCKING goons

thegreentravel.bsky.social•52 days ago

It's alarming to think about how close we came to a serious incident. Systems like these need urgent updates to prevent such chaos. Let's hope lessons are learned to enhance safety for everyone flying.