Within the span of 90 minutes on Tuesday morning, two airplanes, at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport and at Chicago’s Midway International Airport, were forced to abort landings to avoid collisions, federal aviation officials said.
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Cause 3,000 ATCers short, and at 90 percent of the facilities. That is such a particular job, and very hard to get and harder to do. They are paid well because the amount of work they perform daily is amazing.
That whole " let's tear down their ivory towers " ( traffic control ) PLAN isn't working out as expected.
Soon.
Very soon they will have no choice to revert back to PRE TRUMP safety standards. As soon as a HUGE JET goes down,
MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS will complain.
the incident at midway happened because the pilot of the small jet is a fucking idiot.
he didn't comprehend the very CLEAR directions given him,
he repeated them back to the ATC wrong
was CORRECTED by ATC
and was told TWICE to HOLD AT RUNWAY
still he continued.
Hey NYT! 👋🏻 Why are you reporting the news now? Don’t you have some choice articles about Biden being too old or odes to our Dear Glorious Leader to publish instead?
Each plane costs how much? And the payout to all victims? Plus whatever costs for cleanup? Why is the airline industry and all their attorneys not demanding restoration and protection for the FAA?
It doesn’t matter how much someone yells if they won’t listen. Until red/rural America wakes the fuck up and realizes these policies are hurting them too, nothing changes. They’re indoctrinated to believe it’s Biden, brown people, DEI, or space lasers. They can’t see the forest through those trees.
oh FFS if they would focus on the local impact of the decisions being made by trump and musk it would absolutely break through. it’s already breaking through in fact. the dems job is to drive the conversation.
There may not be another election. And I hope you’re right and it’s starting to break through. Small towns have a tendency to make a pariah out of anyone who thinks differently. I still believe they’re driving a conversation in which the wrong people are listening. We already see the forest.
Someone suggested pilots, flight crew etc do a walk out until things are safe.
That would bring the point home.
I fear it’s the only way we’ll be safe again in the air
Musk and the conmen breaking things so they can “fix” them. Who would be willing to fly in the US with these arbitrary people at the helm? They are unserious and irresponsible
Are people really going to travel to the US anymore? The food will be unregulated, they’ll have insane viral outbreaks like
Measles and perhaps Polio, the president is a Nazi and there are daily plane crashes because of mass firings. Plus so much more. So long USA 👋
You think it’s possibly because every single air traffic controller were told they were in danger of losing their jobs several times this weekend fo no reason at all except that a billionaire who has no role in the government but wants to replace them with software and starlink? Yeah stressed out.
Ignored is my guess. Important people on a private jet can afford a fine and apologize later if they have to. gasp! look at me stereotyping and prejudging like some kind of classist. It’s late. Also, has everyone read The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey? Asking for a friend.
In just 90 minutes, two planes at two airports were forced to abort their landings to avoid a collision. How can aviation safety frequently face such a crisis?
Remember how the government just worked under Biden/Harris.l? We didn't have chaos and crisis every damn day. It’s barely been 8 weeks. Aren't you sick of this deadly incompetence? Let your representatives know that Trump/Musk have to be stopped. Follow @5calls.org and call your reps today.
I mean, it’s almost as if the outright destruction of our nation causes stress & people are FUCKING CRACKING. Fuck Musk, fuck Trump, fuck the ENTIRE GOP. They will be held accountable.
@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social you tweet pithy nonsense and go on book tours while the American people watch our safety systems collapse in front of our eyes. History will judge you accordingly.
If only the @nytimes.com hadn’t spent the last 2 years lying for, sane washing, gaslighting, and lying to protect and promote Trump we might not be under Fourth Reich fascist rule.
What the ever living fuck is going on??? Is it just hyper reporting on flight travel lately??? Like does this happen all the time and we’re just not aware because no one cared about it before?
But don't worry: with the new tax cuts, more of the very BEST people will be able to buy their own fleets of private jets, so no one important will suffer FAA budget and staff cuts!
Things are so bad around National that now when Marine One has Trump on board they clear all of the traffic away from National. BUT when it is just the common folks in the airplanes that confusion is safe.
This Republican Trump Administration hasn’t got a clue how to run an effective and efficient government, and it shows! Be scared, be very scared, scared enough to call your Senators and complain often.
No harm in trying. Even if they appear to be tone-deaf, some are asking the Trump Administration to “have a heart”. This means that the complaining is worrying them about what matters to them, staying in power. Keep complaining, with emphasis and often!
A week ago I would have agreed with you. But seeing how GOP Congresscritters are starting to change their tunes after catching flack from constituents has changed my mind.
Airbus was right with their giant plane. More people per flight, less planes to watch, less flights, less risk of this happening in an already congested airspace full of private jets.
Im staying on the ground. Unfortunately, I live three miles away from the airport and fear there might be a collision that would affect thousands of residents and people on flights.
But wait until Elon starts deploying the Tesla autopilot system at the FAA…this is very scary. Anyone see and/or hear from our new Transportation Secretary? Seems like that’s going well. 🤦🏻♂️
What-the-actual-f is going on? The friendly skies aren’t so friendly anymore. Maybe if we eliminate all the highly skilled federal workers and regulators, it will get better?!?!
Five weeks in office and everything wrong blamed on President Trump.
Let us honestly look at the past four years on not putting the best skilled and qualified,but instead filling a agenda, on checked boxes and quotas that caused the issues.
1. Had to perform an emergency Go - Around.
2. Had NOTAM changed because it made some short dicker fuzzy in the junk.
3. Had to duct tape an unruly passenger because they thought they could fly the plane.
4. Hit send on my resume looking for skydive pilots.
5. Bought a parachute for emergency exit.
Almost every person, pilots, controllers, technicians, ground crew, mechanics, schedulers, in the National Airspace System are distracted, not to mention emotionally and mentally exhausted. CHAOS AND SAFETY DO NOT MIX. POLITICS AND SAFETY DO NOT MIX. ARROGANCE AND SAFETY DO NOT MIX.
I don’t want to fly now. And I like taking vacations. Thanks, Obama!
The only thing good that could come out of this is Trump and Musk are in the air quite often.
Fingers crossed 🤞🏼
A little satire.
When Obama was in office, that’s all you heard from mouth breathers, when anything negative happened. And they continued to use it when Trump was in office.
My neighbor got cancer, lost his job but was able to get coverage thru ACA. With a lot of help from local state and fed programs he was able to keep his house and, you know, live. He bitched about his copay all the time:
“Thanks Obama”
And kept voting republican because socialism is bad(!)
Nah this ain’t Reagan’s fault. I’d kill for an honorable, patriotic conservative like Reagan right now. Not a fan but he’s 10000000 times better than Trump.
Reagan was every bit as racist as Trump, he was just more charming about it. You don’t kick off a presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi by accident. If he’d had Trumps legislature the EPA and the Dept. of Education would already be gone. He hated the civil service before it was cool.
I get where you're coming from. The difference between Reagan and Trump in my view is simple. I never once doubted Reagan loved his country and wanted to do right by it. I disagreed with every one of his approaches but he would roll in his grave to hear a President siding with a KGB Colonel
Wow. Good reminder. Reagan was literally saved by replacing FAA controllers with military controllers. Given trump attack on the military, it's unlikely this would be a picket line people would cross.
Reagan was neither honourable or patriotic. He was a criminal from the off, making an illegal deal with Iranian ayatollahs to delay the release of 52 American hostages until after the 1980 election in exchange for weapons. We know now he had Alzheimers even before he took office.
Reagan is scum.
Let's take a minute to hear the report and not jump on ATC. It's quite possible that a runway was crossed in error because the pilot was confused or didn't listen to ATC instructions.
I have to assume that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence squad is now controlling all air traffic at Reagan National Airport. I also have to assume that it's no longer safe to fly...for anyone.
The statistics say that air travel is extremely safe, but something changed recently, we're not in Kansas any more, the statistics haven't had time to catch up. Also, after the midair collision, airspace at Reagan National is closed when Trump choppers in and out of the White House.
This is the true story...of seven strangers... picked to live in a house... (work together) and have their lives taped...to find out what happens... when people stop being polite...and start getting real...
Is some famous politician going to die soon?
If I were Zelenskyy I wouldn't go to the US.
Trump/Putin have created the environment for an accident among accidents.
Musk has caused deaths already. No need for any more. Rehire the appropriate amount of staff instead of hiring new people from spacex to openly corrupt the faa.
The media never focused on Biden actually doing his job they were just f’in obsessed with his age. But he had surrounded himself with good people like Pete .
2024 who was POTUS? That was to prepare the land for the Couch Lover. I am sure the farm land is about to be sold off any day, but I’ve been screaming how water has been give to alfalfa for some horses in the Middle East. You people are troglodytes
I think we need to drag answers out of muskrat and his brownshirt hackers about what they put into the FAA and other agency systems. The catastrophic results of reducing the number of air traffic controllers is already apparent. Think about passengers and the people where crash sites will be
Your rag is largely responsible for the deterioration of reason that led to this catastrophic vacuum in leadership. Keeping climate deniers and "sieg heil"-apologists on the payroll. While we're at it, thanks for the Iraq War too, knuckleheads.
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More crashes are coming shortly, all because the musk cabinet.
And he's selling the starlink to the FAA? Corruption much
Dumbest fuckin timeline
Soon.
Very soon they will have no choice to revert back to PRE TRUMP safety standards. As soon as a HUGE JET goes down,
MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS will complain.
he didn't comprehend the very CLEAR directions given him,
he repeated them back to the ATC wrong
was CORRECTED by ATC
and was told TWICE to HOLD AT RUNWAY
still he continued.
this has NOTHING to do with the FAA
😠🖕
That would bring the point home.
I fear it’s the only way we’ll be safe again in the air
Measles and perhaps Polio, the president is a Nazi and there are daily plane crashes because of mass firings. Plus so much more. So long USA 👋
They know how to track his G5?
8 crashes 1 month
Differences?
Trump removed FAA employees
Let's have some real collisions.
Way to go, NYT.
and Musk is dead.
Dance Sean dance !
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Seriously, what did they think would happen when you go after the FAA??
All this is bound to be great for business.
Amazing work boss.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/21/business/airline-safety-close-calls.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Let us honestly look at the past four years on not putting the best skilled and qualified,but instead filling a agenda, on checked boxes and quotas that caused the issues.
2. Had NOTAM changed because it made some short dicker fuzzy in the junk.
3. Had to duct tape an unruly passenger because they thought they could fly the plane.
4. Hit send on my resume looking for skydive pilots.
5. Bought a parachute for emergency exit.
The only thing good that could come out of this is Trump and Musk are in the air quite often.
Fingers crossed 🤞🏼
When Obama was in office, that’s all you heard from mouth breathers, when anything negative happened. And they continued to use it when Trump was in office.
“Thanks Obama”
And kept voting republican because socialism is bad(!)
#Reagan is better than #Trump
As
Mussolini was better
Than Hitler....
But Reagan & Thatcher finance deregulation led to 2008 crash.
Trump doing economic disaster again with #Tariff & Europe mayhem. #inflation... #eggs... #Ukraine... #Putin dogs breakfast...
You need to read up on that.
Yeah, get out.
-AIDS
-contras
-crack
Reagan is scum.
#RESIST
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If I were Zelenskyy I wouldn't go to the US.
Trump/Putin have created the environment for an accident among accidents.
Just curious.
Not
Fly
It’s a crap shoot now.
Trump crash plane
Wreckless endangerment .
GOOD JOB YOU BLATHERING IDIOTS!!!
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We will be seeing planes falling like flies !!