fitting that the first big air disaster after years of loud, insistent warnings that understaffing would cause exactly this outcome, happens at the airport named after the guy who crushed the ATC union - ThreadSky

mattdpearce.com • 23 days ago

fitting that the first big air disaster after years of loud, insistent warnings that understaffing would cause exactly this outcome, happens at the airport named after the guy who crushed the ATC union

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NYT reports an air traffic controller’s seat was empty at DCA last night www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

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bixlee.bsky.social•23 days ago

i wish ronald reagan would come back to life so he could die again

lhalljd.bsky.social•23 days ago

NYT has been hand in glove with the administration folks in the recent past. Let’s not perpetuate what could be a whitewash.

cdpositive.bsky.social•23 days ago

Humans can't be perfect but d***, we have to strive to be better, not worse!!

leenir.bsky.social•23 days ago

Reagan the union buster

mikewileypdx.bsky.social•23 days ago

Good point.

manmademoon.bsky.social•23 days ago

Maybe if they had less people working at the FAA, we wouldn't have to see this report. (sarcasm)

thelordgod.bsky.social•23 days ago

I see what you did there...

flukestarbucker.bsky.social•23 days ago

That’s what coming next. We won’t get reports of anything wrong and anyone who says so is a traitor and will be sent to the gulag…….not sarcasm.

raymondguiteras.bsky.social•23 days ago

It's National.

National national national.

dbr628.bsky.social•23 days ago

I say this every time, and it drives some acquaintances of mine who are Reagan acolytes, insane. And so I continue.

raymondguiteras.bsky.social•23 days ago

I may be wishmembering but wasn't there a long period when pilots and flight attendants refused to say the altered name in solidarity with ATC?

maimysantiago99.bsky.social•23 days ago

point of fact: NATCA is the union now, since 1986

mrbush.bsky.social•23 days ago

Just checked 87.

mrbush.bsky.social•23 days ago

Think it was 89.

jimmy-jim-james.bsky.social•23 days ago

I think it is fair to say that Musk and Trump killed the young figure skaters.

A very complex system of system failed
because Trump and DODGE introduce
intentional chaos into multiple systems inside the big systems.

Trump attacking the FAA and DOD broke the DC Air Corridor.

wrambbit.bsky.social•20 days ago

Elon Musk posted on X in January 2024, regarding aviation hiring, "It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-airplane-crashing-dei/

notesonthewayout.bsky.social•23 days ago

In the age of cruel and senseless irony, checks out

16341main.bsky.social•23 days ago

Amen.

rickwoollams.bsky.social•23 days ago

Staffing issues aside, the accident wasn’t the controller’s fault. There could have been six more controllers in that tower and this accident still happens.

sierraiola.bsky.social•22 days ago

According to this article, the traffic controllers contacted the blackhawk twice and twice the pilots confirmed the instructions.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tammy-duckworth-american-airlines-crash/

rickwoollams.bsky.social•21 days ago

Exactly.

swmseattle.bsky.social•23 days ago

The FAA? Where they just offered deferred resignations?

mscarolefleck.bsky.social•23 days ago

Wow

dccassandra.bsky.social•23 days ago

Literally have been thinking this all day. Like well it is”Reagan” National airport 🙄🙄🙄

coste1costello.bsky.social•23 days ago

askgma.bsky.social•23 days ago

A helluva learning moment.

marcmagus.bsky.social•23 days ago

Someone named National crushed the union?

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annehamburg.bsky.social•23 days ago

My heart goes out to the assigned air traffic controller. My anger goes to anyone responsible for failing to properly fund the agency and thus put controllers and us in this horrific situation.

zeroisanumber.bsky.social•23 days ago

I mean, before Reagan it was named after Dulles so it's kind of a pick your monster situation.

stevenbfla.bsky.social•23 days ago

Dulles and Reagan are two separate airports.

zeroisanumber.bsky.social•23 days ago

Shhhhhh! I'm not very smart and I don't want people figuring that out.

haroldhg1.bsky.social•23 days ago

Democrats should sponsor a bill to re-name Reagan Airport to "Trump (Killed Them All) Airport."

cdpositive.bsky.social•23 days ago

Nope; not his name. How about "Never Another 34-felon Airport". (NA34FA)

ericleitzen.bsky.social•23 days ago

susubrooks.bsky.social•23 days ago

Not to mention in the first two weeks of this administration.

gregculross.bsky.social•23 days ago

Must have taken the "buy-out?"

jasper33.bsky.social•23 days ago

Can we all please wait for the investigation to play itself out?
JFC, nobody knows shit at this point so it would be nice if all the social media experts just STFU

surrenderpink.bsky.social•23 days ago

mulford.bsky.social•23 days ago

The ghosts of 35x

plesiomorphy.bsky.social•23 days ago

He’s on the Labor Department Hall of Honor (Trump put him there in 2018)

dstamos-jetdriver.bsky.social•23 days ago

But will the GOP congress address the problem with all of their attention on continually trying to name rename Dulles airport after Trump?

https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/01/27/republicans-are-once-again-trying-to-rename-dulles-airport-for-trump/

scohoe.bsky.social•23 days ago

years to the point it was a plot

larrydavid25.bsky.social•23 days ago

wasnt reagan the head of the actors union in hollywood at one time?
what an absolute pos that man was

unfrozencaveman9.bsky.social•23 days ago

It is still and forever National

joeff53.bsky.social•23 days ago

This is the Dems Laken Riley if they’d only choose to use it.

rmwhittaker.bsky.social•23 days ago

I remember how livid everyone in DC and the Virginia suburbs was about the change - not least that they ended up footing the bill for all the new signposts.

fernsmail.bsky.social•23 days ago

I have been saying this for years into I guess…a void? 😞

dayv.wtf•23 days ago

Not to mention the fact that National Airport was renamed after Reagan by an act of Congress that exceeded federal authority, and the name change was only recognized on WMATA (Metro) service maps years later, after Congress threatened to withhold federal funding for published transit.

dayv.wtf•23 days ago

*public* transit, obviously

My kingdom for an edit button

dayv.wtf•23 days ago

A great shibboleth to see if someone is truly "from" DC is whether they refer to it as National or as Reagan.

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