minkintheriver.bsky.social
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Literate children are less likely to vote Republican.
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Left or right?
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"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
The information is available if you ever decide to learn more. I'd suggest a FAR/AIM book and a look at ntsb stats. There might be a time to panic if Trump cuts controllers
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You're actively fighting to stay ignorant
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I believe they would've said that. What's your problem?
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It happened it Canada. ATC and FAA do not exist there. No amount of maintenance will make the landing gear take more force than it was designed to.
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I'm telling you it isn't classified as an accident and then agreeing with you, and you feel the need to insult me for knowing that? I already am
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It all makes sense to everyone except me? Maybe because I knew where to look for what actually happened?
There have been more that aren't reported on. You're hearing about them because they're getting a lot of views now
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The fact is there hasn't been a sudden increase in accidents. Common sense says it's being sensationalized by the media. I'm not saying our system is perfect and Trump will definitely make it worse if he goes through with planned cuts. Still not warrent your original comm.
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The missing door bolts didn't cause damage over $25k, death, serious injury, or affect the structural strength or flight characteristics and isn't in the list of events that would constitute a serious incident, so it's classified as a non-serious incident. ATC def overworked, doing job of two
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I can narrow it down to fatal accidents of passenger planes if you want. Missing door bolts would be classified as a non-serious incident, the helicopter collision was the fault of the helicopter pilot, and I agree with everything else you said
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I'm afraid I don't really understand what you're asking
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A commercial license, instrument rating, and 530 hours of flight time. I'm a little under 1,000 off from the minimum to get my ATP, but I think it's fair to say I'm more than qualified to speak on this (especially when I came with stats from a government site)
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They absolutely can if you hit the ground with enough force. They're not magic, and some are stronger than others. Again, I agree ATC FAA are understaffed and shouldn't be cut. Can you explain how these accidents relate to ATC at all or how cuts impacted aviation safety before they happened?
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You were a pilot?
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Ah. Elon is a tech illiterate prick, so it's no surprise he has no idea how properly set up a website
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I think I'm missing something here
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Sure. bsky.app/profile/mink...
All I do on this app is shit on Trump and elon. It's not my fault he isn't responsible for this one
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Filtered for fatal only for January 1st to February 19th, 2024, and 2025. I apologize to anyone who has trouble with the screenshot resolution. I wanted it all in one frame.
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I just checked, and it works fine for me. I can get screenshots or a link to a dataset from it if it doesn't work for you. Lmk
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Again, I don't like Trump. I agree that firing vital employees is bad and would make aviation less safe. That, however, has nothing to do with the recent accidents. There have been 11 fatal accidents this year, and there were 21 during the same period last year. Mind telling us what airline?
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If you want to run around screaming over nothing, then you can do that on your own
For everyone interested in actually looking at the data:
www.ntsb.gov/Pages/monthl...
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It's safe. Trump is shit but as of right now, he has nothing to do with these accidents
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Maybe you should look at past ntsb data before saying stuff like this
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Please stop fearmongering
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Wow, it's so crazy that the president is accused of conspiring with Russia is running a Russian-sympathizing administration
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These people are idiots. Social Security knows when you die and stops payments before your body is even cold. That’s why physicians sign death certificates.
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That's already a thing
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It's very easy to hit the ground with CRJ900 wings. I wouldn't have expected it to break off how it did, but it obviously happened. My guess is it got caught on something or dug into the ground.
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Main*
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After a landing gear was broken and the wing was slammed into the ground with the force of that drop and the landing?
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As much as it pains me to say, NONE of these are the fault of the new administration. Please don't fearmonger, especially when you don't actually know anything about what you're saying.
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The CRJ that flipped in Canada still had nothing to do with controllers, and even if it did, they were not American controllers. It was an extremely hard landing that broke the right landing gear.
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The accident (>$25,000) A380 and CRJ900 isn't particularly rare. The exact same thing happened with another A380 last year. The plane is simply massive.
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The pilot of the helicopter that crashed in DC identified the wrong plane after being told about it by ATC. In the case of the Learjet, the patient's oxygen exploded; it had absolutely nothing to do with the plane.