Aviation Crashes and other FAA News

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Well Trump and his cronies have turned this into a conspiracy/blame discussion anyway. I am putting Trump clips in the blame thread but not sure whether it even makes sense.
 
What are the odds the air traffic controller is a white dude with 20 years of experience and the helicopter pilot was white versus them being minorities?
 
I wish. He's been in office 11 days and 30 minutes and that already seems like a month.
More disastrous things have happened in the last 11 days and 30 minutes than in the four years of Biden's presidency. Any MAGAs want to point to American airliners blown out of the sky by Army helicopters while Biden was in control?
 
💔 I just can’t even imagine. I am sure this will hit your wife hard….be there for her.
The 1st officer on her Delta flight last night used to work for the regional carrier PSA that worked the American Airlines flight. He knew one of the flight attendants on the flight. And her long time friend recently flew with the crew that was on board last night.

My wife actually flew flight 175 all the time as a normal trip out of Boston that crashed on 911 so this is really hitting home for her. She knew the crew on that flight and she is still dealing with emotions from that. She is just now able to look out the window during aircraft banking because she associates it with planes banking into the twin towers.
 
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Why are we even debating this? I'd say the mid-air explosion and subseqeunt crash on the earth's surface had a bit more effect than the apparent water temperature at the crash site. Seriously...
It was an idle point, not a debate. What else was there to say at the time?
 
Why are we even debating this? I'd say the mid-air explosion and subseqeunt crash on the earth's surface had a bit more effect than the apparent water temperature at the crash site. Seriously...
Agreed. Humans rarely survive a fall off the Golden Gate Bridge, which starts at a speed of 0 MPH. A plane falling straight down into the water at a speed of 150 mph is going to kill whoever survived the initial crash. The water temp isn't going to make a meaningful difference.
 
From The NY Times:
Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision that was reviewed by The New York Times.

The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.

This increases the workload for the air traffic controller and can complicate the job. One reason is that the controllers can use different radio frequencies to communicate with pilots flying planes and pilots flying helicopters. While the controller is communicating with pilots of the helicopter and the jet, the two sets of pilots may not be able to hear each other.

Like most of the country’s air traffic control facilities, the tower at Reagan airport has been understaffed for years. The tower there was nearly a third below targeted staff levels, with 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023, according to the most recent Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan, an annual report to Congress that contains target and actual staffing levels. The targets set by the F.A.A. and the controllers’ union call for 30.

The shortage — caused by years of employee turnover and tight budgets, among other factors — has forced many controllers to work up to six days a week and 10 hours a day.

The F.A.A. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 
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