Summary
Trump is firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees despite recent fatal air crashes, CNN reports.
The AFL-CIO says terminations were issued Friday, with affected staff possibly locked out of FAA facilities after Monday.
Aviation safety union PASS calls the cuts “dangerous,” especially after four deadly incidents in the past month.
Critics argue these moves risk public safety amid ongoing air traffic controller shortages.
Also, the one in DC really sounds like a fuckup by the helicopter crew. The ATC warned the helicopter crew about the incoming plane twice and the helicopter crew indicated both times they saw the plane and were maintaining visual separation (watching the plane and keeping their distance).
Don’t be that person, the one who oversimplifies an accident into a single issue instead of a chain of events - the circling maneuver, the NVG training, the other plane on approach further out, the discrepancy in altimeter readings between PiC/PM in the Blackhawk, stepped-on comms, the list of things that could easily contribute is already an arm’s length long.
Edit: you know what would be great? If the FAA had the resources necessary to implement NTSB’s recommendation backlog. Do you feel firing lots of FAA staff helps us or hurts us on that front?
I’m not saying Trump or what he’s doing aren’t terrible.
But he had zero impact on the DC crash, and every time we blame something on him that isn’t his fault the Republicans will grasp onto that and say we’d blame him for water being wet.
Just so we are good, I was being rhetorical in my questions, not targeting them at you.
But also I think I am coming around to the GOP approach: who cares if it’s perfectly true when it is essentially true?
Because the honest truth is there’s a double-standard. When they lie it’s no big deal. When we get out of line even the smallest amount the right-wing media machines will run with it for YEARS.