My brother works for the FAA. It’s been fucked for a while now and Trump isn’t gonna make it better. They are dangerously understaffed.
That being said, yeah this wasn’t Trump’s or the FAA’s fault. The helicopter pilot was told to maintain visual separation with the landing plane and then didn’t do so.
I heard on NPR this morning that the ATC said “do you see the plane” without specifying which plane. There was another larger plane taking off at the same time. So could be partly ATC’s fault.
That being said nothing like this happens without multiple failures by multiple people.
Yeah I feel like it’s not really fair on the victims or the victims families to blame any one person at all. It’s a tragedy for sure but it’s not like anybody fucked up on purpose. It doesn’t really help to lay blame on an individual, just figure out where the mistakes happened and amend the procedures so it hopefully doesn’t happen again.
My brother works for the FAA. It’s been fucked for a while now and Trump isn’t gonna make it better. They are dangerously understaffed.
That being said, yeah this wasn’t Trump’s or the FAA’s fault. The helicopter pilot was told to maintain visual separation with the landing plane and then didn’t do so.
I heard on NPR this morning that the ATC said “do you see the plane” without specifying which plane. There was another larger plane taking off at the same time. So could be partly ATC’s fault.
That being said nothing like this happens without multiple failures by multiple people.
Yeah I feel like it’s not really fair on the victims or the victims families to blame any one person at all. It’s a tragedy for sure but it’s not like anybody fucked up on purpose. It doesn’t really help to lay blame on an individual, just figure out where the mistakes happened and amend the procedures so it hopefully doesn’t happen again.
Black Box Down is a good podcast to hear a bunch of incidents similar with communication being a huge issue in most of them
Do they have an episode on Flight 800? I’d be really interested to hear that.
Did they also receive the federal employee “buy out” email yesterday morning? I’d imagine that would induce a lot of unnecessary added stress.