Important context:
- January 20: FAA director fired
- January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
- January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
- January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
- January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Trump killed 67 Americans and it’s still January 2025.
This is an overreach that minimizes the people who are actually impacted by Trump’s actions.
This was the heli pilot’s error, plain and simple. Tower was following protocol and did not grant clearance because they were short on staff or something ridiculous like that.
They were short on staff because of Trump.
This specific tower was not short on staff, and again, ATC doesn’t just start issuing faulty clearances when they’re short staffed.
Use your brain.
New York Times reported that “Staffing Was ‘Not Normal’ at Reagan Airport Tower, According to F.A.A. Report”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/business/air-traffic-control-staffing-plane-crash.html
If you read a little deeper, you’d know that ATC error wasn’t the cause of the crash. The clearance issued was perfectly valid
Individual human failures are often a symptom of broader and larger systemic problems. Pointing out these systemic problems is not over reach.
The last time he killed about 450.000 so, today is still below average.
You’re assuming that the plane crash is a full count. I’d be really surprised if some of the other things he’s done this week (eg: limiting access to reimbursement for health care) haven’t killed people.
I can summarize it:
Plane going in one direction Helicopter going in a different direction
Plane and Helicopter cross paths.
3d trajectories. Heli was 100ft higher than it was cleared to be.
Even though this was the FIRST Mid Air Collision since 2008 and it happened AFTER gutting Federal Aviation Workers it’s OBVIOUSLY BIDEN AND OBAMAS FAULT!
