Can't wait to see the reporting on how fucked up their air traffic control system is from Trump's cuts.

ATC mistake causes collision killing two pilots and injuring a dozen more.

WAY TO GO DOGE.

The controller was working both Tower and Ground frequencies at the time of the collision. At a busy airport like LaGuardia, that's incredibly unsafe, IMO. Something grabbing his attention on Ground distracted him from this developing situation on his Tower responsibilities, and that's all it took. He tried to then stop it, but it was too late.

He's going to live with what happened for the rest of his life. I feel deeply sad for him. It's not even really his fault. He was put in a situation where any human is likely to fail sooner or later.

The US's air infrastructure (along with a lot of other infrastructure) has been going downhill since the Reagan administration. The US needs a 2-3x investment in the FAA 10 years or so ago.

I haven't travelled to the US since Feb 2020, and I'm not going to (even for work) for multiple reasons at this point: the continued deterioration of the FAA's systems is one major one.

These preventable deaths are a direct result of Trump's decisions. Trump, this one man, is responsible for so many fucking innocent deaths, he should be pulled out of a burning white house and killed by public hanging along with every single person of his administration and every republican and democrat that enabled him.

Expect more situations like this to happen as the ruling class continues to cut corners in order to maintain its profits and standard of living.

The only solution going forward is revolution.

I can avoid travelling to the US or other states that want to kill me actively or by negligence.

At what point do pilots and other people who go there because it's their job, stop going there I wonder.

They don’t have to pay the TSA agents if the airport is closed!

taps head meme

Thank you doge /s

I wonder how much before they deem USA too unsafe to operate in.

The chief engineer who runs the airports in the NYC area has publicly stated that air operations aren't under his purview for CYA reasons.

“After” seems like the wrong preposition in the headline. Feels like “killed in” or “died after” would be less confusing. Anyway, sad for the people involved.