originalucifer to News • 1 day agoPassenger jet collides with helicopter while landing at Reagan Washington National Airport, FAA saysapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1314arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1311arrow-down1external-linkPassenger jet collides with helicopter while landing at Reagan Washington National Airport, FAA saysapnews.comoriginalucifer to News • 1 day agomessage-square65fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
A passenger jet has collided with a helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•1 day agoPlanes scare the fuck out of me these days what the shit is going on up there?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish27•1 day agoStill safer than car travel per passenger mile, by quite a large margin
minus-square@Frozengyrolink8•1 day agoYea this was the first crash since 2009 I believe. At least in the US. Still not okay, but we’ve been doing well/also been pretty lucky a few times.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•1 day agoAviation infrastructure has been strained to the breaking point since Covid. ATC, ramps, pilots, crew, everyone in the chain except the executives. Aviation is designed so that one minor mistake does not snowball into an incident or accident. When capitalism stretches those constraints, you start stacking small issues and now you have a very big one. Welcome to the collapse of empire.
Planes scare the fuck out of me these days what the shit is going on up there?
Still safer than car travel per passenger mile, by quite a large margin
Yea this was the first crash since 2009 I believe. At least in the US. Still not okay, but we’ve been doing well/also been pretty lucky a few times.
Aviation infrastructure has been strained to the breaking point since Covid. ATC, ramps, pilots, crew, everyone in the chain except the executives.
Aviation is designed so that one minor mistake does not snowball into an incident or accident.
When capitalism stretches those constraints, you start stacking small issues and now you have a very big one.
Welcome to the collapse of empire.
First fatal commercial crash*
Yes, thank you.