Summary

Days before the fatal mid-air collision near Washington, D.C., Donald Trump eliminated the membership of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, a key aviation safety panel.

The committee, established after the 1988 PanAm Flight 103 bombing, had advised on air travel security but was left without members following Trump’s move.

The crash, involving an American Eagle jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter, left no survivors.

Critics question whether Trump’s decision weakened aviation oversight and potentially contributed to the tragedy.

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  • @Xanthobilly
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    1 month ago

    This is just like how he gutted the pandemic early warning program, called PREDICT in China just before COVID hit.

    • @[email protected]
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      Or how he put a science-denying antivax fool in charge of the Department of Health and defunded all scientific research just before the great bird flu pandemic of '25?

      • nocturne
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        91 month ago

        Bird flu and tuberculosis pandemics of ‘25

        • slingstone
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          61 month ago

          Didn’t forget polio and measles. The antivaxers want those to make a comeback, too.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      This time we are even starting early, only not sure if it will be bird flu, ebola or turbeculosis.

  • Redex
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    411 month ago

    I mean it is poetic that it happened immediately after he did that, and it’s definitely a stupid decision, but this almost certainly didn’t have anything to do with that decision. That’s an action whose consequences won’t start to materialize till much later on.

    • Tiefling IRL
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      51 month ago

      Nuance left the room in 2016

    • Pistcow
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      101 month ago

      No one at all would he better than a nepbaby.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 month ago

    Too bad holodecks aren’t real. We could put him in one and let him fuck up a virtual world instead of the one we actually rely on.

    • Pistcow
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      201 month ago

      We could take him up to space and blow him out of an air lock. That’s kind of like Star Trek.

        • Pistcow
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          51 month ago

          Maybe we should aim for the Event Horizon experience?

          • TimeSquirrel
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            61 month ago

            Total Recall. Let’s see those eyeballs pop.

        • .Donuts
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          31 month ago

          I literally just started watching this. Going in for episode 2.

          The Lemmy algorithm is working ;)

          • TimeSquirrel
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            11 month ago

            You won’t be disappointed. Easily the best space scifi show of the last decade.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    It’s all Trumps fault.

    What a great narrative to start

    • @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      Absolutely, it is. Also, why the hell is gas still so expensive?

        • GladiusB
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          41 month ago

          He did that —>

  • @[email protected]
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    81 month ago

    This happened before, right? He did the samething with the trains. How did that workout?

  • @inclementimmigrant
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    21 month ago

    Well that’s good news for Boeing commercial at least.

    And because Poe /s.