Current Affairs The Would Be Emperor Has No Clothes (aka POTUS 47)

[dublinbluenose]

FAA are at fault for this tragedy. There have been many near-misses over the last few years so it was only a matter of time a tragedy would happen. There needs to be investigation into FAA and Trump needs to clean house.

Well hes gotten rid of over 100 senior FAA officials since inauguration. So there's that.

 

[emir]

well maybe he shouldnt have fired the Director of the FAA or disbanded the Aviation safety standards committee or asked for the resignation of hundreds of staff members in the last few days.
No civilian casualties under Bidens FAA.
Trump weighed in with his tiny hands and broke what was working fine.

He fired the director of FAA, so is there anyway you can link that to this tragedy at all? If there is no link, you should not be disingenuous and be mentioning this.

 

[Amw79]

If a democrat president had fired the director of the FAA, and forced hundreds of resignations immediately prior to a tragedy like this, the MAGA conspiracy would last for years.

 

[Yarrgh]

well maybe he shouldnt have fired the Director of the FAA or disbanded the Aviation safety standards committee or asked for the resignation of hundreds of staff members in the last few days.
No civilian casualties under Bidens FAA.
Trump weighed in with his tiny hands and broke what was working fine.

Sir, you're sounding dangerously un-American.

 

[Ruairi77]

He fired the director of FAA, so is there anyway you can link that to this tragedy at all? If there is no link, you should not be disingenuous and be mentioning this.

I dont know if there's a link, you're the one blaming the FAA.
All I'm saying is 'if it's not broke, dont fix it'.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

He fired the director of FAA, so is there anyway you can link that to this tragedy at all? If there is no link, you should not be disingenuous and be mentioning this.

Is this for real? You said it ffs

 

[emir]

Well hes gotten rid of over 100 senior FAA officials since inauguration. So there's that.

That's a start. It needs a whole revamp imo.

 

[Wizard]

It’s a longstanding issue at DCA going back decades. Here’s an NPR piece about it- many involving military aircraft https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s...ut-the-airport-has-a-history-with-near-misses

Guess we would need to see data from other airports of a similar size. But 30 near misses in over 30 years with 10 of them being military aircraft doesn’t on the surface seem a huge issue. They also didn’t define what a near miss is. Is it someone within a mile/a few hundred metres/someone having to take evasive action etc.?

Maybe DCA is a massive outlier but that report doesn’t really cover that.

 

[NeilMorepies]

 

[Wizard]

He fired the director of FAA, so is there anyway you can link that to this tragedy at all? If there is no link, you should not be disingenuous and be mentioning this.

So you make a seemingly unfounded claim saying it was the FAA’s fault and see no problem with doing that. Someone else makes an unfounded hypothesis of something that might have had an impact and suddenly that is an issue for you.

Can’t believe we’re going to have to deal with another four years of this blinded, cult like trash posting.

 

[wm02]

Guess we would need to see data from other airports of a similar size. But 30 near misses in over 30 years with 10 of them being military aircraft doesn’t on the surface seem a huge issue. They also didn’t define what a near miss is. Is it someone within a mile/a few hundred metres/someone having to take evasive action etc.?

Maybe DCA is a massive outlier but that report doesn’t really cover that.

Good points.

Here’s an article that provides a little more context: https://fortune.com/2025/01/30/reagan-airport-near-miss-accidents-american-airlines-crash/

 

[Blue 1]

well maybe he shouldnt have fired the Director of the FAA or disbanded the Aviation safety standards committee or asked for the resignation of hundreds of staff members in the last few days.
No civilian casualties under Bidens FAA.
Trump weighed in with his tiny hands and broke what was working fine.

Careful, that sort of talk could land you in Gitmo these days.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Guess we would need to see data from other airports of a similar size. But 30 near misses in over 30 years with 10 of them being military aircraft doesn’t on the surface seem a huge issue. They also didn’t define what a near miss is. Is it someone within a mile/a few hundred metres/someone having to take evasive action etc.?

Maybe DCA is a massive outlier but that report doesn’t really cover that.

Tenerife airport disaster.

 

[wm02]

Tenerife airport disaster.

Listened to a two-part podcast about this recently. Terrible tragedy but led to much needed standardization in communication

 

[Blue 1]

These lizards believe the only roles of government should be to protect them from their slaves and to keep women shackled to the kitchen sink and keep them making babies.