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Commercial pilot and commentor indicates extremely poor radio discipline by the army helicopter pilot is to blame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3sY3faRcaA

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bookofjoe · 8h ago

https://archive.ph/ZKauf

ChrisArchitect · 5h ago

4 days ago news https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43876359

JumpCrisscross · 4h ago

I mean, DOGE around and find out [1]. Between Hegseth and a gutted FAA it’s probably a matter of time before we see, best case, ATC reducing flight volumes.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2025/03/14/faa...

CGMthrowaway · 4h ago

Concerns about the FAA's air traffic control system date back decades.

2008: U.S. air traffic controller force in crisis

2009: JOBS: A Scramble to Add Air Traffic Controllers

2010: FAA Faces Challenges in ATC Staffing

2011: How Ronald Reagan Doomed The FAA To A Staffing Crisis Every 25 Years

2012: FAA's ATC Staffing Shortage Continues

2013: Tower at O’Hare May Be a Victim of Federal Cuts

2014: Blame the FAA for air-traffic controller shortage

2015: Union: Chronic shortage of air traffic controllers a crisis

2016: Why the U.S. Doesn't Have Enough Trained Air Traffic Controllers

2017: Breaking point: America's air traffic control

2018: Could air traffic controller shortage have impact on safety?

2019: Shutdown Sets Off Airport Delays as F.A.A. Announces Staffing Shortages

2020: A global shortage of air traffic controllers is being exacerbated by huge demand for flights

2021: Staff shortage, bad weather blamed for flight cancellations at JIA, airports nationwide

2022: What’s behind the US air traffic controller labor shortages

2023: Drunk and Asleep on the Job: Air Traffic Controllers Pushed to the Brink

2024: FAA still short about 3,000 air traffic controllers, new federal numbers show

2025: Concerns about the FAA's air traffic control system date back decades

JumpCrisscross · 3h ago

Right. The FAA has been understaffed for decades. Cutting its staff further is giving a starving patient a staph infection. The rate of actual failures, not stories about staffing, has gone up.

CGMthrowaway · 3h ago

Incidents at U.S. airports are making headlines in 2025, but these types of incidents are actually happening less often than in the past.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/02/26...

Serious close calls have serious close calls have decreased over 20 years

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/airport-runway-incidents-ris...

goku12 · 4h ago

Here is a non-partisan question. Another thread mentions that there was a minimum of one near miss every month for the last 13 years. I thought that near misses were treated nearly as seriously as full blown disasters. The current administration may make it worse. But what explains the rot in the past?

wkat4242 · 1h ago

One a month is not a lot if you compare it to the total number of flights. And there's different grades of near misses. Some are not all that near.

The big ones like that JFK incident make the news but most don't.

I don't think it's really a partisan issue either. The FAA and especially the NTSB are pretty impartial and just care about the truth, what went wrong and how this can be avoided in the future.

Of course Trump makes it political by screaming DEI every time something happens, before there's even a preliminary investigation. But I wouldn't take that seriously. He does that with everything.

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2 Planes Abort Landings as Army Helicopter Flies Near D.C. Airport

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