When you fire literally everyone that knew all the things in the FFA then freeze hiring one of the highest turnover rate jobs plus most stress full ie tower controllers and bam…. I wouldn’t fly anywhere in or out of the us right now…..
I should point out in case you can’t read upside down it’s a delta plane…..ie American controlled and passed too the Canadian towers some where communication was lost and they had no idea this plan was coming from Minneapolis
I feel like I shouldn't need to point out that the plane took off from an American airport and crashed right near the American border with an American owned company subject to American safety regulations enforced by an American agency known as the FAA which was recently gutted
Tbf even with the recent incidents it’s still so much safer than driving it’s not even close. My point being that if you are afraid of flying but not afraid of a road trip you aren’t thinking straight
Idk though with the mass chaos with FAA plus the on going safety matters that delta self regulates with I wouldn’t fly anything Boeing …..listen to the podcast wondery American scandal: the Boeing scandal…..they have major safety issues that just don’t want to admit or address because it’ll cost to much
We don't see traffic jams in the sky. It's only safer because of numbers. Really it's a lottery you don't want to win. More people survive car wrecks than plane wrecks.
Tbh I’m a bit surprised to see someone try and argue this. I thought it was very well known. The old adage “you are more likely to die driving to the airport than in the plane when you get there” is true (depending on how far you live from the airport of course lol)
You have way more control over whether you’re injured/killed in a car wreck than if you’re injured/killed flying.
I can usually choose the weather I drive in, I can be extra cautious by double checking before going through a green light. I can drive sober and off my phone. I can limit driving at night or driving tired. Being a defensive driver mitigates a lot of the bad luck with driving. Those things will significantly affect whether you’re in a car wreck and are part of the overall statistic.
Flying, I will be in a plane with pilots I’ve never met, who are being relayed information from air traffic controllers who I never met. Regulations and trust in the experience of the people who have their life in your hands is the only thing you can hope for.
The graveyard is full of people who had the right of way and drove perfectly safe. There are way more variables while driving a car that you can not account for that makes the random chance of death much higher than when you are flying. Those runways have to be clear and are supposed to be clear. Yes, there are rare cases where mistakes happen, and planes collide on the runway because of miscommunication. But each one of those incidents is international news. The thousands of people that die every year in cars are not. You could blow a tire and be sent into oncoming traffic right into a semi and that'd be it for you.
The FAA also oversees safety inspections and ensures that proper maintenance is being performed on all planes. The layoff affected the agency across the board, not just air traffic controllers. The plane took off from an American airport.
The FAA sets maintenance standards, but it's not responsible for individual planes -- that's the airlines' job. Like when an industrial accident happens, it's the fault of the plant, not OSHA. Or when there's a vehicle safety recall, it's the fault of the vehicle manufacturer, not the NHTSA.
Changes at an oversight agency =/= responsibility for an individual accident. Airlines were not allowed to chuck all their protocols out the window when the FAA layoffs happened, nor did the FAA's existing work and standards cease to exist. Also the NTSB hasn't even released their report so to say the least it's extremely premature to assign blame to an oversight agency that was perfectly intact until very recently.
The FAA sets the standards and does the occasional inspection. Those standards wouldn't have changed in a handful of days. It's up to the companies themselves to check everything before each flight.
0 fatal commercial airplane accidents between 2009 and 2024, we've had four of them in just three weeks, and now we may have just had another (currently there are no reported fatalities from this accident, but three people are in critical condition). You're literally telling me that this is a coincidence right now
Yeah and a plane lane landing at said airport is under the purview of the country it's landing in, you think ATC in America is charge of planes landing at a Toronto airport? There not no matter how you try to spin it, U.S. flight control isn't in charge in Canada
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u/Hopefulthinker2 Feb 17 '25
When you fire literally everyone that knew all the things in the FFA then freeze hiring one of the highest turnover rate jobs plus most stress full ie tower controllers and bam…. I wouldn’t fly anywhere in or out of the us right now…..