When a passenger jet roaring down the runway toward takeoff at New York’s LaGuardia Airport had to slam on the brakes earlier this month because another plane was still on the runway, Renee Hoffer and all the other passengers were thrown forward in their seats.
Hoffer wound up in the emergency room the next day after the near miss on May 6 because her neck started hurting and her left arm went numb.
“The stop was as hard as any car accident I’ve been in,” Hoffer said.
Under MAGAt control the airways are not safe.
The destruction of American ATC has been going on for a lot longer. I follow quite a few ATC incident channels and they’ve been cost cutting and penny pinching, shifting operations from local controllers to remote controllers miles away without proper training.
Remember, it is illegal for Air Traffic Controllers to strike for better working conditions (or any other reason) and Ronald Reagan fired 11.000 striking workers when they did strike. The damage of that decision took 10 years to repair.
At the time that controller was directing the Republic Airways jet to takeoff, a ground controller on a different radio frequency was directing the United plane to a new taxiway after it missed the first one it was supposed to use to exit the runway.
I thought one and only one controller was supposed to have custody of an active runway.
Ya, but that’s not efficient enough /s
Airlines keep pushing to get more throughput on the runways; closing the time between planes.
Not only does it cause chances of being in the wake of the previous plane, there is no time cushion if something happens.
Yes, but when your work place is understaffed, you are over worked, and you are working on software and systems from the early 80s… Mistakes happen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not like hundreds of people’s lives are at stake.
I’ll tell you right now I made the decision a few weeks ago but I’m not getting in another fucking plane until Trump’s out of office
Same. Soon as the headlines had two fatal air collisions in like the same week, I was good to drive or not travel at all. Then the harassment of people by federal enforcement further solidified that decision.
This is another great example of why rehearsing things is so important.
