originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to News@lemmy.world · 24 hours agoPassenger jet collides with helicopter while landing at Reagan Washington National Airport, FAA saysapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1293arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1290arrow-down1external-linkPassenger jet collides with helicopter while landing at Reagan Washington National Airport, FAA saysapnews.comoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to News@lemmy.world · 24 hours agomessage-square63fedilinkfile-text
A passenger jet has collided with a helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down2·23 hours agoStill safer than car travel per passenger mile, by quite a large margin
minus-squareFrozengyro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·22 hours agoYea this was the first crash since 2009 I believe. At least in the US. Still not okay, but we’ve been doing well/also been pretty lucky a few times.
minus-squareSoJB@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down2·21 hours agoAviation infrastructure has been strained to the breaking point since Covid. ATC, ramps, pilots, crew, everyone in the chain except the executives. Aviation is designed so that one minor mistake does not snowball into an incident or accident. When capitalism stretches those constraints, you start stacking small issues and now you have a very big one. Welcome to the collapse of empire.
minus-squaredarkdemize@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·22 hours agoFirst fatal commercial crash*
Still safer than car travel per passenger mile, by quite a large margin
Yea this was the first crash since 2009 I believe. At least in the US. Still not okay, but we’ve been doing well/also been pretty lucky a few times.
Aviation infrastructure has been strained to the breaking point since Covid. ATC, ramps, pilots, crew, everyone in the chain except the executives.
Aviation is designed so that one minor mistake does not snowball into an incident or accident.
When capitalism stretches those constraints, you start stacking small issues and now you have a very big one.
Welcome to the collapse of empire.
First fatal commercial crash*
Yes, thank you.