Right after mollusk forced out the FAA chief too 🧐
Not only that, Delta Air spent $3.8 million to lobby for more slots. United, Alaska, and American Airlines objected because experts have been arguing for years that Reagan is dangerously overcrowded and had been experiencing near-misses.
Anyway, Delta got what they wanted and just last month the airport started allowing more flights.
Lobbying should be a criminal offense. It directly undermines the democratic pillars of American society.
The data shows the helicopter well above the maximum altitude - 350 feet instead of 200. I don’t think the staffing was the problem.
Another pair of eyes might have caught it and called out “hey fuckass, this helo is getting too close, go around”. One person managing too much means they miss things.
Someone did tell the Blackhawk to pass behind the plane prior to the collision. The helo pilots probably thought they were talking about another plane in the airspace, which is always very crowded.
Yeah, and the other pair of eyes might have noticed them not doing that.
I don’t understand why it’s normal procedure to fly over an active airport with a helicopter.
That seems destined to have issues
Can’t they just fly around it?
I’m confused because Snopes is saying they’re now saying staffing was in control? Wondering who got pressured to change their report.
Dude, quit reading Snopes for fact-based information, it was recently sold and the people who originally owned it are gone. Iirc it was bought by a media corporation that has bias.
goes to snopes to check the validity of this claim… Wait…
Is that the case? I remember in the mid 90’s scrolling through each entry, usually the urban legends and spooky sections, reading late into the night, occasionally shitting myself because every 15th page had sound effects or midi music.
Over the last 5 or so years I’ve watched people claim it isn’t accurate and can’t be trusted anymore, but the people claiming that were always… Well…idiots. Clearly just wanted to chose their own facts.
Do you have a link or something about this more recent development?
Edit: read the wiki page, but yeah, not much about who the new owners are. Just that the original owners are gone. So anyone with an article or other link/source so I can read up.
Thanks. This doesn’t really tell me why I shouldn’t trust the new owners over the old ones. They own salon.com? I can’t say I have any sence of how factual that place would be…
