@SkorchVoluntary@aakashgupta It’s kinda hard to kill people as a plumber that’s overworked
Very easy as a controller that’s overworked at an extremely busy airport and not being paid to do it at the moment
The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph.
Both pilots are dead.
Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years.
A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when.
The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day.
The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country.
Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years.
Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday.
The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement.
The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision.
The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.”
One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.
@SkorchVoluntary@PrimeSkillX@aakashgupta 😂😂😂😂😂 you’ve proved my point that you’re trying to make this about you right there. I’m a restaurant manager but my cousins’ dogs’ brother is also a dog.
We’re both as qualified as each other to speak on ATC.
@Ryan12_09@PrimeSkillX@aakashgupta Sorry my friend but just dismissing something without good reason is telling you dont have the ability to have a debate.
BTW. Im a farmer war vet, twice deployed, and have a sister that is a ATC.
I know what I'm talking about.
@SkorchVoluntary@PrimeSkillX@aakashgupta Not sure English is your strong suit. Plumber can find another job in plumbing, ATC can’t find another job in ATC.
You my friend are so unbelievably stupid
@SkorchVoluntary@PrimeSkillX@aakashgupta Sorry my friend but you are incorrect. Comparing plumbers to ATC in the first place is just insane but I think you are insane so I’ll let it slide.
I don’t know where you get your information from but it’s always worth checking its correct before posting it and looking silly.
@Ryan12_09@PrimeSkillX@aakashgupta Government Agents are protected by qualified immunity. A unique protection where what damages they caused they can be immune of any criminal or civil liability.
Plumbers are not. They fucked up, they can be held criminally and civilly responsible.
@SkorchVoluntary@PrimeSkillX@aakashgupta So you’ve got one incident 5 years ago to compare to a problem that’s being ongoing for OVER 5 years. Good stuff bud, sounds like a plumber wanting to make it all about them to me. Have a bit of empathy
@Ryan12_09@PrimeSkillX@aakashgupta Cool tell that to a plumber in Texas great freeze of 2021. Oh wait I was there for that. I worried 90+ hour near every week for over a month.
@SkorchVoluntary@PrimeSkillX@aakashgupta employer of ATC in the US, the FAA.
So yeah, easy to compare them for you and easy for you to point the finger on the surface, but the man prob has a family to feed, and it’s a job for life.
@SkorchVoluntary@PrimeSkillX@aakashgupta they can find another job.
ATC, around 0.07 of them per 1000 people, could call in to work if tired or fatigued, but then offload that problem onto the next person, as they aren’t so easily replaceable! They may also risk losing their job, which unfortunately, there’s only one
@BNONews I keep saying this ! Take a look at the fiber!maybe some part of the airplane should be made with aluminum for human protection! This young promising pilot would have made it ! Heartbreaking!!!!
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So young and so strong Trump derangement. I'm against banning social media for kids but the ones like this one really make a strong case