Nathan Walker

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.

Utterly shocked and amazed to see a Brexiteer using completely made up figures to argue a point of view. Why are we giving this crap airtime?

The population in the UK in 2020 was 67.1 million, not 58 million, like Jim Ratcliffe said, & the population of the UK in 2025 was 69.5 million, according to the Office for National Statistics. It's a 2.4M increase, not 12M The far-right are already running with these numbers.

🚨 CAUGHT OUT 🚨 Nigel Farage has once again been caught lying to his gullible Reform UK supporters. He now claims he never promised to cut council tax — yet this video proves the opposite. What’s even sadder? His supporters are clapping while he u-turns in real time. No plan. No honesty. Just slogans, spin, and a compliant audience.

The MATT GOODWIN being completely owned about flawed data

Labour won well over 400 seats in July 2024 based on their manifesto pledges. Labour have achieved or are on course to achieve 2/3 of that Manifesto already, not 2 years in. So why don’t the media ever say anything positive about that? They just want Labour out. Why?

This is Alex Pretti, the man the Trump admin and Trump supporters call a "domestic terrorist." Here Pretti is reading the final honors, honoring a soldier who has passed away at the hospital he was a nurse at. Stop believing Trump's propaganda. He is lying to you! WAKE UP!

🚨 EXPOSED: Farage grilled on Bloomberg over Reform’s pledge to cut council tax — after slapping voters with 5–10% hikes. His defence? “I never said I’d cut taxes.” This video says otherwise. Serial U-turns, deception, and empty promises — a disaster waiting to happen for Britain’s economy.

Literally everything is getting better. Don’t let the far-right ruin it.

I see Tom Skinner is Reform’s latest ‘star signing’. ✅ Grew up loaded with Lamborghinis in the garage, but cosplays as working class. ✅ Privately-educated. ✅ Convicted criminal. ✅ Failed to pay back £50,000 Covid loan. ✅ Betrayed his Mrs. He’ll fit right in.

For those people, silly little ridiculous people, claiming “Labour aren’t actually doing anything”, have you ever considered the possibility that they are, but the predominantly right wing media choose not to cover the achievements, and occasionally, actual good news? In a week:

Tory psychodrama: chapter 876

I hope Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt enjoyed the game today. One of their mates in the dugout, academy on the pitch, 4 at the back, loads and loads of “United DNA” to enjoy. Must have been quite the experience for them.

I am delighted to welcome Nadhim Zahawi to Reform UK. He will bring useful experience, such as claiming £6,000 to heat his stables and avoiding £3.7m tax by hiding £27m offshore and threatening to sue anyone who asked about it.

Not again! Fucking Reeves.

Tennis commentator: "Nobody is supposed to play this well at 38. But Novak Djokovic isn't just anybody. He is the greatest of all time and is reminding us why." The best point of 2025.

‘Everyone grieves differently’ Erika Kirk:

Jake Paul broken jaw, Andrew Tate having his non existent chin punched off, Wee Tommy Robinson pissing his pants in Dubai and Gerwyn Price pumped in the darts. Some few days for the woke 🕺🕺🕺

You're out in the freezing winter rain hanging flags on lamp posts. Tommy Robinson and Ant Middleton are living it large in a Muslim country. You are not the same - you aren't even fighting the same 'enemy.'

Stokes getting a lot credit today and probably rightly so But I can’t forget he’s been telling the others to ‘just go harder next time’ He said Cook was unlikely to get in his team He retired Anderson Thrown away a number of series It’s just made me more pissed off tbh!!