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High speed aluminum tubing. Transportation, safety, and logistics. Trade labor supporter. #aviation #labor #1u
Firing 300,000 federal workers would save the US govt ~$35Bn. But it would reduce GDP by ~$119Bn that, with the ~$3Bn in unemployment claims, a net economic loss of $87Bn.
"That would be an outcome that is bad for everybody."
Analysis from @iata.org — yes, IATA. www.iata.org/en/publicati...
THIS!
08.03.2025 17:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New: A cross-section of aviation industry leaders call for emergency air traffic control funding, and to exempt the FAA from govt shutdowns, in letter to Congress.
“We are united in our grief over recent aviation accidents and our commitment to making sure accidents like these never happen again"
We, NATCA, believe that acknowledging the dedication of these professionals and focusing on addressing the chronic understaffing of our air traffic control system, as well as modernizing nation’s air traffic control infrastructure, would better serve the safety and reliability of the aviation system
09.02.2025 19:15 — 👍 31 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1Cutting on safety is never a money saving endeavor.
09.02.2025 04:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government.
Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
[February 2nd, 1925] The Air Mail Act, also known as the Kelly Act, came into effect, allowing the Post Office to contract private companies, such as Colonial Air Transport and National Air Transport, to carry mail. This boosted the US aviation industry.
#history #OTD #1920s
Watch what they do, not what they say.
They will blame "DEI" or "woke."
But they are firing folks who know the job or can monitor what they are doing.
Meanwhile, we pay the price.
Ex: firing the TSA head of TSA & the Aviation Security Advisory Committee.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
Safety systems are vulnerable to a phenomenon known in the disaster-management world as the “near-miss fallacy”—an inability to interpret and act upon the warnings embedded in situations where catastrophe is only narrowly avoided. Paradoxically, people may come to see such events as signs that the system is working. In her groundbreaking research on NASA after the space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, the American sociologist Diane Vaughan faulted the agency for its “normalization of deviance.” The direct culprits in the spacecraft’s fate were faulty booster-rocket parts known as “O-rings.” Vaughn noted that shuttle missions had been experiencing problems with the parts for years, but NASA had downplayed their importance. Engineers were able to normalize O-ring incidents and other safety issues because none had caused significant harm—until one did.
"But the accident follows a long string of alarming near collisions at airports across the country—a pattern suggesting that the aviation-safety systems upon which human life depends are under enormous strain."
31.01.2025 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
“The catastrophe appeared to confirm what pilots, air traffic controllers and safety experts had been warning for years: Growing holes in the aviation system could lead to this kind of [deadly] crash.”
So-called “govt efficiency” is going to make things even worse www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/b...
Ok - the debris is wet.
Did Air Florida have a midair collision?
Did the CRJ700 have an icing issue?
Air Florida happened during / shortly after takeoff.
This incident happened during the approach to landing.
It’s a stretch to correlate the two.
The only similarity to the Air Florida accident is the proximity to DCA. There’s literally no other correlation between the two.
30.01.2025 03:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
