Trump blames 'obsolete' U.S. air traffic control system for plane and chopper collision near DC

Now lets defund the FAA and get rid of the air traffic controllers, amirite?

President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed last week's deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter on what he called an “obsolete” computer system used by U.S. air traffic controllers, and he vowed to replace it.

Wait... so it wasn't DEI?!? What a huge "surprise".

Now let’s defund the FAA and get rid of the air traffic controllers, amirite?

No, just anyone who isn’t qualified to be there and who could put peoples lives in jeopardy.

In his last term, Trump promised to fix the failing infrastructure. It didn't happen.

President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed last week's deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter on what he called an “obsolete” computer system used by U.S. air traffic controllers, and he vowed to replace it.

So it's not DEI, it's lack of funding.

So why the hell did you fire the heads of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and disband the Aviation Security Advisory Committee?

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Now let’s defund the FAA and get rid of the air traffic controllers, amirite?

No, just anyone who isn’t qualified to be there and who could put peoples lives in jeopardy.

Nope. It's a blanket move.

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Now let’s defund the FAA and get rid of the air traffic controllers, amirite?

No, just anyone who isn’t qualified to be there and who could put peoples lives in jeopardy.

Insisting on mass resignations is not the way to get the most qualified people.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Elon Musk said in posts on X that Musk's team at the Department of Government Efficiency is going to help rapidly upgrade the nation’s aviation safety system.

Gee let me guess, will a company that Musk owns be given the government contract to build this new aviation safety system?

Funny how fast scapegoating DEI goes out the window when opportunities for graft present themselves.

What happened to Trump's assertion that it was DEI? Now it's outdated systems?

But an FAA report after the crash said that the controller did get an alert that the plane and helicopter were converging when they were still more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) apart. The controller responded by asking the helicopter if it had the plane in sight and directed the helicopter to pass behind the plane. The helicopter responded that it did have the plane in sight.

Did the helicopter pilot have the correct plane in sight, or did they misunderstand and thought it was the plane before that one? Something tells me there was some confusion as to which plane they were talking about. This is the problem with congested airports. Planes come in for landings so close to each other. Seems to me that the helicopter pilot saw a plane under them, but neglected to see the plane (which is the one they hit) coming in right after the previous plane.

Yes, a better air traffic control system is needed, but seems to me that better training in such a scenario is also required.

Who's the President? Everything good and everything bad is his fault since Jan 20th. Period. Jan 19th, that was all Biden's fault.

ATC systems are out of date when the updated design is completed, 10 yrs before the deployment finishes. This is the nature of huge, complex, govt efforts. Good, clean, requirements lead to efficiently built systems.

I've worked on huge govt development programs. We had over 500 software developers on one. There was a govt shutdown - I think about 3 weeks long - which prevented the govt employees from interrupting and re-prioritizing work. It was great. We were able to actually stop handling fire-drills and just do our jobs.

That's a key aspect for efficiently running a govt program - stop re-prioritizing the workers and let them do their jobs for 6 months at a time without any fire-drills. And have small teams with deliverables every 2-3 weeks, so progress can be seen all along the way.