This poor person has to live with this for the rest of their life, an issue that likely wouldn’t have occurred if we treated air traffic control jobs as the high risk jobs they are.

[jeridansky@sfba.social]

@Ashedryden That was one of my first thoughts when I read about this late last night. My heart breaks for the air traffic controller. (Of course I also mourn the deaths and the injuries.)

[kagerapaz@tech.lgbt]

@Ashedryden this poor controller was handling ground traffic, air traffic and another fucking emergency before this one happened. LGA was so busy that they didn't even have a free gate for the previous emergency, but they had just this one person handling all of this by himself. despicable mismanagement

[ronanmcd@mastodon.green]

@Ashedryden doesn't sound like the blame rests (solely at least) with the controller. 4 runways, one person? Management caused this

[cassandra_complex@beige.party]

@Ashedryden
I've watched my share of videos from pilots explaining how accidents occur and what I have learned is that air traffic was always meant to have backups and redundancies. When there is an accident, it is often many different systems all failing. Unfortunately, the understaffing is a very large hole in the safety netting, allowing even minor oversights to turn into fatalities.

Unfortunately, the public will often look to the last person in the chain expecting the answers to how it all went wrong even when the issue stems from staffing cuts and budget cuts. And the last person in the chain will often be left with guilt and pain thinking they could have done something different when it was all just a matter of time

[ve2uwy@mastodon.radio]

@Ashedryden

The fash have been shitting on air traffic controllers for at least 45 years.

The Murder of the U.S. Middle Class Began 40 Years Ago This Week

President Ronald Reagan’s firing of air traffic controllers on strike in 1981 was the first huge offensive in corporate America’s war on everyone else.

The Intercept (theintercept.com)

[rightsprung@c.im]

@Ashedryden

100%

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@kageRapaz @Ashedryden

So in other words, the chronic underfunding and starvation and emotional abuse of air traffic controller finally cracked.

I think there are a lot of other small scale mistakes that go on all the time with private jets although I think sometimes the pilots are major fuck ups.

I can’t imagine doing ATC

[donhawkins@mastodon.social]

@Ashedryden
Yeah, but that would require ending the Republican Party entirely & permanently.

[alanthecampbell@techhub.social]

@Ashedryden oh man, that poor person, I sure hope there’s some mental health support available.

[johnlogic@sfba.social]

@VE2UWY @Ashedryden

Link past wall:

"The Murder of the U.S. Middle Class Began 40 Years Ago This Week

Reagan's firing of striking air traffic controllers was the first huge offensive in corporate America's war on everyone else."

By Jon Schwarz
August 6 2021, 11:37 a.m.

"Forty years ago, on August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 striking air traffic controllers and barred them from ever working again for the federal government. ..."

archive.ph

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[archivescribe@mastodon.social]

@Ashedryden This is tragic.

[koh_kun@mastodon.social]

@Ashedryden There's an interesting (somewhat unpopular) opinion in the comments of the article suggesting that airports are designed very poorly. I wonder if there is any truth to that. My deepest condolences to the pilots and I hope the controller finds peace as well.