r/technology • u/marketrent • Feb 01 '25

Transportation Trump admin emails air traffic controllers to quit their jobs en masse, after fatal midair collision

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-emails-air-traffic-controllers-quit-your-jobs/
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u/elihurootsghost Feb 01 '25

It goes beyond the tech bros too, men like Charles Koch have been actively financing the deconstruction of our country in the name of profit.

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u/notreallyswiss Feb 02 '25

Strange. Didn't one of the Koch brothers survive an airplane crash that killed nearly everyone on board a while ago? Hold on while I check Wikipedia....

Yes he did. David Koch survived a 1991 LAX runway collision between a 737 and a MetroLiner turbo prop.

These were the NTSB's findings on the cause of the crash: The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that the probable cause of the accident was the procedures in use at the LAX control tower, which provided inadequate redundancy, leading to a loss of situational awareness by the local controller, and inadequate oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for failing to supervise the control tower managers.

Boy I think that explanation for accidents is going to become depressingly familiar.