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A passenger jet has collided with a helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Planes scare the fuck out of me these days what the shit is going on up there?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Still safer than car travel per passenger mile, by quite a large margin

[–] Frozengyro 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Yea this was the first crash since 2009 I believe. At least in the US. Still not okay, but we've been doing well/also been pretty lucky a few times.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 17 hours ago

Aviation infrastructure has been strained to the breaking point since Covid. ATC, ramps, pilots, crew, everyone in the chain except the executives.

Aviation is designed so that one minor mistake does not snowball into an incident or accident.

When capitalism stretches those constraints, you start stacking small issues and now you have a very big one.

Welcome to the collapse of empire.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

First fatal commercial crash*

[–] Frozengyro 2 points 17 hours ago

Yes, thank you.

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