**NO** Airliner Crashes in 10 years ... Trump fires Air Safety committee

[uponit7771]

Last edited Thu Jan 30, 2025, 04:13 PM - Edit history (1)

No airliner crashes for more than 10 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft_in_the_United_States

Trump fires Air Safety Advisory Committee

https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c

"...The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports. Before Tuesday, the group included representatives of all the key groups in the industry — including the airlines and major unions — as well as members of a group associated with the victims of the PanAm 103 bombing. The vast majority of the group’s recommendations were adopted over the years...."


Its going to get worse from here


EDIT: ... and then there's this !!!

Enron Musk fires head of FAA

https://www.yahoo.com/news/faa-administrator-quit-jan-20-045322293.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAM-CsdEnFVCkRdDo1nrkJdUjfkcwBXF_91DTOrjNS-DOpok-WQyeD1-nxIvrDaykkWqNNQrUnAw2nOoImMO_tB2ZOhNsDDVH7N1FkuX0DyWLWQceOl3HlXZQzS7ImDFqnh7N15O9gAbuTZ2l90gTGnOExcoXTKjcF7JEiUrRPHsg

[Ocelot II]

1. There haven't been any plane crashes for 10 years so we don't need a safety committee, right?

Just like if people aren't getting sick we can stop vaccinating them, right?
If I haven't been burglarized since I got an alarm system I guess I could get rid of the alarm system.
My house hasn't caught on fire so I guess I'll get rid of my smoke detectors.

[uponit7771]

3. There have been helicopter and charted flight crashes but no airliners even the ones that did happen didn't have a....

... lot of colatarol damage and relatively few people.

The FAA has been pretty tight until Trump fired the head this year

[Maraya1969]

2. It would be great it someone checking the plastic bafoon's plan and 'missing"

some important problems.

Or, just stick a frigging bomb in it somewhere

[UpInArms]

4. More from your article dated January 21 (9 days ago)

President Donald Trump moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday, firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up and eliminated all the members of a key aviation security advisory group.

Trump’s immigration policy changes drew the most attention at DHS, but he is also making changes at the rest of the massive agency.

Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday saying that the department is eliminating the membership of all advisory committees as part of a “commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security.”

The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports. Before Tuesday, the group included representatives of all the key groups in the industry — including the airlines and major unions — as well as members of a group associated with the victims of the PanAm 103 bombing. The vast majority of the group’s recommendations were adopted over the years.

[lame54]

5. If the Press sides with Trump on this one...

They are lost forever

[Skittles]

19. reading the headlines.....

total whitewashing

[barbtries]

20. Independent Media

is my go to. fuck legacy media, they are an affront to the first amendment. Here's a few really good people.

https://substack.com/@muellershewrote

https://www.youtube.com/@MSWMediaPods - The Daily Beans is a news podcast it's really good

https://substack.com/profile/4875576-heather-cox-richardson?utm_source=global-search

https://www.democracydocket.com/ - Marc Elias

I started a Substack and there are more links on this post
https://substack.com/home/post/p-155024267

[dclarston13]

6. There have been lots of plane crashes in the past 10 years

This is another blatant falsehood. The NTBS website shows numerous active avaition investigations, not all are crashes, but there are actual crashes on the list.
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/Investigations.aspx#mapFilter
yes it going to get worse.

[Ocelot II]

7. I think the reference was to major airline crashes, of which there were none until now.

Of course there were GA and other incidents, always have been, although GA is also lot safer now than it used to be. When I was working as a flight instructor in the '90s I knew two other instructors who were killed in small aircraft accidents. One was a midair collision on approach to the airport I worked at and the other was loss of control during a single-engine demo in a Beech Duchess. These accidents get very little press, even locally, but they're shocking as hell when you know someone involved.

[dclarston13]

27. Thats what I thought too

But that would also be incorrect, the 737 Max had 2 crashes in 2018 - 2024? that killed over people total

[Ocelot II]

28. They didn't occur in the US, though.

[dclarston13]

31. Not trying to b e contrary but.....

That is exactly my point, people use vague wording so a person assumes it makes sense. Then the reporter or whoever it is holding the microphone does not ask for a clarification. Without oversight those faulty 737s would be put in service in the US and the accidents would be blamed on DEI hires or some other nonsense.

[twodogsbarking]

8. I don't need a vaccine, nobody gets that disease any more. Same logic. But not logical.

[usaf-vet]

9. I'm noticing more and more newcomers to DU starting to post.Most I have seen have less the 500 posts and always.....

..... seems contrarian to the position of the post they are posting on. Is this just me, or are others seeing and feeling this?

[uponit7771]

10. Yep, a lot have come over from X echo chamber .. they noticing they're getting dumber talking to themselves

[birdographer]

23. Seems like they are taking a risk

They might hear something that makes sense. Their one remaining brain cell just might retain it.

Nah, never mind. Just kidding.

[Skittles]

14. fly-under-the-radar trolls

they come out en masse for a big news event

[live love laugh]

18. Amazing that some have the patience to fly under the radar for years.

Kinda weird to me to waste time hanging out in a place with people I detest but they’re nothing if not weird so it makes sense in that regard.

[Skittles]

26. yeah, it is indeed odd

but then, these are the kind of people think conservatives have their back

[W_HAMILTON]

21. Yep, been seeing this since for awhile now.

And it ain't only the posters with just a few hundred posts that do that...

If you know, you know.

[WarGamer]

11. I used to fly a LOT...

And I always analyze safest flights.

I don't often fly in or out of LAX, JFK, DCA, ORD or MIA

Most of my flights originated in Burbank or PHX, I tried to pick mid day flights, watched what equipment was used... typical stuff engineers obsess over.

[Initech]

12. Shouldn't this be proof that Musk's bullshit is dangerous?

We need to put him and his worthless piece of shit DOGE department on the next freight train out of DC now!

[uponit7771]

13. Yep, on Tesla call this morning he sounded high as hell and not too far away from Trump logic in what FSD isn't up yet

... that call should've crashed the freakin stock but they were able to apply 600 million of crypto stock to float it.

People were appalled after that call ... there are no doubt Russians backing this guy too ... report about SpaceX and a Russian oligarch came out recently.

[SunSeeker]

15. Same thing happened before covid. Trump fired our pandemic watchdogs in China.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3NE/

[kimbutgar]

16. He blaming it on President Obama and Biden for this incident

While he fired all these professionals who know about air safety. I think the morale was very low with the air traffic controllers and I bet the air traffic controller was not a DEI hire.

I can’t hate 🤬😡the 🍑💩🤡 more today!

Please karma do some payback asap!

[progressoid]

17. Enron Musk didn't fire the head of FAA

If accuracy is important, then we should use our words accurately.

From the link you gave:

The Federal Aviation Administration’s leader stepped down on Jan. 20, months after Elon Musk demanded that he quit.

[uponit7771]

25. Semantics, outcome is the same

[progressoid]

29. OK

so semantics means we can just make shit up as long as it fits the narrative?

Seems to me that drumpf does enough horrible things every day that we don't need to stretch the truth.

[uponit7771]

32. Legally this seen as a firing in federal court..... ask me how I know

[LilElf70]

22. But, but, it's certainly not my fault.

Blame it on Biden, Buttegieg, DEI, the pilots, the controllers. He never stops coming up with excuses as to why it could not possibly be him. He's such a loser.

[boonecreek]

24. My reply to babylonsister's post yesterda.

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19963565

[BoRaGard]

30. Everything the G.O.P. Felon touches withers or dies

as the record shows