Only one controller was 'responsible for coordinating helicopter traffic and arriving and departing planes.'
that a preliminary FAA report shows that the Reagan National Airport air control tower had one controller “responsible for coordinating helicopter traffic and arriving and departing planes” when an Army helicopter and American Airlines plane collided on Wednesday.However, a person told the AP that “the staffing at the air traffic control tower on Wednesday night was at a normal level.”
The person explained that “positions are regularly combined when controllers need to step away from the console for breaks, are in the process of a shift change, or air traffic is slow.”January 30, 2025 at 8:24 pm I’m concerned the quick shift to blame DEI/et al may just damage the future program to remove DEI and CRT. Less than a day after, the arguments are set. IMHO – Human error, not DEI, “appears” to be the problem, wherever the blame may ultimately lie. By attributing the blame so early, it diminishes the ultimate verdictI get your point. But, while it will be months before we know with any degree of confidence what happened, what we do know is ATC is facing SIGNFICANT shortages.
How do you know? And as nordic prince said, they aren’t mutually exclusive. I don’t know what happened, maybe ATC there is full of Mensa members. Trump is closer to the info. than any of us. If he put his foot in his mouth, so be it. It’s a thing.
The “diminishes the ultimate verdict” theory is nonsense if it matches up with what Trump said, and it’s nonsense if it doesn’t, because the changes in regulations will be stark either way. No one is going to not change a federal aviation rule because Trump Mouth January 30, 2025.
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