Context: Google “Philly Plane Crash”

Just happened like a hour ago

Condolences to the victims 😓

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    5 hours ago

    fuck this situation so hard dude. imagine being one of the victims families and seeing your loved one’s lives being used as a pawn to denigrate people of color and the disabled.

    my utmost love and sympathy to all involved.

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    15 hours ago

    Not even a full 2 weeks in and planes are literally falling from the sky

    But ya know what! I’m so glad we taught the DNC a lesson at the polls!/s

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      14 hours ago

      The plane crashes and surge in popularity of Nazi rhetoric suck and all, but stay focused on the important things: we stopped that trans kid from playing tennis against real boys!! Worth it, right?!

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      13 hours ago

      Surely it must mean the planes are the cause of the high cost of eggs! Thank goodness they’re doing something about them.

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    13 hours ago

    The big concern if crashes increase will be that people won’t fly as much, which will hurt airline and hospitality industry profits.

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      8 hours ago

      Huh, I would’ve guessed that the big concern if crashes increase would be that more people would die.

      Of course, how could I forget about profits! /j

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        People may die, but CEO’s have feelings too! How would you feel if you only earn 200mljn instead of 210. I don’t get it why no one ever takes the side of big companies and always look at people suffering by these companies. Oh wait, no, that’s not true, most American citizens indeed voted in favor of big companies and CEO’s at the cost of the general public. Never mind then.

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      6 hours ago

      Pediatric patient among 6 on plane that crashed in Northeast Philadelphia: ‘It was just horrific’

      So… A child? What the fuck is this headline?

      The headline was weird to me at first, but it WAS an air ambulance… I guess it makes more sense than I gave it credit for.

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    16 hours ago

    Trump got rid of DEI and planes star falling out of the sky 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

    Very suspicious sounds like trumps trying to crash planes its all an inside job

    • Deme
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      11 hours ago

      Neither of the two planes that fell down recently were Boeings.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      11 hours ago

      Its a Learjet, which is now bought by Bombardier. The other plane crash earlier this week was also a Bombardier. Coincidence? 🤔

      We might have another contender to the role of “Worst Plane Manufacturer”

      Edit: To be fair, the other incident also involved a helicopter, we don’t know which was at fault, and it could be pilot error, rather than mechanical failure.

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        2 hours ago

        Could you explain like I’m an idiot how the Bomardier CRJ colliding with a UH60 was the a mechanical or design fault with the Bombardier CRJ? This is an interesting and unique take that I haven’t heard before and I want you to explain it more.

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        10 hours ago

        Respectfully, for the DCA incident, a military helicopter LITERALLY RAMMED INTO A JET THAT WAS 4 SECONDS FROM LANDING. There was no mechanical error.

        The consensus on r/aviation is that it was the helicopter pilot’s error, and it was a long time coming with the near-misses that have happened at that airport. Considering a lot of the people on that subreddit are actual pilots/military people/have access to ATC chatter, I’m gonna trust their opinions more.

        I don’t usually recommend going to reddit, but the r/aviation megathreads after the Jeju Air crash and then these two incidents were very informative. Plus the mods + community work very hard to keep away ignorant comments and conspiracy nuts.

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          So now we open into individual responsibility vs collective responsibility, the FAA and NTSB are the regulation bodies to force airlines and airports to fix these issues, but that’s big government regulation

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            Absolutely, something some people in the r/aviation megathread were discussing as well. Quite a few of them stated they hated takeoff/landing at DCA specifically because it’s probably the busiest airspace in the world, and there is always military crafts in that airspace.

            The big friction seems to be that there is a big military base right on the other side of the Potomac that has a lot of VIP air traffic as well as training flights in an overlapping corridor to the commercial flights. I’m not sure how the politics interplay between the military and the DCA authority there, but it can’t have been easy to work ATC.

            Again, that sub is always very informative. Helps alleviate my fear of flying quite a bit LOL.