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[–] xkbx@startrek.website 183 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Finally, the freedom to have sick plane crashes thanks to deregulation πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ¦…πŸ¦…πŸ¦…πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸ’₯

Well it cost money and held yous back.

/s …Justin Case.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just to put this into perspective, here's a visualization of the flight data. The two aircraft were never on a collision course. They slightly violated a 5-mile separation requirement: their closest point of approach was 4.85 miles. The pilot did need to respond to the TCAS alert, but that alert was very conservative.

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

These conservative warnings exist for a reason, though. That being hundreds of lives at stake. What I think would be more interesting is to hear how often these types of events occurred before and after the layoffs at the FAA

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 137 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This is very dangerous. Time to remove regulations for collision warning systems on airplanes, so dangerous maneuvers like this don’t happen in the future

Tap for spoiler/s

[–] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, just let the pilots fly Tony Hawk freestyle. Time to get creative!

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[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 132 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Is gutting the federal government working yet? Is the swamp drained? Is the winning complete? Are my bigoted piece of shit nazi flag flying neighbors satisfied yet?

[–] Screamium@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uh, what? Something like 80 % of their economy is now government spending.

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[–] notsure@fedia.io 88 points 1 month ago (1 children)

...should we hire more tower administators, and look into the epstein files?....

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah, let's cut them and burn the evidence!

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Well hold up. I wasn't on that plane so actually yeah you're right.

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[–] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Remind us who cut funding to FAA?

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[–] zelahdieliekeis@piefed.blahaj.zone 66 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Fuck Jimmy Dore, he turned against the queers. Last I saw a video of him interviewing with some bad-faith transmedicalist harassing people at pride acting all innocent like "I'm just asking questions" - his loud mouth was good as 2016 was going down but of course loudmouths don't always know when to shut it.

[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah Jimmy Dore fucks around with Alex Jones. They can both go to hell

[–] ZMonster@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It just blows me away how many people are just responding to this without addressing it...

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I had no idea who this person was until @zelahdieliekeis@piefed.blahaj.zone's comment prompted me to look into it. Calling out crap like this is helpful.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

He's always been a grifter

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[–] ImminentOrbit@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

You're right, but I don't think The Internet cares.

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Put your fking seatbelts on. All the time.

[–] blackouttripleseven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 month ago (3 children)

stuff like this is why i'm lowkey terrified of flying also this isn't a shitpost

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you'd rather stick to the ground, where you can't dive to avoid an oncoming vehicle?

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Yeah, shitpost needs some better moderation. Shitpost has literally just become post whatever you want. And if that's what it is, I guess that's what it is, but the term "shitpost" to me had always been someone coming and derailing serious threads with nonsense opinions, unrelated pics, etc. So silly trolling.

This post is a picture of a tweet about a near mid-air collision. Unless the second plane was just fucking around, shitflying as they say, I don't know that it qualifies for the low, low bar that is shitposting.

[–] mlegstrong@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can assure you some pants were shit on that flight

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[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

TCAS is working overtime to make up for the years of neglecting the FAA.

[–] SpermHowitzer@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TCAS warnings initially come up about 90 seconds before a potential collision, and a resolution advisory comes up about 60 seconds before a collision. A resolution advisory is obviously a serious situation, but it’s early enough that the climb or descent commands are really not anything crazy, not anything outside a normal climb or descent. No one should be hitting the ceiling if a tcas resolution is flown properly.

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Once the flight smoothed out, Ulasewicz, who was traveling to Las Vegas, said the pilot made an announcement indicating the plane used software to avoid a midair collision.

Apparently it was right before catering service and well into AP flight. As a europoor I only master Airbus so I don’t know how a 737 is supposed to respond to a TA/RA.

Let’s wait for better sources than twitter and nbc.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

Do we have two pilots in here

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[–] exu@feditown.com 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And that's why you always wear the seatbelt

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[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sitting in an airport right now. Great.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can I have your computer if you die?

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I won't be using them, ha.

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[–] Cerothen@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Relevant news story about air traffic control.

https://youtu.be/YeABJbvcJ_k

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[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago
[–] other_cat@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And this is why I don't fly anymore. It was never an enjoyable experience (except takeoff. Wee!!) and now it's even less worth it.

Now I find myself having a depressed opinion on the lack of train options.

[–] DesolateMood@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Don't planes have seatbelts? How did so many people manage to fly out of their seats?

Also friendly reminder to everybody that planes are still the safest mode of transportation by a significant margin

[–] shane@feddit.nl 44 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Planes are the safest form of transportation if you look at safety per km travelled. If you look at other metrics, like safety per trip or per travel time then they are less safe than busses or trains.

https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/184330

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Last time I posted something about this, it was downvoted to oblivion. Glad to see that didn’t happen here. There are some statistical quirks that make this obvious once you think about it though.

Planes tend to make long trips, so anything measured on a per-km basis is going to be wildly diluted. Nobody is taking a plane to travel a few blocks. Something like a car will tend to make much shorter (but more frequent) trips, so the per-km stat won’t be diluted. But inversely, the per-trip stat will be diluted with cars, purely because they’re used much more often.

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[–] Marleyinoc@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It sure feels like that margin has been shrinking in the last year or so.

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[–] Ele7en7@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

If only there were a device to keep you in your seat when something like this happens

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm flying out of Burbank Monday πŸ˜ƒ

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 1 month ago

And the same thing happened in Minot, North Dakota not even a week ago.

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