originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to News@lemmy.world · 1 day agoPassenger jet collides with helicopter while landing at Reagan Washington National Airport, FAA saysapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1298arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1295arrow-down1external-linkPassenger jet collides with helicopter while landing at Reagan Washington National Airport, FAA saysapnews.comoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to News@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square64fedilinkfile-text
A passenger jet has collided with a helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.
minus-squareSoJB@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·23 hours agoAviation 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.
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.