There’s certainly some anxiety regarding the airspace around Washington National Airport (DCA), given the fatal mid-air collision we saw several weeks back, which claimed 67 lives. Along those lines, it was an unusual weekend at the airport, as several planes reported receiving collision warnings, despite no traffic being around.
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American ingenuity, know-how, and superiority everywhere since inauguration day.
Probably an adjustment from the new instruction that air traffic at DCA must halt every time the president is moved. So yeah, it's Russia
Yes, it's getting better. Unfortunately, not even a great man like Trump can fix the damage caused in the last four years in only a few months.
So happy that the planned systems upgrade that was awarded to a vendor through a deliberative and transparent procurement process is being swiftly supplanted by a different vendor owned by a drug-addicted presidential crony whose electric vehicles have been plagued by massive safety and reliability defects.
Incidentally, the same crony who illegally fired a bunch of air safety personnel before taking to the social media platform he tanked to beg retired personnel to return!
It's believed it may have been a small drone, which would have been difficult to see. Not Donald Trump.
This is another evidence that non-US allies are trying to sabotage Trump and Musk's US. We now have generational visionary leadership and the other countries are clearly jealous of us. Ukraine just recently visited and then this happened, it is clear that Europe, UK, and even our closest neighbour Canada are trying very hard to cause these false signals to create more problems for us.
The sooner we conquer Canada and Russia conquer and rule Europe, the safer it will be for the US and our people.
Trump is not allowed a 3rd term, but it's good that we have Musk in the background to assist with the transition from Trump senior to the next generation.
Why does it feel like we are having more flight incidents lately? some fatal and some not, but still, a lot of flight incidents than "usual"
Sadly, having noticed JPlat's previous comments, I don't believe it's an attempt at satire but unfortunately not majority but a large enough part of how a lot of America thinks now.
Looking at the appointments and "loud" supporters of Musk's America now, I guess a civilisation needs to fall somehow.
First as IAD is my home airport, I like your name.
Second, the reality is the man has been in office a little over a month; he can't change the world in that short period of time. The reality is he won the election, and he deserves at least six months to fix the mess he inherited.
@NW it's bonkers. The idea that because something odd is going on with Washington airport, that it follows it must be Ukraine or Canada or Europe's fault or all three and as such they all need to be conquered is wild and a bit deranged. There is zero "evidence" any of these nations are behind something which, as the post has pointed out, is likely just a glitch - despite the illogical protestations of @jplat
Question is was this before or after the "doge" crew plugged into the ground systems.
The unsatisfying, but likely explanation is that it is a random uptick not “caused” by anything. Like flipping a coin is 50/50, you can still get 5 heads in a row, but it will regress to the mean eventually. The causes, locations, etc. don’t seem related or connected to a likely underlying specific issue/issues, as opposed to the various Boeing 737 MAX issues stemming from Boeing operating procedures and culture.
The less likely explanation is that systemic changes to the industry as a whole (regulations, safety standards, enforcement efforts, information sharing, staffing levels, employee training, international cooperation, operating procedures, safety culture, etc.) have changed negatively in the last 10 or so years. Those changes have finally permeated through the system, resulting in larger holes in the swiss cheese safety system, and what we are seeing now is a new higher accident rate that will continue in the future. That there is no “regress to the mean” because this is the new mean.