That's the most sensible thing I've seen all day.Apparently, the tower at the airport has been under staffed since 2023. 19 staff instead of 30! With controllers looking after both planes and helos when in normal circumstances they have a dedicated controller each.
Here is a good short video on what this Captain believes happened. Seems logical:
His lies etc have got their own wiki page.That was the most shameful response to a tragedy I have ever seen.
Pages, surely.His lies etc have got their own wiki page.
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False or misleading statements by Donald Trump - Wikipedia
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True but it didn't cause the accident, nor did disabled people, it was a black hawk pilot on a training session who looked at the wrong plane having turned off key instruments that would have identified the presence of the plane they then hit. Why military aircraft are allowed into the landing path of a civilian plane is difficult to understand.Is this true.
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Endless self promotionPages, surely.
Edit: BTW, anyone with a helicopter and an appropriate licence* can fly through central London low (ish) level day or night.
Daytime, a private pilot's licence (PPL will do. Night, PPL and a night rating is needed.
Is this true.
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Former FAA administrator Michael Whitaker, who still had several years left in his term, resigned on Trump's inauguration day. A big reason why? Elon Musk pu...youtube.com
He mentioned Dwarfs as well.Trump: its all the fault of disabled people
Also during Trump’s first term, in 2019, the FAA announced “a pilot program to help prepare people with disabilities for careers in air traffic operations,” saying that “a key focus for the FAA’s Office of Civil Rights is to identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.” The FAA continued to promote the pilot program in the latter half of 2020, near the end of Trump’s first term.
The hiring of people with targeted disabilities is a small fraction of overall FAA hiring: The agency’s annual goal for hiring people with targeted disabilities has generally been in the vicinity of 2%. In the 2016 fiscal year under then-President Barack Obama, for example, the FAA said it had exceeded a 2.33% goal by hiring 89 people with targeted disabilities out of 3,373 total hires, a rate of about 2.64%.
The FAA’s 2019 and 2020 descriptions of the program emphasized that people with disabilities would not be hired for jobs for which they weren’t capable. The FAA wrote in 2019 that “the candidates in this program will receive the same rigorous consideration in terms of aptitude, medical and security qualifications as those individuals considered for a standard public opening for air traffic controller jobs.”
That’s similar to what the Biden-era FAA told Fox News for the 2024 article Trump cited: “The FAA employs tens of thousands of people for a wide range of positions, from administrative roles to oversight and execution of critical safety functions. Like many large employers, the agency proactively seeks qualified candidates from as many sources as possible, all of whom must meet rigorous qualifications that of course will vary by position.”
Yes, as there were other better qualified candidates who were blocked by the policyIs putting a (near) octogenarian, sub-intelligent narcissist with obvious cognitive decline considered a "diversity hire"?