Another day, another plane crash

Plane went down near a mall in Philly

Something about multiple casualties, a house on fire.. we'll see :(

It dove directly into the mall, it's unknown what the cause was or if it was intentional like that one passenger plane a decade ago.

Well trumps administration emailed all of the FAA people and told them to quit their job . Guess this is what happens

When they said a small plane I was expecting it to be a Cesna or something, not a Learjet.

SonyMichel posted...

Well trumps administration emailed all of the FAA people and told them to quit their job . Guess this is what happens

You mean it's not because the pilot was black or gay? I can't believe Trump would lie to us. /s

SonyMichel posted...

Well trumps administration emailed all of the FAA people and told them to quit their job . Guess this is what happens

yep

yet trump will blame biden or dei again

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f95c049e.jpg

It's actually fucking incredible how fast he's destroying the country.

HelIWithoutSin posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f95c049e.jpg

this never wouldve happened if they were flying a Whitehawk helicopter

Yellow posted...

It's actually fucking incredible how fast he's destroying the country.

To be fair, it's unlikely that anything Trump has done to date was actually responsible for these crashes. They will, in fairly short order, almost certainly increase the number of incidents by exacerbating the staffing difficulties and regulatory deficiencies that have led to these ones happening, but these have been long-standing issues and there hasn't actually been enough time for the impact of Trump's insanity to be felt.

The sheer brazenness of his immediate response being "I bet somebody was black and that's why the plane crashed," though, is pretty alarming. Like no evidence whatsoever that diversity was even involved at all, let alone responsible, but he still felt that was the best public statement he could make on the matter. Unfortunately, it's not exactly news that Trump is just desperate to say whatever he thinks his cultists want to hear, and anyone who's ever going to see a problem with that already knows it, so it's not like even this overt "I don't know why this plane crashed, but I want you all to help me find a minority to blame" is going to wake anyone up.

rjsilverthorn posted...

When they said a small plane I was expecting it to be a Cesna or something, not a Learjet.

Cessna is a manufacturer, just like Learjet. Different models have different capabilities and a Learjet 55 is similar to the Cessna Citation VII. Both are twin jet engine business jets with 8-10 passenger capacity and about 2400 mile range.

People, the plane was on fire and it crashed into the ground like a missile.

adjl posted...

To be fair, it's unlikely that anything Trump has done to date was actually responsible for these crashes. They will, in fairly short order, almost certainly increase the number of incidents by exacerbating the staffing difficulties and regulatory deficiencies that have led to these ones happening, but these have been long-standing issues and there hasn't actually been enough time for the impact of Trump's insanity to be felt.

The sheer brazenness of his immediate response being "I bet somebody was black and that's why the plane crashed," though, is pretty alarming. Like no evidence whatsoever that diversity was even involved at all, let alone responsible, but he still felt that was the best public statement he could make on the matter. Unfortunately, it's not exactly news that Trump is just desperate to say whatever he thinks his cultists want to hear, and anyone who's ever going to see a problem with that already knows it, so it's not like even this overt "I don't know why this plane crashed, but I want you all to help me find a minority to blame" is going to wake anyone up.

Elon Musk was fined by the FAA multiple times for violating laws put there to keep people safe. Once he bought Trump the 2024 election, one of the first things he did was threaten the head of the FAA. As soon as Trump became president, the FAA was gutted.

You can keep trying to defend Trump as much as you want, but the fault lies partially on him. He could have left it alone and ignored Elon Fuck, since the idiot has no use anymore after he bought the presidency for Trump. Bet you didn't see the news yesterday that Elon Fuck's employees were caught installing hard drives on government computers containing personal information on citizens.

The other part is how no one wants to fucking pay flight staff. No one wants to do the jobs because they're not being paid a living wage, and because of that, no one is entering the profession. That leaves the people who do the job overworked, tired, and underpaid.

NeoSioType posted...

People, the plane was on fire and it crashed into the ground like a missile.

Don't call it a missile, Trump will call it an act of war by Mexico.

willythemailboy posted...

Cessna is a manufacturer, just like Learjet. Different models have different capabilities and a Learjet 55 is similar to the Cessna Citation VII. Both are twin jet engine business jets with 8-10 passenger capacity and about 2400 mile range.

I am aware, my point was more that usually when someone says small plane they are referring to a prop plane, not a business jet.

KingInBlack posted...

You can keep trying to defend Trump as much as you want, but the fault lies partially on him.

For these two crashes? Not really. The airline industry was in a messy state already when he took over (as you say, overworked, underpaid, etc.), and the things he's done so far haven't had time to really be blamed for that.

He has, however, committed to speedrunning the rest of it into the ground, including firing the head of the FAA as you mentioned (while simultaneously whining about government resources and authority being "weaponized against political opponents," because his adherents are too blind to notice obvious hypocrisy). His current and planned actions will 100% be making the issue worse, and he's going to just keep hiding behind complaints about DEI and pushing conspiracy theories to avoid admitting that he might have done anything wrong. Is what he do.

Trust me, I'm with you. This presidency is shaping up to be an unmitigated disaster. It just probably didn't actually play a role in a crash that happened a week after it began that can mostly be blamed on deeper systemic issues from multiple previous administrations (though I will say that I haven't dug into how much Trump's first presidency might have had to do with it and it's very possible some choices he made then played a role).

KingInBlack posted...

Bet you didn't see the news yesterday that Elon f***'s employees were caught installing hard drives on government computers containing personal information on citizens.

I didn't, but I'm also not surprised. The guy's been publicly admitting to blackmailing politicians with their Twitter DMs. He's obviously not above exploiting his government connections to get away with serious crimes.

This thread is a pretty good example of why Fandom was right to ban politics on the site.

I'm out

What about when the gonzaga mens jet almost got taken out on the run way
There been too many close calls leading up to now. Im not surprised

Iv officially retired from flying this past January. Was my 8th and last trip to vegas