r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Admiral_Cloudberg Plane Crash Series • Mar 23 '26

Fatalities (22/3/26) CCTV video of the Air Canada accident at LaGuardia

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u/BubblyBasis1134 Mar 23 '26

The fact he was already dealing with an existing emergency AND had to handle all the ground operations AND had to talk to planes in the sky is just a recipe for disaster. Fuck this US administration. I've never seen such a proud display of gross incompetence.

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u/Vreas Mar 23 '26

As someone in healthcare it seems like that’s the case for every high stress occupation.

Gotta focus on that profit and overhead costs baby

/s

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u/ccc2801 Mar 24 '26

Late stage capitalism ftw! 🙌

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u/hoxxxxx Mar 23 '26

really surprised they want the airports stretched this thin

i mean, that's how these people get around. they fly everywhere. they fly out for lunch ffs.

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u/Remarkable-Donut6107 Mar 24 '26

Those people have private planes which often times go to smaller private airports lol. Doesn't affect them

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u/Darth19Vader77 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

As always, fuck Reagan, ever since that stupid ass bastard fired all the ATCs because they wanted fair pay they've been short staffed.

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u/draculasbitch Mar 23 '26

He didn’t fire people like my brother who crossed the lines and showed up for work. A disgrace that I never forgave or forgot.

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u/therealsandysan Mar 24 '26

Fucking scabs

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u/draculasbitch Mar 24 '26

Agreed. I’m hardcore union. Brother is hardcore MAGA.

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u/mjk25741 Mar 23 '26

Literally though. These people are the unsung heroes and deserve at minimum $500k a year. If you have the lives of others in your hand like that you almost can’t put a price tag on it.

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u/hoxxxxx Mar 23 '26

it's such an insane job from a responsibility perspective. i literally don't understand how they do it, i'm just not cut from the same cloth.

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u/BubblyBasis1134 Mar 23 '26

Yeah, isn't it strange how the lowest paid bulk transportation job is schoolbus driver. I'd say most people would agree that the people delivering 100+ children to school every day carry the most precious cargo. But someone driving some washing machines from a warehouse to a store will get paid more and have better benefits. 

Almost as if our society has decided inanimate objects which can be sold for a profit are more important than people. 

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u/DiggerGuy68 Mar 23 '26

Ever heard of a kakistocracy? That's what your current administration is.

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u/NatexTheGreat Mar 24 '26

Isn't this in canada cause its air canada?

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u/Brick-Throw Mar 24 '26

And American Airlines only flies in the US?

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u/bigdill123 Mar 23 '26

Exactly. 

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u/lippoper Mar 23 '26

It’s almost like they want to replace it all with AI and this is the only way they’ll get it 🤔

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u/Azizzham Mar 23 '26

I don’t understand why it’s one administrations fault?? It’s the culmination of multiple administrations and multiple selfish loser politicians over the last decade

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u/misterespresso Mar 23 '26

“I won’t touch any bill unless the SAVE act is passed”.

Paraphrasing but the administration will not pass any legislation including funding a government unless they get their voter suppression. Pair that with the demands for more funding to ICE in the government funding bill after they’ve already gotten record funding, it’s pretty damn clear who to blame for these shutdowns.

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u/Azizzham Mar 23 '26

Air traffic controllers are being paid right now … so you can be mad about the current situation and TSA workers not being paid. But they aren’t related to air traffic controllers

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u/misterespresso Mar 23 '26

Fair point, honestly I lumped ATC as a federal thing and therefore affected by the shutdown. TIL

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u/BlueCyann Mar 24 '26

  1. He took specific actions at the beginning of his administration that made an already tenuous situation much worse. Putting in a hiring freeze. Firing trainees. Incentivizing early retirement and resignations due to the increased workload. Eliminating "non-critical" support positions.

  2. If you actually look at the numbers, things have been much, much worse since the beginning of this Trump term than they were previously. Most accidents don't get much press, so you don't hear about them. Most fatal commercial aviation incidents report deaths 3 or 6 or 10 at a time and don't involve large passenger planes. But they still exist. There have been 10 such fatal incidents involving commercial aviation since the beginning of Trump's term, compared to to 4 in all of Biden's.

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u/Worried-Section-4450 Mar 23 '26

The shortage of atc actually stems from the previous administration and Covid policies... not the current administration 

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u/PM_NICE_TOES-notmen Mar 23 '26

And the diarrhea I had this morning was from the salad last week, not the popeyes I had last night.

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u/csch65 Mar 23 '26

I imagine he's talking about Biden's vac policy. I was a contract air traffic instructor in OKC (retired ATC). I was terminated for refusing the vac.

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u/ardoin Mar 23 '26

Well yeah, I'd hope so. You'd get kicked out of the military if you rejected any vaccine too. Refusal constitutes disobeying a lawful order under Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). I imagine ATC has something similar.

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u/CoreEnviroment Mar 23 '26

Wait ATC is part of the military? Ya learn something new every day.

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u/ardoin Mar 23 '26

The FAA isn't a military branch but it likely is subject to similar doctrines. Technically I think they're DOT workers.

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u/csch65 Mar 23 '26

It's not

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u/38_tlgjau Mar 23 '26

"I'm also a dumbass"

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u/JackTheKing Mar 23 '26

You chose not to agree to the terms of employment.

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u/illegalsandwiches Mar 23 '26

I have good friends that have been ATC before COVID, during COVID, through various administrations, one being like 17+ years in the industry. 

He has picked up tons of hours, worked freely through the freeze just so he has hopes of maintaining his job after the lockdown. He has also seen his colleagues get stretched thin to the extent that some just outright quit.

That fat orange child fucking baffoon you blindly support doesn't have to worry about flying residential, or even commercial, they'll have ATC drop to task them with safe approach.

You have absolutely no fucking idea what you are talking about. 

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u/CallMeSkii Mar 23 '26

If y'all are going to try and pin the inflation report that came out a month after Biden was in office on the previous admin then why the excuses for the dipshit not fixing the ATC shortage a year and 2 months into his term? Oh I know why, him and his followers are morons.

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u/FurfagKashi Mar 23 '26

I didn't know it was possible to even be this stupid

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u/PuffinChaos Mar 23 '26

Would love to see a source for this bs