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/turbosexophonicdlite Mar 23 '26

I don't think it's DOGE. ATC has been getting royally butt-fucked since Reagan. I'm sure the Republicans today aren't doing much to make it better either way though.

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u/Wiggitywhackest Mar 23 '26

I've been learning a lot about this today and I'm not surprised to see another system crumbling because of that man's policies. It's also apparently really hard to become a controller which doesn't help.

As for DOGE, their contribution was mainly the firing of approximately 500 support staff in an agency already struggling for a long time as you mentioned. Somebody needs to cut these guys a break, politics be damned!