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Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee

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Andy1
Andy1

Immediately politicizing tragedies happens every time here on PPP! Let’s make a new rule to stop it. Who is signing up for that?

gobills404
gobills404

If you’re immediate reaction to a tragedy is to try and politicize it you’re a worthless piece of trash. Period.

Roundybout
Roundybout

We’re simply holding your despicable goon accountable for trying to gut the federal government.   Hire more ATC, immediately reinstate the aviation safety committee, and boost federal fundin

4th&long Veteran

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So trump fires everyone at the faa safety board. Pressures everyone else to quit, creates nothing but chaos, an accident happens. What's he do? Blame dei to try and cover his ass for the mess he made. Is it a coincidence that the worst aviation accident in over 20 years happened less than 2 weeks into his term? Nice try trump, not going to work. 

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46 minutes ago, 4th&long said:

So trump fires everyone at the faa safety board. 

 

For those not familiar with this industry, this is quite misleading.

There are scores of safety groups in both the industry and the FAA, and constant contact between them.

Lots of them.

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2 hours ago, sherpa said:

 

For those not familiar with this industry, this is quite misleading.

There are scores of safety groups in both the industry and the FAA, and constant contact between them.

Lots of them.

 

Late addition.

I had never heard of this committee so I looked up it's charter, member and policies.

It did not report to the FAA, as suggested by another poster above.

It was a security group formed after the Pan Am explosion over Lockerbie in 1988.

It met four times per year, and advised the TSA.

Again, nothing to do with the FAA, and absolutely nothing to do with this midair.

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9 minutes ago, sherpa said:

 

Late addition.

I had never heard of this committee so I looked up it's charter, member and policies.

It did not report to the FAA, as suggested by another poster above.

It was a security group formed after the Pan Am explosion over Lockerbie in 1988.

It met four times per year, and advised the TSA.

Again, nothing to do with the FAA, and absolutely nothing to do with this midair.

Sherpa, I don't appreciate you trying to muddy the waters using facts. 

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sherpa Veteran

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6 hours ago, 4th&long said:

So trump fires everyone at the faa safety board. Pressures everyone else to quit, creates nothing but chaos, an accident happens. What's he do? Blame dei to try and cover his ass for the mess he made. Is it a coincidence that the worst aviation accident in over 20 years happened less than 2 weeks into his term? Nice try trump, not going to work. 

 

Just incredibly stupid.

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13 hours ago, gobills404 said:

I’m literally a millionaire go cry some more

Good for you!

Now let's come up with a term for people who have real serious money. I mean, with inflation - and particularly home values and 401k's going up almost exponentially - there's a bunch of millionaires everywhere you look.

Billionaire is a whole different league. It's very serious money.

But what about the comfortably rich, don't really need to work a day in their life if they don't want to? Even "multi-millionaire" is no good anymore. What, that's 1 ... 2 ... multi. That's not f-you money.

Ten million? Maybe that should be the new million.

But what's the term for ten-millionaire? We need one. Now.

Joe Ferguson forever All Pro

Joe Ferguson forever

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On 1/29/2025 at 10:50 PM, gobills404 said:

If you’re immediate reaction to a tragedy is to try and politicize it you’re a worthless piece of trash. Period.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-facing-two-crises-in-his-second-week-spreads-the-blame-around-55fe36d9

20 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Good for you!

Now let's come up with a term for people who have real serious money. I mean, with inflation - and particularly home values and 401k's going up almost exponentially - there's a bunch of millionaires everywhere you look.

Billionaire is a whole different league. It's very serious money.

But what about the comfortably rich, don't really need to work a day in their life if they don't want to? Even "multi-millionaire" is no good anymore. What, that's 1 ... 2 ... multi. That's not f-you money.

Ten million? Maybe that should be the new million.

But what's the term for ten-millionaire? We need one. Now.

$1.17  mil puts one in the top 5%.  As far as house prices, there are many people mortgaged to the teeth.  But yes, $11 mil puts you in the top 1%

https://www.kiplinger.com/personal-finance/605075/are-you-rich

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45 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

Here's another pilot's opinion.  Ya know what they say about opinions...

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/31/politics/video/trump-press-conference-plane-collision-les-abend-digvid

 

I can't believe this guy showed up again.

Background.

I think Trump's comments were stupid and unnecessary, and certainly not germane to this accident.

But.........I am well aware of this Les Abend guy.

 

He wrote for years for "Flying Magazine," and did so as an airline pilot writing for small airplane people as a civilian background guy who simply lived the title. Most airline guys don't. He is one of those guys that probably has "Captain" prior to his name on his checks.

 

Just a goof. I know all about him. He was junior to me at the same airline and same base, same airplane, the 777.

 

CNN used him routinely as an "expert" after Malaysia 370 was lost.

He would be on there nightly, offering his views.

It was embarrassing to us.

He was a civilian background guy who stated nonsense about his views on military night formation flying, which were preposterous.

He stated things about the ACARS system, which is a data link reporting system that would have easily solved this if Malaysia had paid for it.

The problem was that he was completely wrong, to the point that on our union website, the check captain that certified me as a 777 captain exposed him as an idiot and told him to stop, or at least shut up.

 

Loves the camera. Probably wants his first name changed to "captain."

Trump says really stupid stuff, but this guy is a total goof.

Probably one of those guys that wore his uniform on a trip to the local convenience store.

 

I would take a bet that on his gravestone he is going to have "Captain" inscribed before his name.

Makes the rest of us cringe.

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8 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:

 

This is one of the rare times that NC is actually right.  trump has said campaigning that he wanted to hire more ATC. 

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6 minutes ago, daz28 said:

This is one of the rare times that NC is actually right.  trump has said campaigning that he wanted to hire more ATC. 

 

Very good.

I opine that although politically aimed people will disagree with this, those of us that are familiar with the system,  including the people directly hired into it, will totally agree.

The FAA has become a social experiment.

Still functional, but undeniably driven, in recruitment and promotion, by DEI and quotas.

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