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More alarmingly, the laser weapon was deployed before the FAA actually shut down the airspace: https://apnews.com/article/faa-el-paso-texas-air-space-closed-1f
by Jordan-117 8mo ago
More alarmingly, the laser weapon was deployed before the FAA actually shut down the airspace:
https://apnews.com/article/faa-el-paso-texas-air-space-closed-1f774bdfd46f5986ff0e7003df709caa https://apnews.com/article/faa-el-paso-texas-air-space-close...
I'd say these trigger-happy clowns chasing tough-guy optics are going to get innocent people killed, but then they already have -- multiple times.
- mlinhares 8mo agoYeah, a bit late for that. But this would likely kill more at once than they've had before, so would land a new record.
- throwaway5752 8mo ago[flagged]
- ExpertAdvisor01 8mo agoHave you even read the investigation?
- rogerrogerr 8mo agoYou probably should forget that, because it isn’t true. There’s no credible link between FAA staffing cuts and the DCA midair. That was a long-standing set of bad routes that was going to kill someone eventually.
- deleted 8mo ago[deleted]
- throwaway5752 8mo agoIt was a system in a critical state and the freeze and well telegraphed upcoming layoffs led to a controller covering two roles and work done by supporting staff. This pushed the system over the edge. Then they tried to baselessly blame DEI, then they tried to shift blame to the controller. The collision was January 29. On Jan 20, a hiring freeze was hastily rolled out including the FAA. They were in the process of laying off staff, which was finalized in February with 400 probationary staff. These were largely rolled back that year after the impact to the civil aviation system, including substantially contributing to the deaths of these 67 people. The NIST report was produced under pressure. I stand by what I wrote. They threw an overloaded system into chaos with little care for the consequences and this was one of the results. DOGE was working hand in hand with then new administration the entire time.
- ExpertAdvisor01 8mo agoYou are delusional
- rogerrogerr 8mo agoI’m a pilot. The controller handed off separation to the helicopter the moment they called traffic in sight. You could have had a dozen controllers in the tower and this still would have happened. You list some facts, but they are not connected to the incident in a causal way.
- ExpertAdvisor01 8mo agoPrivate or commercial pilot ?
- rogerrogerr 8mo agoCommercial
- throwaway5752 8mo ago"causal way" is the key part. I did list facts. And I agree with your causal analysis. I simply disagree with your interpretation of the degree to which the contributing factors we responsible. This is not my words as someone on the internet, this is the NTSB report's contributing factors. If a shipping company immediately changed policy to force drivers to work 18 hours a day and 7 days a week, then it would be a pretty poor analysis to chalk all the resulting accidents up to driver error. Driver error would be the actual cause, the negligent policy change would be a proximate cause. I respect your expertise in the area as a pilot but I will stand by what I have said. And I respectfully have said all I have to say on the matter.
- outside1234 8mo agoHave you not seen the cowboy hat that she wears tho?
- wahnfrieden 8mo ago[flagged]
- selimthegrim 8mo agoWas the party balloon made in China?
- hulitu 8mo agoIs there any party baloon made in the USA ?
- bakies 8mo agowho did the news cite? the liar admin?
- foxyv 8mo ago> "The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory."
- hypeatei 8mo agoRemember, this is the same side that espoused "meritocracy" as their number one virtue. Instead, we got a cabinet full of loyalists and fascists that decided doing joint missions between the DoD and Border Patrol was a good idea. Firing lasers at party balloons in American cities, everyone else be damned. OPSEC is clear.
- hshdhdhj4444 8mo agoTo be fair, the current version of the party is nothing like the version of the party from even a decade ago. Whats disturbing is how so many people on that side have completely abandoned everything they ever said about their principles and values.
- ajross 8mo agoEven more alarmingly, a US cabinet secretary came out with a public statement about the incident that was a complete fabrication (labelling it a "cartel drone incursion"), has issued no retraction, and no one seems to care. (Less alarmingly but more personal: my personal prediction to this effect, expressing distrust about statements like this in real time, got flagged right here on HN because apparently our leaders lying to our faces about news relevant to our community is "politics" and unseemly to discuss.)
- kelipso 8mo ago[flagged]
- gmerc 8mo agoYou didn't expect Kegsbreath to actually tell the truth?
- splatter9859 8mo agoIs he even capable of telling the truth?
- sokka_h2otribe 8mo agoThe problem with that attitude is it normalizes it, which is extra scary for military
- whattheheckheck 8mo agoHegseths personal lawyers worked at a law firm that was founded by epsteins long time personal lawyer.
- NedF 8mo ago[dead]
- venusenvy47 8mo agoReading between the lines, it seems like the FAA shutdown the airspace to make public the fact that the DoD wasn't cooperating with the FAA.