Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."

• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pour one out for the poor fella who finally got his turn to poop just before this happened.

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• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Of course, but it should be the 2-4 people who are actively going somewhere / in the bathroom, everyone else should have their seatbelt on.

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And airplanes shouldn’t be in each other’s airspace

    I don’t know what you’re trying to say, the airplanes nearly running into each other is the clear problem

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    • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Check out John Oliver’s take on air traffic control on LWT

      I was a kid when Reagan fired all the striking air traffic controllers. It turns out it takes a long time to train them, so we haven’t recovered from that one incident. It also means all ATCs are overworked, still underpaid and using outdated hardware and methods.

      Air travel was screwed even before Trump defunded the FAA.

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      • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fair, but it has gotten very noticably worse based on Trump’s deregulation catching up on the aircrafts and the latest round of forcing out air traffic control

        Also, I didn’t know you could just say “all pronouns”. I like that a lot, I’m really uncomfortable putting myself in boxes and that describes my preferences very succinctly

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    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are things you can control and things you can’t. I can’t keep the planes out of each other’s airspace, but I can keep my seat belt on.

      That would be more insightful if I wasn’t a pilot…

      Tap for spoiler

      I’m not.

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      • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, that’ll keep you from getting slammed on the ceiling…in a situation that should never, ever happen. Which I’d over a midair collision, in which case you’re just screwed no matter what you do

        I don’t blame the pilot either, they did their job properly. It was the military that failed to coordinate with the civilian air control tower, which also could have been avoided if the civilian tower had radar

        What should you do? Demand better. Not think “I would have been fine, they must’ve been stupid”

        You can’t protect against every freak event, what you can do is be one drop in the wave that demands competence from our government

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• yamper@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  because of a few exception cases this is never going to work

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At any time, you can expect at least 2-6 people out of their seats if the fasten seatbelts sign isn’t on. But I don’t really care about that part, shit happens

    Planes shouldn’t be dodging each other in the first place… That’s the actual problem here. I don’t blame the pilot either, they avoided a collision, so as far as I’m concerned they did what they had to do

    The situation itself never should have happened

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    • yamper@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i dont even know what youre trying to state or argue. seatbelts should be worn by all seated passengers at all times to mitigate risk of injury in case something that shouldn’t happen does end up happening. obviously there are exceptions like when people need to piss and shit.

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      • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No duh. I don’t care if a few people got slammed into the ceiling

        I care that two planes almost collided and killed everyone

        Why even consider the seat belts? They’re not the real issue here

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