Gates9"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."
Don’t planes have seatbelts? How did so many people manage to fly out of their seats?
Also friendly reminder to everybody that planes are still the safest mode of transportation by a significant margin
AeonFelisThey have seatbelts, but for the most of the flight they are unused - you only need to buckle in during takeoff, landing, and if when encountering turbulence.
I guess there wasn’t enough time to get all the passengers to fasten their seatbelts before the collision?
Where I fly they also always advise to remain fastener regardless of no immediate warnigs. Exactly for situations like this - and others.
theneverfoxYeah, but people are still going to be using the bathrooms and such, even if you assume everyone actually obeys the rules
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.
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
Uriel238 [all pronouns]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 It also means all ATCs are overworked, still underpaid and using outdated hardware and methods.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.
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
TBH I was in theater as a kid and TTRPGs as a teen and young adult, so it was super easy to get comfortable whatever pronouns suited my character. And yeah, embraced my enby status as I got past my forties.
I can’t argue with that. I think we’re on the same page
On pronouns… Honestly I just don’t want to be called it. Anything else, call me what feels natural. I feel shackled, I just want to be who I am at any given time without pretending or forcing myself to meet gender expectations
I feel like I should’ve been a theatre kid, but they were mean to me so I did sports, my teammates always had my back