Mastodawn

This poor person has to live with this for the rest of their life, an issue that likely wouldn’t have occurred if we treated air traffic control jobs as the high risk jobs they are. We have got to stop short staffing high risk roles like this.
https://www.jalopnik.com/2129924/laguardia-lone-air-traffic-controller-ground-air-space/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox-Jalopnik&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1774280822

'I Messed Up' LaGuardia Air Traffic Controller Was Juggling Sky And Ground Traffic By Himself Right Before Deadly Crash With Firetruck

I cannot imagine trying to deal with all of this, I'll tell you what.

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rapaz Mar 23

@Ashedryden this poor controller was handling ground traffic, air traffic and another fucking emergency before this one happened. LGA was so busy that they didn't even have a free gate for the previous emergency, but they had just this one person handling all of this by himself. despicable mismanagement

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GhostOnTheHalfShell

@kageRapaz @Ashedryden

So in other words, the chronic underfunding and starvation and emotional abuse of air traffic controller finally cracked.

I think there are a lot of other small scale mistakes that go on all the time with private jets although I think sometimes the pilots are major fuck ups.

I can’t imagine doing ATC