It Has Begun

… I am sure I know what they will be doing. And rightfully so.

 

Incredible. The white house deleted this:

Edit: ope, it's back. Guess I'll chalk it up to a technical glitch



Wonder why...

Also this morning:

 

Would you have preferred they collided?

 

News Alert: Trump cures cancer!!!!

Gene Wright: Seeee, he panders to Big Pharma!!!

 

Near misses are still a failure. Don't tell me you wouldn't be freaking out about it if Biden had begun gutting the FAA and all this stuff started happening

 

Airport Management is apparently not an area that the Clown is particularly well suited for, and definitely not able to discuss at any cerebral level above the Snoopy VS. Red Baron phase of Aeronautics. So, I make allowances.

That is just the kind of fellow I am.

 

This stuff didn't just start happening this term . . . There have been 30 near misses at Reagan in the past.

The media is just slinging every pile of old dung at the wall to see what takes the longest to slide to the floor.

 

Near misses are not new, the crashes are

 

Let the party begin. If you want to skip a little fluff, just fast forward to 1:50 into the vid.

 

Preemptively throwing out there that if she matches some but not all of the already public lists she loses a lot of credibility

 

In what world does anything you say relate to the actual facts? Let's read what REALLY happened. Hint: It has nothing to do with Trump, cost-cutting measures, the Tooth Fairy or the price of tea in China. Dude, ever since President Trump was elected, your TDS has gone off the charts.

NTSB blames Southwest Chicago near miss on Flexjet crew 'failure' to listen to air traffic control

The Flexjet crossed the Chicago runway as a Southwest plane was landing

February 26, 2025

The harrowing near-miss between a Southwest Airlines plane and a private jet at a Chicago airport was a failure of the private jet crew to listen to air traffic control instructions, according to National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy.

Homendy made the statement during a Wednesday morning appearance on "Fox & Friends," saying the Flexjet crew had been instructed to "line up and wait and hold short of runway 31C, which Southwest was landing on, and they failed to do so."

Homendy noted, however, that the NTSB still has to conduct its investigation before coming to any final conclusions or taking any punitive action against the Flexjet crew.

"There's a lot of information we still have to collect. We want to know what was going on in the cockpit of that airplane," Homendy said. "We will collect air traffic control communications. We have asked for the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from Flexjet."

President Donald Trump weighed in on the near crash on social media Wednesday, suggesting the Flexjet pilots may have been "sleeping."

"GREAT JOB BY THE SOUTHWEST PILOTS IN CHICAGO. A NEARLY TRAGIC CLOSE CALL. PERHAPS SUSPEND THE PILOTS LICENSE OF THE OTHER PLANE, WHO MUST HAVE BEEN "SLEEPING!" he wrote on Truth Social.

Tuesday's near-miss occurred when the Flexjet crossed the runway where a Southwest plane was coming in for landing. The Southwest craft had already touched down, but pilots observed the Flexjet and quickly took off once again to avoid a collision.

Duffy says the Flexjet crew may have their licenses revoked on Tuesday.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a preliminary statement that the "business jet entered the runway without authorization." The agency, as well as the NTSB, said they are investigating the incident.

"We are aware of the occurrence today in Chicago," a Flexjet spokesperson said in a statement. "Flexjet adheres to the highest safety standards and we are conducting a thorough investigation. Any action to rectify and ensure the highest safety standards will be taken."

Homendy emphasized that Americans should remain confident that air travel is still the safest means of transportation.

The incident in Chicago comes after a series of aviation disasters across the country, several of them fatal.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ramped up scrutiny on America's air travel systems after a helicopter collided with a commercial airliner over Washington, D.C., killing more than 60 people.

Less than 48 hours later, a medical ambulance flight crashed in Philadelphia, leaving seven people dead.

Last week, two small planes collided midair at a regional airport in Arizona, killing two people.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ntsb-bla...exjet-crew-failure-listen-air-traffic-control

 

Yes, I said agreed earlier near misses are common. See these 3 at the bottom of your article? Not so common

 

When the economy crashes, it didn't come from nowhere. If I'm a bit more on edge than normal, you could attribute it to putting a horse back in the hospital.



For the uninitiated:

 

So which is better? The status quo? Keep plodding along with the black cloud of crippling debt hanging over us awaiting the inevitable conclusion? Or rather someone with the cajones to try to do something about it? Fact is, I am fully aware that some of these tariffs will cause me to lose money on some upcoming bidwork that I have on the books... And you know what? I am prepared to live with that if it means my kids can grow up in an America where they can prosper and flourish. So keep hacking away Mister Musk. I am counting on you.

 

Ditto here . . . pay no attention to the politically-motivated ramblings of those with little / no skin in the game.

 

See, I see these obviously destructive actions as slamming the gas pedal towards an entirely preventable conclusion.

 

Funny, ain't it, how the liberal perspective causes you to turn a blind eye to what conservatives view as slamming the gas pedal towards an entirely preventable conclusion?

 

Really, I see maintaining the same course as the bankruptcy of the country.