I’m sure DCA staying open has 100% to do with all of the politicians not wanting to have to fly into Dulles and then drive (be driven) into DC... all of a 30 minute drive likely driven by a staffer anyway.

He will find someone still left over from the Biden admin that he can blame.  He’s doing it with Pete and the flight crash.

Bring it on. Every extra $50/month the die-hard MAGA’s have to spend on gas is $50 they can’t spend on Elon’s/Trump’s/Milania’s/Pastor Bob’s bitcoin scheme. 

I’m a local. Some congress critter from flyover country is already trying to rename Dulles (IAD) to Trump.

Your wording is reprehensible, grow up.

Before he was POTUS, Reagan was a Union president, of the Screen Actors Guild, so of course MAGA would think he’s a commie.

- Donald Trump on what the helicopter should have done.

I engage with ATC personnel dozens of times a year. While I don’t fly myself anymore, I ride right seat in a GA aircraft probably 100 hours/year, nearly always IFR, which means a lot of communication. On the ground, I design airport projects which interface with ATC rules, and often often have controllers as part of…

Weren’t those troubles started by Reagan in the first place? Disband them fully then and watch, let the planes themselves figure it out. Once the bodies start piling on, maybe Elon’s cronies will start to see that he isn’t as smart as he thinks he is.

Well American Airlines has a trans ticket agent in LA, need we say more, investigation over !!/s

Collatoral personnel damange is a problem, but the thought of Trump and Musk flying together on a hastily assembled aircraft.... I mean, I see some upside potential. 

No matter what actually happened, I have zero faith we will get the true story with the Liar in Chief in the WH. Even if it’s undeniable the BH was someplace it should not have been, ATC will definitely be blamed a and used as an excuse to blame democrats and gut/privatize another government agency.

Close National? Not a chance. You realize it’s how most of congress gets to work? Dulles is way out there. Now maybe it just becomes a private airport for congress and billionaires, but never close.

Thank God President Passenger Princess felt the need to chime in with a conspiracy theory.

But non-political government agencies like the FAA definitely need to have their budgets cut, right?

Speculation is that he was focused on another aircraft that he thought was the aircraft he was supposed to be avoiding as the crash aircraft was on a different approach than most approaches.

I don’t know if this crash will get politicized, but my big fear is that the Trump folks will use the news coverage of this tragedy as cover to do all kinds of evil shit behind the scenes and hope that the media don’t have the bandwidth to expose it. For example, don’t miss out on their just announced plans to…

And as we speak, trump froze all new air traffic controller hires. And there was already a shortage. This is what electing a dumbass with a whole cadre of religious nutters ( project 2025) gets us. 

You joke, but literally a week ago Trump gutted a key airline safety committee.

Im assuming the heli was in the wrong and flying through the literal glideslope for landing on that runway.  Not sure on the rules for that especially it being a military flight.