A passenger jet has collided with a helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.

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    22 hours ago

    Odds that this has anything to do with the government falling apart?

    ATC are fed employees, this happened at the worst-named airport in DC …

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      21 hours ago

      Possible but probably not. ATC have been understaffed and overworked for years and this is the inevitable result.

      Combine that with a military that has historically always done whatever the fuck it… err, support the troops and thank you for your service. Can I have my salmon tossed under the broiler please?

      But yeah. This is less a consequence of trump and more a consequence of our fundamentally broken culture and government that predates him.

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          21 hours ago

          I’mma let you in on a secret:

          The CEO doesn’t do shit. ANYWHERE.

          This is going to have very big ramifications even medium term. But the work culture and lack of personnel were already a major problem long before… last week. At most, trump accelerated this.

          Now, the horrific response to this is all fuckface.

          As an aside: it is REALLY obnoxious to post two giant images as a reply.

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          14 hours ago

          Literally impossible for this to result in that crash

          I know we want to associate everything bad with the new admin but this was just regular old american calpitalist incompetence

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      21 hours ago

      My friend is an ATC and I saw him last week. From my conversations with him they haven’t been hit with Trump shenanigans…yet