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The FACTS of the RIA CRASH are becoming CLEAR... the CAUSE?...the CORRUPT and INCOMPETENT ULTRA Liberal Democrat Party !
Today 11:05 am
The statistics you posted (above) appear to be MOSTLY talking about incidents "ON or near the Ground"... The best I can see, there is NOTHING that talks about near misses "in flight"... I'm still looking for actual statistics..."Blackvegetable » Today, 8:35 am » wrote: ↑ https://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/statistics
Post the annual totals for 2019 and 2024.
However, a number of articles REPEATEDLY discuss the "HIGH RATE of in flight near misses", and the inadequate staffing of "air traffic controllers" that is the root cause... as follows"
"The deadly air collision that killed 67 people in Washington, DC Wednesday night came amid an air traffic control staffing crisis and alarmingly high rates of near-misses on airport runaways. One air traffic controller had been doing the job of two people when an American Airlines plane smashed into an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, according to Federal Aviation Administration documents obtained by The New York Times. It wasn’t a fluke: The FAA has had air traffic control staffing issues since pandemic-era mass layoffs in 2020 from which it has yet to recover. In 2023, the Department of Transportation revealed that a whopping 77% of critical air traffic control facilities were understaffed."
https://nypost.com/2025/01/30/us-news/a ... shortages/