✈️ Another fatal crash in the US allegedly caused by ATC An 🇨🇦 Air Canada plane crashed into a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport (LGA), two pilots died, but luckily most people survived
Just a week ago at Newark Liberty Airport, another one of New York City's main airports, two aircraft almost collided: an Alaska Airlines flight was told to immediately do a go-around (abort landing) after almost crashing into a FedEx plane that was landing at an intersecting runway
And just a year ago in Washington D.C., an American Airlines plane crashed into a Black Hawk helicopter killing all 64 people on board the plane and all 3 soldiers in the helicopter. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that the ATC was hindered by "unsustainable traffic load" and only one ATC controller was managing both helicopter and plane traffic at the same time (among other systemic failures)
Air Canada, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines are some of the safest airlines in the world, and in general US airline are one of the safest in the world. American pilots are rigorous with safety and there's lots of stories with American pilots "rejecting the plane" and won't take off if they're not fully sure it's 100% safe to fly, as it should be
But the problem in the US now isn't the pilots, increasingly it's the air traffic control (ATC) being understaffed, overworked and some say possibly a quality problem of hiring the wrong people and/or not training them properly
That's very scary because even if you have a great plane, with great pilots, who do their best to fly safely, they're highly dependent on ATC to do their job to not crash into other planes
And if nobody can rely on ATC anymore, well, more people will certainly die in the future