Anonymous wrote:This is what the president plans for air traffic control:

We're all gonna sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new. Not pieced together, obsolete, like it is, land-based. Trying to hook up a land-based system to a satellite system. The first thing that some experts told me when this happened is you can't hook up land to satellites and you can't hook up satellites to land. It doesn't work. We spend billions of billions of dollars trying to renovate an old, broken system, instead of just saying cut it loose, and let's spend less money and build a great system done by two or three companies, very good companies, specialists, that's all it is. They used 39 companies. That means that 39 different hookups have to happen. And I don't know how many people of you are good in terms of all of the kinds of things necessary for that. And it's very complex stuff. But when you have 39 different companies working on hooking up different cities at different people. You need one company. With one set of equipment. And there are some countries that have unbelievable air controller systems. And they would've, bells would've gone off when that helicopter literally even hit the same height. Because it traveled a long distance before it hit. It was just like, just wouldn't stop. Follow the line. But bells and whistles would've gone off. They have 'em where it actually could virtually turn the thing around. It would've just never happened if we had the right equipment.
And one of things that's gonna be, l'm gonna speaking to John and to Mike and to Chuck and everybody, we have to get together and just as a single bill just pass where we get the best control system. When I land in my plane, privately, l use a system from another country because my captain tells me, I'm landing in New York and I'm using a sys- I won't tell you what country, but l use a system from another country because the captain says 'This thing is so bad, it's so obsolete.' And we can't have that.

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Anonymous wrote:This is quite incredible.

When Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked if he had any additional information from the Pentagon about the flyover, Duffy said, “I don’t.

MacCallum noted she didn’t understand why the Pentagon “hasn’t gotten back to you on this yet. But we hope they sure do soon.”

“So do I,” Duffy replied.

When the Transportation Secretary can't get a response from the Pentagon, what does that tell you about how well this country is being run? Hegseth is so concerned about preserving his image as a competent SecDef, that everything else comes second.

A decade ago this chain of events would DOMINATE the news cycle.
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Chopper flies an unnamed VIP for purposes not related to urgent national security. Then flies into airliner.

Stupid chopper routes that caused dozens of issues for years, finally prohibited.

Chopper flies the prohibited route. Interrupts final approach of two airliners.

Country's top transportation official asks military what happened. Military ignores them.

Of note: country's top military official talks about top level plans with his wife, brother, and personal lawyer. This is AFTER he faces criticism for accidentally leaking top level plans to a journalist.

I suspect that they had dropped off Elon Musk at the CIA. This is my best guess based on what was happening with DOGE at that time. Elon would never want to ride in a car all the way out to Virginia as he is obsessed that he will be shot by somebody.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is quite incredible.

When Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked if he had any additional information from the Pentagon about the flyover, Duffy said, “I don’t.

MacCallum noted she didn’t understand why the Pentagon “hasn’t gotten back to you on this yet. But we hope they sure do soon.”

“So do I,” Duffy replied.

When the Transportation Secretary can't get a response from the Pentagon, what does that tell you about how well this country is being run? Hegseth is so concerned about preserving his image as a competent SecDef, that everything else comes second.

I feel much safer flying with fewer unqualified DEI hires working at the air traffic control towers.

Anonymous wrote:thank goodness the dei hires are gone and now we know that it's unqualified white men to blame for the collapse of the systems that (used to) keep us safe

Anonymous wrote:thank goodness the dei hires are gone and now we know that it's unqualified white men to blame for the collapse of the systems that (used to) keep us safe

Anonymous wrote:Another radar outage at Newark this morning. Yikes.

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Anonymous wrote:these things only started happening when trump took office. They didn't happen under Biden. the idea that Duffy is trying to put this on the previous administration is laughable.

Somehow the Trump admin doesn't realize that firing a whole bunch of staff at agencies that are barely hanging on doesn't cause improvement.

I'm sure the Pentagon has a few billion they could share.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is quite incredible.

When Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked if he had any additional information from the Pentagon about the flyover, Duffy said, “I don’t.

MacCallum noted she didn’t understand why the Pentagon “hasn’t gotten back to you on this yet. But we hope they sure do soon.”

“So do I,” Duffy replied.

When the Transportation Secretary can't get a response from the Pentagon, what does that tell you about how well this country is being run? Hegseth is so concerned about preserving his image as a competent SecDef, that everything else comes second.

A decade ago this chain of events would DOMINATE the news cycle.
----
Chopper flies an unnamed VIP for purposes not related to urgent national security. Then flies into airliner.

Stupid chopper routes that caused dozens of issues for years, finally prohibited.

Chopper flies the prohibited route. Interrupts final approach of two airliners.

Country's top transportation official asks military what happened. Military ignores them.

Of note: country's top military official talks about top level plans with his wife, brother, and personal lawyer. This is AFTER he faces criticism for accidentally leaking top level plans to a journalist.

Anonymous wrote:I feel much safer flying with fewer unqualified DEI hires operating helicopters around DC air space like that unqualified helicopter pilot who killed some 67 people.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is quite incredible.

When Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked if he had any additional information from the Pentagon about the flyover, Duffy said, “I don’t.

MacCallum noted she didn’t understand why the Pentagon “hasn’t gotten back to you on this yet. But we hope they sure do soon.”

“So do I,” Duffy replied.

When the Transportation Secretary can't get a response from the Pentagon, what does that tell you about how well this country is being run? Hegseth is so concerned about preserving his image as a competent SecDef, that everything else comes second.