- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
Summary
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred FAA employees via emails, including workers in radar, landing, and navigational aid roles, as well as personnel in a classified early warning radar program for Hawaii.
The terminations occur just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision at Reagan Washington National Airport amid ongoing staffing shortages and safety concerns in air traffic control.
Some employees allege the firings were politically motivated and executed without following standard government protocols.
Just wanted to point out a minor detail. Thank God these morons were not dumb enough to fire actual ATCs. These firings were for non-ATC positions at the FAA.
Still really important positions like people who do shit like maintain critical systems (who needs radar? lol) but at least they haven’t fucked with ATC numbers yet. Someone must have told President Musk that would cause the collapse of an already fragile system