Summary

Trump is firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees despite recent fatal air crashes, CNN reports.

The AFL-CIO says terminations were issued Friday, with affected staff possibly locked out of FAA facilities after Monday.

Aviation safety union PASS calls the cuts “dangerous,” especially after four deadly incidents in the past month.

Critics argue these moves risk public safety amid ongoing air traffic controller shortages.

  • TheRealKuni@midwest.social
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    4 days ago

    Commercial crashes? 0 is the normal number. But generally aviation crashes are much less rare, sadly. They happen.

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      4 days ago

      Yup, kinda like train derailments. Most of them aren’t huge, so you don’t hear about them, but they happen a lot.

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      Yeah, okay. I was unsure if it’s just that it’s not reported as much usually and being focused on because of the faa thing.