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Trump administration firing hundreds of FAA employees despite four deadly crashes in four weeks (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Powderhorn to c/usnews

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And this is what we voted for, somehow. Make America Crash Again!

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago

Aviation safety is the canary in the coal mine. They actively deal with a massive amount of traffic with a virtually zero error rate. That rate moved up a notch. As cuts continue, it will move up more notches.

Everything’s else we’ve considered safe for decades because it’s being protected by diligent, but thankless, federal workers is going to follow suit.