O/T:- Trump Presidency 2.0 [hic sunt dracones]

[Lullapie]

Well you certainly run the risk of more passengers dying if you mis-identify the cause of this horrific accident. Even experts on PPRUNE are not fully clear on what happened. Or are you saying there was a non-Texan in the control tower or a non-redneck flying the chopper and that was the cause?

Commander in Chief perhaps should not be permitting military aircraft to be operating on different frequencies around a very busy airport. Or maybe the control tower was understaffed. Or maybe the controller should have ORDERED the chopper to move to a specific position. The cause of the accident is being questioned by some very skilled people who will ensure they have all the available data at hand - not some loud mouthed megalomaniac trying to score political points. Wouldn't surprise me if there are strikes as a result of this. By the way, at least one major airline will not operate in and out of Washington DC airport at night because of their concerns about safe operating procedures.

I am saying that preliminary reports are that the tower wasn't being correctly manned (or wo-manned). I highlighted an extremely serious aviational issue that occurred in 2018/2019, that the then President, had to step in on and make a quick decision, after the Federal Aviation Administration had procrastinated. The FAA's delay in action could have possibly resulted in the deaths of many people.

Trump has had ongoing issues with the FAA and it was by no means a secret that he wasn't happy with how they recruited employees. If they do have issues with the quality of recruited staff, I am still in the camp of addressing them immediately.

I feel that the US (like many other countries) is on the verge of major operational issues because of it's public service hiring policy of the last few years.

I hope I'm wrong though.

The left-wing media are also lining up to say that it was ACTUALLY Trump who could be to blame for the accident as he has frozen all recruitment in the FAA since he came to power, ten days ago. However, after using that as a headline in some reports, later on it states that it was top end hiring that a freeze had been placed on and it wouldn't have had any impact on the accident.