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1. 👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:11:18 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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   • Yogthos

   @yogthos Bro, it has always been this way. Not with understaffing, but with single tower controllers. You're only going to get multiple tower controllers with large airports like ATL or SFO or BOS or JFK or MIA, etc. where they're running multiple parallel operations at a time. At DCA that night they were running 1 departure and 1 arrival operation to a single or intersecting runway (which effectively means the same thing as running 1 runway). One controller for that operation is totally normal, has been ever since I've ever been flying.

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   • Yogthos (yogthos@social.marxist.network)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:11:19 JST Yogthos

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     @adiz seems like the only reason it's normal is because over 90% of U.S. airport towers are understaffed though

     https://www.cbsnews.com/news/over-90-percent-u-s-airport-towers-understaffed-air-traffic-controllers-data-shows/

   • 👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:11:20 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     • Yogthos

     @yogthos There was a single tower controller, that's pretty typical. There's not much else a second controller could be doing at DCA because they don't run parallel runways. It's very normal at most airports to just have the single tower controller.

   • Yogthos (yogthos@social.marxist.network)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:11:21 JST Yogthos

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     @adiz uh yeah it did, Reagan National Airport tower was understaffed during the crash, according to a government report

     https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5gyx09pj8o

   • 👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:11:22 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     • Yogthos

     @yogthos The DC plane crash had virtually nothing to do with understaffing, though. Just want to point that out, because a lot of people have been expressing this sort of sentiment re it.

   • Yogthos (yogthos@social.marxist.network)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:11:23 JST Yogthos

     Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash.

     https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437