Is it a good idea to avoid air travel for a while?
Philadelphia was not a commercial plane, but still. 2 plane crashes in less than a week seems odd?
I am not really trying to turn this political, but with the way things are right now, I wonder if we are better off driving when possible.
That DC crash was horrific.
Airplanes are supposed to be really safe.
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I am on three different roundtrips in the next three weeks, it is still the safest way to travel.
I would. Trump is already trying to cripple the FAA by coercing workers into quiting. He’s telling them to take his offer of 8 month payment or risk getting fired. The FAA is already understaffed in Air traffic controllers and if they take his offer or risk being fired after the offer passes and get nothing. We will be seriously understaffed. Planes aren’t going anywhere then or we will have a lot more crashes. These are not jobs you can just put your friends in and they can take off running. I’m seriously beginning to think this man works for another country. He’s doing everything to cripple the United States and alienate allies.
His tariff crap is already sending the Stock market to spiral.
When you claim that everything will be a meritocracy and then rule out a huge number of applicants because they won’t swear loyalty to the king, everything is going to be less safe.
I wouldn’t avoid it. FAA and NSTB are very good at their jobs. They already took temporary actions to make National Airport safer. Flying is one of the safest modes of travel.
The boeing issue sealed it for me. The amount of stress and corporate greed and corner cutting happening is leading to a lot of mistakes.
Yes. You actually have better odds at winning the lottery that being in a crash.
I have to do some flying later this Spring and I have to say I’m a bit nervous. A couple of near misses this week.
Me too, @janbb.
This is just one more reason why I prefer a driving trip rather than a flying trip.
@jca2 Between California and France, I don’t really have a choice.
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