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On this week’s episode of AvTalk, an Endeavor Air CRJ-900 ends up upside down in Toronto, but everyone on board makes it out safely. The NTSB provides a detailed update on the mid-air collision in Washington, including the agency’s focus on the helicopter’s altitude and the altitude the pilots believed they were at. We discuss the recent firings of probationary employees at the FAA and what effects this might have on the agency now and in the long term. And for the first time in the airline’s history (sort of), Southwest Airlines is conducting layoffs, with 15% of its corporate workforce being let go.
Helpful links for this week’s episode
- Endeavor Air crash in Toronto
- NTSB updates on DCA crash
- The Air Current article on FAA firings
- Crankyflier post on Southwest
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4 Responses
Todo bien.
Love your podcast, love planes. I’m sure you’ve heard this recently but respectfully please be mindful that if you continue to assume that the majority of your listeners have like political opinions, you may lose them. You always warn, as you should, on speculating about accidents before we have all the information, and yet you both speculate about the FAA cuts, reasons for them, why people may or may not want to work for the government, and state that “Elon Musk” is trying to, “swindle the government “. I understand that this is your opinion and it seems reasonable to you, but to 60% of Americans it may not. Hell I’m from Canada and I still agree with a some of what your new govt has done. Sincerely Kevin Barrett
Sorry this goes outside the Political guard rails you have set yourselves, your speculation as the who any why FAA employees have lost their jobs is not appropriate and the subtext that somehow Federal employees should expect a job for life is wrong headed …
Step back from the politics..
Hi Ed, thanks for listening to the episode and for taking the time to write in. There was no need to speculate, we know that positions eliminated en mass were due to the employees’ probationary status. Our core argument was that any cuts to a safety focused workforce should not be indiscriminate, without regard to the particular position or its role within the National Airspace System.