Everything is Fine: The FAA Has Launched An Investigation After Delta And American Airlines Planes Nearly Collided In Mid-Air The Other Day
Kevin Carter. Getty Images.Every time I hear about a flying incident I think how crazy it is something truly horrible hasn't happened in a while. If we go a week without an engine catching on fire, a door flying off 20,000 feet in the air, or a wheel bouncing off upon touching the tarmac I consider that a miracle. Things are BAD. We're clearly playing with way too much fire and are just begging for a full-blown disaster that shakes the world.
We very nearly had that a few days ago above Syracuse, New York when an American Airlines and a Delta flight almost collided mid-air. A police car dash cam caught the insane moment on video.
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(CBS News) The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation after two planes from major commercial airlines appeared to nearly collide mid-air in an unnerving dash camera video taken by police in Syracuse, New York, this week. Although experts say the flights were not actually on a collision course, based on preliminary evidence, they were for a time flying in very close proximity — just 725 feet apart at their nearest point.
The incident happened at around 11:50 a.m. EDT on Monday, officials said, as the two regional jets navigated around an apparent traffic control error that initially had one cleared to depart from Syracuse Hancock International Airport at the same the other was cleared to land on the same runway.
This video below shows how close they were to colliding and the audio transmission between the pilots and ATC.
There's a few phrases you never wanna hear when it comes to flying a plane and one of them has to be, "Wait, who's cleared to take off?" We can't have that kind of confusion in the skies. Shout out to that American Airlines pilot for being on top of his shit. What a stud. I'm the kind of idiot who is just going to trust you're doing your job. It's a terrible way to live, but who am I to speak up and suggest you don't know what you're doing? That pilot was on his A-Game and it saved around 200 people from a tragic death. Give that man a raise.
You can have an off-day at a bunch of jobs and get on by. If you're a teacher and you're hungover just audible to a movie day and you're fine. If you're an employee at Barstool Sports you can get by a bunch of times doing virtually nothing. Even a pro athlete is prone to off-nights that fans brush aside. A pilot at least has auto-pilot these days to fly the damn thing itself for the most part. But if you're an air traffic controller you have to be on point every single day. If you're distracted and not locked in you could easily have two planes collide in mid-air. You can't afford to be anything but 100% at your best every day you clock into work. Sounds absolutely miserable and unnecessary. I don't know what the salary is for an air traffic controller, but it can't be close to enough to what it should be. There might not be an amount of money you could offer me to do that full-time.
If it was strictly a simulation though, I'd pay so much money to see Mintzy direct planes where to go and control the skies. Of course a lot of us here would completely botch and kill everyone, but Ben would put on a show.