Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."

• theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, but people are still going to be using the bathrooms and such, even if you assume everyone actually obeys the rules

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  • yamper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    because of a few exception cases this is never going to work

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      At any time, you can expect at least 2-6 people out of their seats if the fasten seatbelts sign isn’t on. But I don’t really care about that part, shit happens

      Planes shouldn’t be dodging each other in the first place… That’s the actual problem here. I don’t blame the pilot either, they avoided a collision, so as far as I’m concerned they did what they had to do

      The situation itself never should have happened

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      • yamper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        i dont even know what youre trying to state or argue. seatbelts should be worn by all seated passengers at all times to mitigate risk of injury in case something that shouldn’t happen does end up happening. obviously there are exceptions like when people need to piss and shit.

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  • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Of course, but it should be the 2-4 people who are actively going somewhere / in the bathroom, everyone else should have their seatbelt on.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And airplanes shouldn’t be in each other’s airspace

      I don’t know what you’re trying to say, the airplanes nearly running into each other is the clear problem

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      • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Check out John Oliver’s take on air traffic control on LWT

        I was a kid when Reagan fired all the striking air traffic controllers. It turns out it takes a long time to train them, so we haven’t recovered from that one incident. It also means all ATCs are overworked, still underpaid and using outdated hardware and methods.

        Air travel was screwed even before Trump defunded the FAA.

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      • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There are things you can control and things you can’t. I can’t keep the planes out of each other’s airspace, but I can keep my seat belt on.

        That would be more insightful if I wasn’t a pilot…

        Tap for spoiler

        I’m not.

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