Is It Safe To Fly In America?
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@ProfessorBaugus
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
If you think safety depends on government regulation you do not understand ,markets or even basic incentives at all. No airline wants to ever have an accident and if we got the government out of the air business safety would improve. As soon as u=you learn that government is made up of failed flawed people (like all of us) who are in a system where there is almost never a reward for doing well or punishment for doing poorly then you will realize two things: 1) government is not the answer and 2) government is not the answer.
@mjtjgilbert123
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
Meh. I've been on 50 flights this year. Air travel is still objectively and by far the safest mode of transportation
@Humancatpost
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
lol it’s not even safe to fly within America, city to city. Feels like we’ve had more crashes this year alone than in the entire rest of my life so far. The airline industry, like every other, needs to be nationalized to force it to care about safety. Money comes first, second, and third otherwise, and the risk of a few lawsuits is worth the gain on not having to pay a thousand or so additional controllers and staff across multiple airports. Capitalism is the issue here. We can hem and haw about it all we want and try our little band aid fixes, but we’re going to keep ending up here. It’s functioning as intended. The people who died in those crashes died because their lives had no value to the people in charge of the airline, full stop. Was preventable, was not prevented.
@wmd40
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
leeja … they are trying to privatize everything. you can't be serious that the answer is privatization. Congress shouldn't be able to impede the everyday non-regulatory duties of any of our government agencies. do not fall for the privatization of ANYTHING!!!!
@Viscountess_Arseid
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
Literally "We need money, so….die" like- that is literally the mentality here.
@ryanstone2676
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
All roads lead to Reagan
@EVDriverFL
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
Bring riccola and a 😷 mask
@guillermoguillotine
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
The floppy discs may be a security measure to prevent hacking, requiring physical access to change settings or acquire data.
@brute83302
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
Bring back Pete❤
@CarlHardiman-jc7br
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
SHORT ANSWER = NOPE🤨🥴😖😵…….😔💩🤢🤮🕳💯%!!!
@CarlHardiman-jc7br
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
SHORT ANSWER = NOPE🥴😖
@FlawlessP401
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
13:04 not a single piece of evidence that theres any racial or sex based animus in the field sjes doing prog slop where they use the word racism to mean any outcome she doesnt like
@jess-adventurer
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
I was starting to think, "damn, they have a shortage, and I'd be good at this?" Then you got to the discrimination and well, I don't think they wanna hire my trans ass lol
@JM87Fly
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
I fly airline jets in a country other than America. Far from being the standard followed by the rest of the world, the US is viewed as more of a cautionary tale by many pilots outside that country.
There are many practises common in the US which are considered archaic or plain unsafe by pilots and controllers elsewhere: for example, visual-only separation at night, and parallel visual approaches by airliners at night.
The US has a number of major deviations away from the standard set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation, which aims to align and standardise operations worldwide. These deviations are mostly published for the awareness of pilots, but it’s still a significant number of deviations, most of which are unnecessary and remain simply because the US considers changing its rules to fit with everyone else anathema.
Air travel is by far the safest form of transport around, including in the USA. But there are a large number of countries that manage airspace systems equally or more complex, and just as much traffic density, better and more safely than in the US.
@picahudsoniaunflocked5426
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
NAVCAN is a Crown Corp, I thought? Different than privatization.
@Invalourrr-vb3xo
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
0:21 67 lol
@patrickwalsh8997
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
All the drama around aviation safety
Is F N ri-di-cu-lous
When you compare to medical safety
A very real daily car-na-ge
Around 100Americans die a day
Every day
From avoidable medical errors
Like the Catholic pedophilia scandal
Or the the high killings by police
The greater scandal
Is that it has gone unaddressed for so long
That it was actively ignored
So huge the problem
That is more convenient to ignore
@stoker1931jane
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
22:05 I personally do NOT think, because there are now more public Air Traffic related ACCIDENTS: that steps will be taken to improve things. 😔
If this would be true, better 'G√N Safety Laws' would been created after all the M@ss Sh°°tings in 🇺🇸. 💔
@CynthiaMcG
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
My sister actually bought airline tickets for our visit to visit relatives in another state. Thank goodness that it wasn't on American Airlines. I guess I was lucky that everything was uneventful.
@witwisniewski2280
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
You don't get one part of the system: General Aviation (GA). Yes, some of it is jets belong to billionaires, but almost all of it is middle class pilots who love to fly and strip their livelihood trying to keep their flying safe. Privatization of ATC or taxing of GA would kill almost all recreational flying. In many developed countries, recreational flying is subsidized to keep it alive.
@ItsDannyRobbins
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
Nothing is trustworthy in the USA.
@MrJRoK-lu3yt
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
Cheers to the American… Wait John Oliver became a US citizen.
Cheers to John Oliver successfully becoming the male Leeja Miller!
@ErutaniaRose
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
Basic fucking safety and survival should NOT be political, but sadly it almost always has been. Thanks crapitalism.
@matcharoselatte
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
“Wearing her burnout as a badge of honor” is all too common!!! They’re trying to impress soulless people.
@matcharoselatte
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
Oh hell no
@altrag
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
I'm not entirely sure I follow the logic: "Congress can be influenced by monied interests, so we should give ATC to a for-profit company." Last I checked, for-profit companies were pretty much the near-singular definition of "monied interests".
Of course in a country where businesses prioritize profits over people, and the government also prioritizes profits over people, I suppose its more a matter of how were getting screwed rather than avoiding getting screwed.
@timothystockman7533
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
I was learning to fly a few years after Reagan fired the controllers. Out in northern Indiana, the military controllers at Grissom Air Force base stepped in to fill the void. For several years, until the late 1980s, Grissom controlled the civilian air traffic in most of northern Indiana.Although it was a stopgap measure, the controllers at Grissom did a great job and were always very friendly on the radio.
@limsalalafells
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
How could there be a better time? When Congress is working on a bill is exactly when changes can be addressed…
@anonymoususer188
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 am
Of course it dates back to Regan. Everything dates back to Regan. He wasn't very helpful. Unlike me. Hi. I'm clippy. I just want to be helpful.
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