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Newark airport air traffic controller offers damning assessment: ‘It is not safe. Don’t fly into Newark’

The airport, which served 49 million travelers in 2024 and is the second busiest in the New York City area, has been drowning in delays and cancellations for days.
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Newark Liberty International Airport is “not safe” for travelers, one air traffic controller at the delay-plagued travel hub reportedly warned.

“It is not safe. It is not a safe situation right now for the flying public,” the federal air safety employee reportedly told NBC News correspondent Tom Costello.

“Really an incredible statement, unsolicited. He just said that to me, and separately, ‘Don’t fly into Newark. Avoid Newark at all costs,’” Costello recounted on MSNBC.

The situation has grown so dire that United Airlines — which uses the airport as its primary East Coast hub — announced it was cancelling 35 roundtrip flights daily, saying it was necessary “in order to protect our customers.”

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^That picture is photoshopped, Buttgig's thin political career prospects would have been obliterated had he published that kind of shot.
 
Cooper said:
^That picture is photoshopped, Buttgig's thin political career prospects would have been obliterated had he published that kind of shot.
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I suppose you're right that it's photoshopped.

However, it's been around for years, and I accepted it as real. There's that other picture of him with his fag husband sitting together holding the baby, which is equally bad in my mind, so I never even thought to doubt the picture with the plastic tits.

Hopefully this picture did help to obliterate his career.
 
Caduceus said:

Lufthansa flight flew for 10 minutes without conscious pilot, investigation reveals​



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Lufthansa flight flew for 10 minutes without conscious pilot, investigation reveals

A Lufthansa Airbus A321 flight experienced a incident on Feb. 17, 2024, when a copilot fainted alone while the captain was on a restroom break.
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Not much that can be done to prevent this happening at least occasionally. It's an unusual combination of circumstances, but certainly possible.

Modern airliners are coming close to the point where they could do the whole flight from takeoff to landing by autopilot. The pilot is still needed to react to emergencies, but in a case like this, the risk of flying on autopilot for 10 minutes was pretty low.
 
Caduceus said:
Of course it's preventable.
Anytime one of the 2 pilots leaves the cockpit, a flight attendant should go inside and wait until they return.
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I believe this is SOP in the USA. Not sure if it's different in Europe or if they were disobeying procedure.
 
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