What’s the deal with all these airplane crashes?

First, let’s lay out the facts. There have been several private airplane crashes in the news recently, too, from the air ambulance crash in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, just before the Super Bowl to the mid-air collision in Scottsdale, Arizona, only last week. In fact, data from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows that there have been 13 fatal airplane crashes in the United States alone since the beginning of the year, including both private and commercial aviation. That’s just what is happening in the sky. On the ground, things appear just as chaotic. On the ground, things appear just as chaotic The Federal Aviation Administration announced that it was laying off around 400 employees starting on Valentine’s Day, just two weeks after the mid-air collision above Ronald Reagan National Airport. In a combative post on X, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said that all laid-off workers were “probationary” and insisted none were air traffic controllers or “critical ... Read full article.