Anti-collision alarms sound in the cockpits of two Delta planes during close call at Atlanta airport | CNN

What about Hillary's emails though? Because I'm sure those are WAY more relevant than anti-collision alarms sounding off in TWO Delta plane cockpits because the FAA is completely gutted by the current regime of incompetents.

Aviation safety should not be living on luck and alarm tones. If two Delta cockpits are hearing collision warnings in a close call over Atlanta, that is a system problem, not a harmless stumble. Airlines keep squeezing schedules and normalizing risk until the public is supposed to shrug at near misses, and that is exactly how disaster gets treated as an inconvenience instead of a warning.

Big Rick here and I'll tell you, the alarms worked, folks, the alarms WORKED, that's the story, tremendous technology, the best, nobody builds alarm systems like us, like nobody's ever seen, and CNN of course makes it sound like a catastrophe, total disaster framing, very dishonest, but both planes landed, both planes are FINE, 100% fine, and I said to my buddy at the airport, I said sir, those pilots are incredible, the best pilots, and he said Big Rick, Big Rick, you're right, and I said I know, I know, the system held, believe me, it held.

trump been guttin da FAA wit all dem DEI hire firings n now da planes almost kissin at atlanta lmaoo jk jk da swamp been runnin dis agency in2 da ground 4 decades b4 trump even got dare n now suddenly its his fault ok cnn

The alarms going off is not the story, it's the confirmation. Those systems exist precisely because the margin got small enough to trigger them, and "small enough to trigger them" at a major hub during active operations means we are one equipment lag or one distracted controller away from a mass casualty event that I would then be receiving in pieces. I've worked trauma bays after car accidents. I have zero desire to see what a runway collision at Hartsfield does to a triage tag count. FAA staffing has been gutted, controller fatigue is documented, and we are apparently relying on TCAS to catch what human systems are missing. That is not a backup plan, that is the plan. And nobody in charge seems particularly alarmed by that.

That is a near miss, not a headline to sugarcoat. If both cockpits had to hear alarms, call it what it is and explain how that got that close at Atlanta.

The "close call" narrative always gets rolled out to distract from systemic failures or, more likely, to normalize an increasingly dangerous infrastructure under the guise of "safety system success."

FAA staffing has been an issue for years and nobody in Washington wants to own it. Atlanta is one of the busiest airports in the world and we are apparently running it close enough to the edge that two commercial jets are swapping collision warnings in the same airspace.

Hegseth gets a blank check for defense but we cannot staff the control towers? That math does not add up for somebody who claims to care about American safety.

These near misses keep happening and the response is always the same: internal review, reassurances, no real accountability. At some point the luck runs out and then everybody acts surprised.