BREAKING: The deadliest air disaster in America since 9/11 — a senseless tragedy. What happened? We now know that one air controller was doing the job of two. They’re supposed to have 30 air traffic controllers in the tower, but they only had 19. The investigation will tell us the truth, but what we do know is that standards were lowered, staffing was affected, and everyone’s suspicious.
So what?
You idiots who lap this shit up are too stupid to even realize how ignorant;y stupid you are proving yourselves to be.
Obviously I know a little something about flying and air traffic control. And it has been my lifetime experience that
anything regarding aviation written or reported on by the press or media of any kind is sensationalized to appeal to you mooks at worst, and wrong on many factual points or interpretations at best.
The Controller DID HIS JOB by advising the helo pilot of the jet, confirming he saw it and then issuing an instruction on how to avoid a conflict/ collision by turning BEHIND the jet.
Instead, the helicopter pilot turned IN FRONT of the jet's flight path AND climbed above the established and published 200' maximum altitude for his flight path AND must have either lied about seeing the jet or mistook another jet or lights for the aircraft the controller was pointing out. Once the helicopter pilot asked for a clearance to visually avoid the traffic he then acknowledged seeing, the responsibility lies with the helicopter pilot to avoid that aircraft. And as soon as he finished acknowledging the Controller, he CLIMBED and TURNED INTO the jet. The Controller didn't even have a chance to breath in that moment it took for the helo pilot to make the move into the jet,, let alone tell him he was doing the wrong thing.
The helicopter broke several rules
despite the Tower Controller doing his job.
Being short staffed or one controller handling two positions is a fact of life in aviation. Whether it is because someone is off sick, taking a break
or maybe being fired by Donald Trump a week ago, is irrelevant in this case. The Controller did exactly what he was supposed to do:
point out traffic to pilots.