Two American Airlines jets, including one carrying at least six members of Congress from New York and New Jersey, clipped wings on a taxiway at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington on Thursday, officials said.
Two American Airlines jets, including one carrying at least six members of Congress from New York and New Jersey, clipped wings on a taxiway at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington on Thursday, officials said.
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When you fire the ATC experts……and then beg them back.
Amtrak shares surge and somebody gets richer.
DEI again
Zero fucks given
Get em all on there and go for it.
Never flying out of DCA again.
Who are they going to blame this time?
Hillary's emails?
DEI, Biden, woke, anything that fits their narratives
Did they cry?? I bet they cried.
This what you get when you fire peopel who are needed to safe money for Trump's golf weekends.
Which members? 👀
nypost.com/2025/04/10/u...
Thank you, my god!
That’s. Unfortunate.
missed it by "that much"
When will the Times investigate the rash of aviation crashes and near misses since Trump took office?
Hmmmm...do you think Congress might give a shit about air safety NOW?
This is why President Biden was a Senator, he took the train.
The train from Wilmington Delaware to DC is far easier than driving to PHL or BAL (if there are even flights out of BAL) and catching a flight to DCA. The frequency is far greater and you can relax.
I _have_ to not hear events in a Goodfellas mindset.
Amazing how fast horrible things can begin to feel like a norm under a mad king and his fascist regime.
Are we great now? #maga
same day as helicopter breaking apart and falling into the Hudson. Is it safe to fly anywhere in the US these days??
Were they Republikkkans?! Because IF they were, who cares? I don’t 😏
Congress has had its wings clipped for some time.
Yes but were they Republicans or democrats? Were they shit or were they human beings that we need to worry about
Fucking dei
Cost cutting may be good for profits… but it’s bad for everything and everyone else.
😂
Glad all were ok.
All 6 Congress members are Dems.
no one Republican from the BBC article: "Nick LaLota, a New York Republican, said no-one was hurt when the wing of their stationary plane was "bumped" by another jet."
Cuz of DEI, right, Elmo? 🖕🖕🖕
That's because Buttigieg is incompetent. Sorry. Wrong administration.
I’m waiting for the day when I hear the headline- Air Force One down All passengers presumed dead. On board 45, fElon, JD Vance, Don Jr, Eric Jr, etc The pilots escaped with a few scrapes
YESSSS🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Say it with a little more enthusiasm. Lol Love your spirit!
Going to bed soon and I hope I dream about that. Thanks.
LMAO. Sweet dreams 💤
The Trump administration strikes again.
This is unexceptable how many of these have to happen before we get a conpetent transportarion secretery to hire back faa employees before people demand the FAA AND A Transportation Secretary that is competent
Weird how there have been so many air and rail accidents after they got rid of all those “DEI” employees.
Those DOGE teenagers in the control tower pressed the wrong button.
"It's still my turn - I still have 2 more lives!!"🙄
Big Ballz
DOGE staffer:
At least the government isn't wasting money on DEI air traffic controllers.
Ronald Reagan airport? Do people walk into the terminal with wallets full of money, only to leave with their wealth trickling down out of their pockets?
This would be on Fox News 24/7 if Biden were still President.
at some point they need to close reagan and re-evaluate what the fuck ATC is doing. this is the 4th or 5th incident this year
Plus a helicopter went down! Trump must have replaced the FAA personnel he fired with more Hegseth and Kennedy type inexperienced incompetents! 😡
Awwwww…. 😢. Thoughts and prayers fellas
#WhereWasElon?
Just a clip, huh.
NOTE TO SELF: STAY AWAY FROM REAGAN NATIONAL.
Note to self don’t fly at all if you can take other forms of transportation!
DC native here... been that way for 40+ years. I swore off it after the Air Florida crash in 1982.
Someone in my Pentagon office died on the Memorial Bridge that day. We were AF officers and they let people home early who had longer commutes due to the storm.
My husband, ACFD, worked that incident. The new name, Air Tran, did mean there were changes in safety, just luck.
I thought Musk, DOGE and spaceX fixed everything
I see the reform of the FAA is bearing bitter fruit.
We need Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg!
WTF is going on at that airport?????
maybe time to change Reagan into a train station
So close, maybe next time
Why does it matter that members of congress were on board? Are they somehow more special than everyone else on board?
Irony - the people who could haven been doing something about the air traffic controller issues are now being affected
#MAGA
Close call - gosh darn it Collateral damage as they say Why not us 🤷
Friring all those FAA workers is really working out quite well.
How many near misses, flipped over planes, actual crashes & ppl dying have to occur before ppl demand safe AirTravel & full staffing at FAA? And Musk should not be near any Airports!! Ya know since his crap keeps falling out of the sky!! Should be actual Experienced ppl not Hegseth frat brother
Absolutely unequivocally unsafe to fly anymore Trump has screwed up the TSA and screwed up the FAA. They’re too thinly staffed.
And Musk’s engineers are re-writing the software. 😳
Wow of course we must blame it on Biden right?
Hahaha
I call for a total and complete shutdown of Ronald Regan Airport until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.
What the hell? Was MTG on there?
What the hell is going ON.
This is kind of shit that happens when you put a jackass in charge who takes the word of a drug addicted asshat that cuts the jobs of the air traffic controllers! They both need to be held responsible!
If these were GOP reps, fired ATC and FAA employees would be re hired. Need to put more DOGE employees on those planes.
Oops it’s getting relevant for congress
That might wake a couple of them up
Oh well gee, maybe NOW their lazy asses can do something about that since it affected them
So much for gutting FAA & air traffic controllers 😉
Were the members MAGA? .. asking for a friend.
That happens when you allow cuts to the FAA.
Were they all Republican senators?
Bummer
Of course it was clipped!! Flying is like playing roulette now.
Republicans in Congress shouldn’t worry about it. They confirmed that guy from MTV’s real world to handle everything.
airfares just dropped another 20%...
This is so sad. Air travel use to be safe under every other administration.
Almost like gutting FAA and air traffic controller was a dumb idea with real negative consequences. Imagine that.
Where's Sean Duffy, you know the guy in charge of transportation safety? Bring back Pete!
The sad thing is Duffy has been one of the better Secretaries. He's pushing back on DOGE gutting everything.
Only place I've seen Duffy pushing back is on Fox. Pushing his lies about Dems. Can you give me one instance where he has physically shown up for any of the accidents, especially where people died?
Hes more of a Road Rules guy than an airplane guy
Wonder if he would even know what that means.
Those congress folks will suddenly get real interested in DCA safety.
where they republicans, hopefully!
Airlines failing us again and again.
If this happened under Biden’s watch the media and especially the nytimes would be calling for Buttigieg’s head and saying it’s because Biden has dementia. But since it’s Trump it’s just a tragic accident.
Exactly!
If this happened under Bidens watch you would probably not hear about it.
I don’t know what America you were living in but it certainly wasn’t this one.
That's because Biden didn't fire all the people employed to make sure these things didn't happen.
If anyone wonders,why no body trust US media,or the US for that matter....
Why is it this seems to keep happening in DC?!
This requires an account to read the article.
here is the story from the BBC with no paywall FUCK the NYT www.bbc.com/news/article...
There is no way I am returning to America under Trumps jack sh*t safety.
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THANK YOU!!😃
That kind of stuff is virtually always 100% on the pilots, not ATC. Controllers aren’t driving the airplane.
Nobody cares how many members of Congress is on those airplanes. They don't do their work anyway.
Oh we care. We’re hoping there are as many as possible on the planes. (Maybe someone should plan a far away field trip for the entire senate and the house. On the same plane, ideally an old Aeroflot Russian reject.)
“The OR of car crashes associated with COVID-19 was comparable to driving under the influence of alcohol at legal limits or driving with a seizure disorder.” www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
before i decide how i feel about this which 6 members of congress?
Are the planes ok? 🥺
Had to make sure this wasn’t fake bc really?
Enter Elon Musk to take control.
What is the very qualified reality tv star doing about this? Oh wait I forgot his boss is also a very qualified reality tv star so-nothing. Only in Amerikka
More accurately - ameriKKKa
Absolutely thanks for the spelling correction
Who overruled the FAA and DoT to keep adding flights to DCA???
Maybe now they will do something?
Wtf does that mean?
Maybe NOW Congress will finally realize that cutting funding and firing folks from the Dept. of Transportation isn't working out and maybe they should, you know, not let randos make these cuts. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣 *Wipes hysterical tears from eyes*
This is what happens when you remove DEI 🙄
Republican Congress members? dear god. this is what it's come to.
We're they GOP?....oh my bad.
Simple solution, CLOSE THAT AIRPORT! That was the plan when Dulles opened. But the port congress did not want to travel that far to catch their planes!.. Hello CONGRESS, built more mass transit connections to airports!
Come fly with us? Not me folks!
One way to shake things up in Congress.
For those on here that have flown out of DCA it’s not much of a surprise that this happened. There is way too much traffic at that airport and it needs to reduce the traffic levels to operate safely.
So flying in or out of this airport is now a D20 saving throw 🙃
And you're more likely to roll under 5 than not, because it's a weighted die.
The government is getting sloppy with their assassination attempts
Members of Congress should think about who they work for. Trump's entire unqualified Administration should be recalled. Inexcusable incompetence under the Trump Administration's watch.
None of this occurred when Pete Buttegieg was in charge.
Maybe they’ll vote for more funding for air traffic controllers now?
Yet another reason to take the Acela.
Was this on purpose? My fear is them targeting congress members
There are MANY other “wings” that need to be “clipped……
That airspace is too crowded
Is Airforce one going to New York anytime soon? Asking for a concerned nation...
I read Trump is mad about how long it’s taking Boeing to build the new AF1. Maybe they should work faster and take shortcuts.
Agreed. Nothing but the best (rushed) for this admin. lol!!!
😡We need MORE NOT FEWER air traffic controllers!!!
What do you want to bet that there will be some new legislation about air traffic controllers now… it’s only important if it happens to them…
WTF...what is happening?
Test run?
And we believe ONE word from the “Musk Regime”? Nope.
Republicans or Democrats?
1 Republican
Because it involved DC politicians, perhaps something will now be done.
Gregory Meeks went to Howard U - Dem Ritchie Torres - NYU - Dem Grace Meng - Law - Dem Adriano Espaillat - Dem Josh Gottheimer - Dem - Harvard Nick Lalotta - Hofstra Law - Repub
Just look at us America! Getting better by the day!
Maybe someone will look into all these air travel problems now? Maybe?
The regime in the WH is to blame for every single aviation incident. Total incompetency.
Taking a chance anytime you fly in the US
Who were the 6 members of congress? NYT won’t let me read it because of their paywall & I don’t support maga owners.
https://abc7ny.com/post/dca-plane-incident-local-members-congress-nyc-bound-flight-clipped-wings-another-washington/16153434/
Thanks Carol!
Ritchie Torres, D-NY Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-NY Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-ny
Here’s a few. Reps. Nick LaLota, R-New York; Josh Gottheimer, D-New Jersey; and Grace Meng, D-New York said on X they were on the plane that was hit, but were OK
Thank you very much! 💙
Hahahah yeah! WTF did you expect? Let's fire everyone in the FAA!
Damm to bad they didn’t hit head on
#SecDuffy doing a #Bangup job so far.
Damn, it could have been far better
What did DEI and Joe Biden do THIS time? Oh, Sean Duffy, I hope that, after you explain their complicity in the helicopter crash in New York City, you will set the record straight and explain their complicity in this incident! People want answers…even if you make it up out of your ass!
The people this country puts in charge of critical things under this new regime, fuckin DOGe and his dorky band of totally unqualified idiots firing everyone with qualifications to try and pretend their trash AI can fix anything, these types of things are going to be commonplace without real adults
Maybe the administration should fire more air traffic controllers. It's going so well.
Anybody interested to read the full article without paywall? Voilà: archive.is/bV6fj
Thank you.
My pleasure! Try archive.is for other articles/outlets, too!
You're a peach. Thank you.
😘 :) It's my pleasure to share my knowledge. Try archive.is for other paywalled articles/outlets, too!
Thank you very much! I hate when it's an important article but I can't read it.
Same here! Trying to open paywalled articles with archive.is works in most cases.
You can also use your libraries (which Donald Trump is currently trying to defund).
Sometimes, if you try to access those articles outside of a social media platform, they’re available for free or you can just find the story from another outlet. When it’s pertinent to our safety or what’s happening in our gov rn, it irks me as well. Like, dude…
Sometimes I hate when the press pays its reporters and lawyers to get important information every day about national news but people complain (it’s not just you - and subscriptions are about $2 fwiw)
Thank you. So much appreciated
My pleasure! Try archive.is for other paywalled articles/outlets, too!
Thank you! I wonder if the repub congressman wishes there were not so many cuts to air traffic controllers and such?
My pleasure. Try archive.is for other paywalled articles/outlets, too!
I am flat out not flying anywhere right now.
But the government is running like a well oiled machine.🙄 NOT.....
What about the other people in the planes? They don't count?
Are we great again?
It’s not possible, only white men are in charge now. Everything should run perfectly
If they voted for the cuts no sympathy !
My Honda goes beep beep before I hit another Honda. Wtf.
Maybe airlines should have the proximity detection sensors on the wings of their aircraft. That will sound like the alarm, if the wings come closer than 3 feet to any objects.
great idea!
These same members of Congress were told repeatedly that DCA was at capacity and they forced more flights for their personal convenience.
Close but no cigar.
Not “clipped” enough, apparently.
Can only imagine how the gop magats would’ve carried on if “sleepy joe” and mayor Pete were in charge. But instead crickets
Remember just a few months ago when it was safe to fly?
This is Trumps version of MAGA. Time for all pilots to strike
Please, no... I need my pilots to work in order to take me out and away from this shithole, soon...
How many accidents or near misses have happened since Trump moved into the White House?
Why are there so many aviation accidents and near misses over the past few months? It’s really odd.
It's almost like a bunch of people who kept us safe in the air suddenly disappeared...
Waiting for Duffy...."b b but the previous administration!". In his best used car salesman gameshow host voice....
A few days ago, MTV Boy was on one of the RWNJ shows lamenting about shower heads & dishwashers, a real vexing issue on the forefront of every citizen’s mind 🙄. /s. I’m sure Duffy will get right on aircraft safety as soon as he has a solution for pre-wash rinsing of dishes.
Think it got their attention?
Fortunately, they were sitting in first class, so it wasn’t so bad. Were they going home today? Flying to ny from Washington?
We need fresh blood on Capitol Hill. Esp. Banana republicans, the cowardly bunch of shits, but Democrats too
Which side
Members of Congress are human beings, just like anyone else. They need no further elevation in print.
That’s what happens when you cut out jobs that are NEEDED TO KEEP AMERICANS SAFE!
Anyone missing the air traffic controllers yet?
Sean Duffy was never the Transportation Secretary either.
Members of congress were on board? I hope they were Republicans, because as everyone knows, Republicans won't do anything about a problem until it directly impacts them.
One R
Something else to blame #Doge for.
Zero out of six points for that.
Meanwhile, back at the Camp Crazy Ranch Sean Duffy is spewing some stupid nonsense about shower heads. 🤡