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Thursday, August 21, 2025

A federal advisory committee of pro-corporate aviation "experts" is telling the Trumpf junta there should be only one pilot, not two, in an airplane's cockpit. European airline executives have been pushing their regulators for only one pilot in the cockpit through the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and they are lobbying the corporate-friendly GOP Trumpf regime to agree. Citing safety reasons, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and 43 senators from both political parties railed against this idiotic cost-saving proposal. US Senators Tim Sheehy (R-MT) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) sent a bipartisan letter to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, urging the FAA to vigorously oppose single-pilot operations for commercial airline operations: Letter to DOT. Nota Bene: The US is also facing a critical shortage of FAA Air Traffic Controllers impacting the aviation industry.

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US aviation safety has demonstrably declined in the past eight months under President Plane Crash' who appointed an airline executive and political donor that lied about his commercial jet pilot experience to lead the FAA. This single pilot proposal puts profits over people and obviously endangers passengers and flight crews.
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The FAA is investigating an incident after a flap on a Boeing 737's wing partially broke off before landing in Texas on Tuesday.

Delta Air Lines Flight 1893 was flying from Orlando International to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport when passengers noticed something had partially broken away from the back of the wing. The damaged plane flew at hundreds of miles an hour thousands of feet in the air. 62 passengers and six crew members were onboard the plane and no one was injured.

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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-21 12:51 AM | Reply

Pretty empty flight by post 911 standards.

Losing a piece of a flap shouldn't affect an aircraft operational ability. Best reason ever to put the engines in front of the control surfaces.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-21 01:04 AM | Reply

Globalist Eurotrash vs. the Pilot's Union (and everybody else). These are the same people that gave us the WEF and told us to eat bugs. How any worker, unionized or otherwise, could support this is beyond me.

We need the Fifth International! Read it's website here: www.wsws.org

#3 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-08-21 01:26 AM | Reply

Losing a piece of a flap shouldn't affect an aircraft operational ability.

Depends upon the operational ability you're talking about. When deployed the plane will yaw to one side, can the rudder over power this?

Depends upon the flap setting 10 degrees sure, 40 degrees, probably not.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-21 10:04 PM | Reply

Airline Pilots Oppose FAA Proposal for One Pilot Flights

Reasonable, yet there are GA aircraft that can, at the push of a button, find an airport, communicate with ATC, and land, get off the taxiway.

I am surprised this isn't in Commercial Aircraft.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-21 10:07 PM | Reply

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