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Was the weather any factor?

@ncooperfrank.bsky.social

All these flights were cleared to land, and ATC appears to have been spacing 1 per minute

Nancy Cooper Frank

@kateculliton.bsky.social

total disregard for 99.9 % of the population

Fucking Bitch Kate 🪷

These FUCKERS.

Laurie T

@lauriethomp.bsky.social

But yeah, keep it up forever cause tRump thinks it’s cool and the Eiffel Tower blah blah blah.

From the ATC recording, it sounds like the third one, SWA1295, may have been due to a helicopter either in or close to their lane. There is no helicopter in the flight data, so they either misunderstood what they were seeing or there was a military helicopter flying without a signal.

Shanna Banana

@sratchley.bsky.social

@tathompsonks.bsky.social

Regardless, the decrease in qualified FAA personnel has got to be an impact, no?

Which is, somehow, still not illegal in that corridor.

Obviously scary echoes possible there… Also, less than a week ago, at least nine planes had to go into extended holding patterns bc of Trump’s visit to the Knicks game via JFK. (Not dangerous, just annoying and disrespectful.) bsky.app/profile/gill...

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

At least 9 planes holding for AF1

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

@lizthegrey.com

also seeing allegations that commercial pilots caught offguard by DCA being closed for the flyover. I pulled ATIS and confirmed TFR was posted 63 minutes before it went into effect, but haven't been able to actually track down the corresponding NOTAM or TFR to check notice. bsky.app/profile/kelc...

Kelcie Moseley-Morris@kelciemmorris.bsky.social

oh my god I would lose my shit

Was that for the Blue Angels earlier in the evening or the B-1B at UTC0334?

Here's a clip of the ATC recording. They're saying something about a helicopter, but I'm not sure what. And then the SWA pilot says they're too high and they're doing a go-round. They were about 1,500 feet. Any pilots care to weigh in? The AA flight got down to 500 feet, DAL 2,300 feet.