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All of these ICE charter airlines have emergency landings, diversions, aborted takeoffs etc ALL THE TIME. And very often the shackled passengers have to sit on the plane until ICE flies in a new one. When I say I am drowning in stories and wish more journos were covering this, this is what I mean!

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social

🧊✈️ HERE'S YOUR DAILY DIVERT 😬 ⚠️ An Air Wisconsin jet (tail: N413AW) bound for the ICE hub in Alexandria, Louisiana turns back abruptly after takeoff and returns to Milwuakee 👀

14/8/26, 1:56 pm118 reposts190 likes

Dessner

@mikedessner.bsky.social

14 Aug

Thank you for your service.

JJ in DC

@jjindc.bsky.social

14 Aug

Turns out this plane was pressed into service just minutes later for *another* jet that broke down in Utah 👀

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social

👉 In this case, the same plane (N413AW) was later used as an emergency replacement for another ICE charter that broke down in St George, Utah earlier that day.

just jonah

@j-nametag.bsky.social

14 Aug

Someone is going to get hurt before the larger media steals the story about faulty planes.

JJ in DC

@jjindc.bsky.social

14 Aug

I fear that you may be right.

Jaysus

He's gotcha

Thisistheforestsuccessional

@thereinthedistance.bsky.social

14 Aug

They must be regularly violating safety rules? Which also may indicate substandard pilots as pilots with their shit together seem to be about safety/not being named in an NTSB investigation?

Mizpah Moon 📎

@ekbmary.bsky.social

14 Aug

Gillian just saw ur interview w/ @eisendrath.net - really appreciate & admire ur work. I’m going 2 suggest u hook up w/ an amazing journo Jeff Newton who I know is on FB & substack - prob other platforms. Spent 30 yrs as war correspondent & exec producer @ 60 minutes. See if u can do interview w/him

coastally1337

@coastally1337.bsky.social

14 Aug

Do these stories interest the r/aviation or other airplane/flying nerd communities?

Gillian Brockell

@gillianbrockell.com

14 Aug

Reporting out all of these incidents is not something I could do by myself, so I haven’t pursued it. I would LOVE if @propublica.org or somewhere else big would take it on. Activists like @jjindc.bsky.social will have lots of records for them to tackle!