Ian Duncan
Appearances
Apple News Today
Why D.C.’s airspace is riskier than we previously thought
We took these findings to experts who've studied aviation safety for years, and they were surprised by just the sheer number.
Apple News Today
Why D.C.’s airspace is riskier than we previously thought
What people who are familiar with it told us is like not every one of these is necessarily a dire emergency. But like when you have this kind of record building up year after year over a decade, that is a suggestion that there's something that at the very minimum needs a closer look.
Apple News Today
Why D.C.’s airspace is riskier than we previously thought
We obviously took all of our findings to the FAA because we wanted to know, were you analyzing this data? Was this a signal that you were paying attention to? And they came back and they basically declined to comment because of the crash investigation. So we don't have a clear sense of what the sort of senior levels of the FAA was doing to kind of keep an eye on this.
Apple News Today
Why D.C.’s airspace is riskier than we previously thought
You just have people living in neighborhoods who don't want a bunch of helicopters flying over them because it's noisy and disruptive. And that might sort of sound a bit glib after a tragedy like this, but it is sort of the reality of managing airspace in a big city.
Apple News Today
Why D.C.’s airspace is riskier than we previously thought
It will take them, you know, a year or more probably to finally untangle all of this. But I think the hope will be that by the end of it we will have a kind of full picture of all the context here.