The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The D.C. Plane Crash Tragedy (feat. Jeff Wise)
Thu, 30 Jan 2025
Aviation journalist, Jeff Wise, joins us to discuss last night's tragic plane crash in Washington D.C. He shares his expertise on what led to the crash and how rare an event like this actually is. Plus, after the FAA director was forced out and air traffic controllers were fired, how responsible is the United States government? Plus, we discuss the impact on the entertainment industry that YouTube influencers such as Speed, Druski and Mr. Beast have had, and marvel at some of Speed's athletic achievements. Then, we continue the discussion about the plane crash and what kind of concerns this raises about the effectiveness of the United States government and our systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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I have been telling you recently among my many fears that it seems like some basic American systems are just failing. Things are failing and getting worse. And overnight, many of you woke up this morning to a crash that it seems confirmed now. that there aren't going to be any survivors.
It's very close to confirm that 64 people on board an American Airlines flight and three service members in the Army chopper that crashed into it, there will be no survivors. Jeff Wise is a longtime aviation journalist. He's the host of the podcast Finding MH370. And we have had recently four,
400 senior FAA officials plus the head of the TSA and 3,000 air traffic controllers were fired as recently as a week ago. Jeff, without making this about politics, can you just tell me how rare this is and what kind of leadership breaches might cause it?
Well, that's a great question. It's rare and it's not rare in the sense that there hasn't been a collision, a mid-air collision between a U.S. commercial airliner and another aircraft in flight. The most recent one I could find was in the 80s. And so in that sense, it's really rare. But there have been all of these near misses reported in recent years, and there's been a lot of concern
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