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2025-02-27 Science & Technology
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I'm an airline pilot. This is the terrifying reason so many planes are REALLY crashing right now,...
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] This time a Southwest plane and a private jet narrowly avoided colliding at Chicago’s Midway Airport on Tuesday afternoon.
It’s a sickening reminder of the American Airlines regional crash with a military helicopter in DC that killed 67 last month – and of a spate of other accidents these past weeks.
And the most terrifying thing about this tragedy and these close calls is that we in the aviation industry saw them coming.
As a former commercial pilot, crash investigator and expert in accident causation, I have seen the safety buffer that took decades to build steadily eroded in recent years.
It started with declining standards at Boeing – turning out planes with defects, such as the Boeing 737 Max, that led to the deaths of 346 people in two crashes in less than six months in October 2018 and March 2019.
Last January, a door-sized panel blew out in a 737 Max mid-flight with near-catastrophic consequences.
But the truth is the experts have been raising the alarm for years.
A key contributing factor to the problems we are experiencing in our airspace system is the chronic shortage of air traffic controllers.
I feel for these controllers. They are over-worked and over-stressed – they know that if they make a mistake someone could die.
But its undeniable that the buffer of safety in which we once felt so secure has been eroded.
Another valid concern is that regional and national airlines are hiring pilots and promoting them through the ranks with less experience than ever before.
I’m not aware of any studies that focus on the impact of limited experience on flight safety, but the truth is that, without positive measures to address the problems in our skies, accidents will keep happening and more frequently.
Make no mistake there is still a pretty good safety buffer in place in our skies but it’s shrinking, and we need to act now if we want to stop it from shrinking further.
Shawn Pruchnicki is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University in the College of Engineering. He was a Delta connection pilot for 10 years and trained in accident investigation at the NTSB Academy. He has testified to the US Senate on the current Boeing safety culture and manufacturing problems and his research into aviation safety has been published including by NASA and the FAA. 
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