Investigators examine the wreckage of a Delta Air Lines plane a day after it crashed upon landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Ontario. | Image: AFP via Getty Images

First, let’s lay out the facts.

Four commercial jet crashes have occurred in the last 10 weeks: Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 on Christmas Day; Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 on December 29th; American Airlines Flight 5342 on January 29th; and Delta Connection Flight 4819 on February 17th.

There have been several private airplane crashes in the news recently, too, from the air ambulance crash in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, just before the Super Bowl to the mid-air collision in Scottsdale, Arizona, only last week. In fact, data from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows that there have been 13 fatal airplane crashes in the United States alone since the beginning of the year, including both private and commercial aviation. 

That’s just what is happening in the sky. On the ground, things appear just as chaotic.

On the ground, things appear just as chaotic

The Federal Aviation Administration announced that it was laying off around 400 employees starting on Valentine’s Day, just two weeks after the mid-air collision above Ronald Reagan National Airport. In a combative post on X, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said that all laid-off workers were “probati …

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