Ep. 2140 - Trump & Vance WRECK Europe
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What are the key events from President's Day weekend?
Well, folks, it was a very busy President's Day weekend. In the news, we're going to get to all of it. Ongoing negotiations over Ukraine between the United States and Russia in Saudi Arabia. President Trump at the Daytona 500. J.D. Vance giving off some pretty strong, aggressive vibes in Germany. Lots of stuff happening. We begin today with the latest on this insane situation up in Toronto where a Delta plane landed and then flipped over onto its roof. Here's a video that is just breaking as of this morning.
We just landed. Our plane crashed.
You can see this plane is completely on its roof.
Breaking news from Pearson Airport. Apparently everybody's alive. Delta Airlines CRJ900 has crashed. As you can see, the plane ended up upside down and the wings were sheared off. 80 people were on board the flight. No one was killed. Good evening. The crash occurred around 2.30 this afternoon. According to Peel paramedics, 15 people were injured, two of them critically. One child was also transported to SickKids Hospital.
Okay, so we do actually have some video of the moment of impact. This looks like pilot error. I mean, there really is no other way to read this. This is an insane crash landing. Basically, the plane comes down so hard that it rips off part of the landing gear and flips the plane completely over. One of the wings comes off the plane. So it is not as though it flipped around in the air or anything like that. This is not an FAA issue. This is not a coordination issue between various planes. This is a pilot who's going to have some splaining to do. Here is the video. That is not good. Miracle that nobody was killed in this. Again, there are 15 people who have been injured. Now, this has not stopped anybody on the left or in the media from immediately blaming the Trump administration for a plane crash that happened in Canada. which maybe this is the start of our invasion of Canada, actually. This is the inciting event.
But in any case, here was NBC News trying to blame Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Doge for a plane crash in which it is pretty obvious that the pilot screwed something up here.
This is going to, yet again, raise the concern about FAA staffing, air traffic control staffing. Now, this is a Canadian air traffic control tower, and this is under Canadian authority once it crosses the border. And yet, as you know, there has been this talk about maybe staff cuts at the FAA. as a part of President Trump's effort to trim down the federal workforce. And yet, as you also know, the FAA has been complaining for years that they are understaffed in critical job positions, especially air traffic control.
There is zero evidence that had anything to do with the FAA or firings at the FAA or anything remotely like that. In fact, a CNN safety analyst named David Susi admitted as much, said, yeah, we've had a bunch of plane incidents lately, but there's not really one factor tying them together or anything.
When we look at a short period of time in aviation, you have to understand that the litmus test here is a personal decision on your part. Do you feel safe? Now, when you're trying to make that decision, do I feel safe flying? And I do very much so. There's no trend. There's nothing that ties these accidents together. So using critical thinking, you can say for yourself, All of these things indicate some kind of trend in aircraft accidents. And to me, as an experienced investigator and being involved in aviation as a mechanic and as a safety inspector for the FAA, I feel perfectly safe doing this. I don't see anything tying these together that says, oh, the FAA is bad or the system is a problem. There are incidents that are a problem.
Now, the way that the media are attempting to spin this as a problem with Elon Musk or Doge, the reason they're doing this is – and this is going to be the approach for the next several years – is that every time there is an incident, it is going to be tied to some sort of broader spate of cuts. It's going to be difficult to link the incident to the cuts, but that's going to have to be the argument because in reality, when bad things happen, somebody has failed. And that somebody is usually a person who's there, not a person who's not there. So it is much harder generally to blame something on, quote unquote, understaffing than on the people who are there failing to do their jobs.
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