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Air Traffic Control: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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♪ ("LAST WEEK TONIGHT" THEME MUSIC PLAYS) ♪
Our main story tonight concerns air travel.
Some favorite methods include planes,
hot air balloons,
those old doohickeys that go chugga-chugga
and then fall apart, and of course,
befriending the birds.
(STUDIO AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
The safety of air travel has made headlines
in recent years, thanks to incidents like these.
TOM COSTELLO: Ten days ago in San Diego,
a Citation business jet nearly landed on top
of a Southwest 737.
(AIRPLANE ENGINE HUMMING)
In Austin last February,
a FedEx plane nearly landed on a Southwest flight,
both cleared for the same runway.
And this photo taken
from a JetBlue cockpit landing in Boston
as a business jet suddenly pulled
onto the same runway without permission.
Well, that is terrifying.
Planes should definitely not be landing on top of each other.
And I say that knowing that there is
a non-zero chance Tom Cruise will hear me
and immediately greenlight a new Mission Impossible
-to do exactly that himself. -(STUDIO AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
I am not saying that he's trying to die on camera.
I'm just saying the only way Tom Cruise
passes away peacefully in his bed
is if the bed is being dropped into an active volcano.
to somehow save "the live movie-going experience."
Now, while those stories are obviously alarming,
it is important to say large,
fatal commercial airline crashes are extremely rare,
and commercial flying is still the safest way
to travel by far.
And one major reason for that is air traffic controllers,
who, as this recruitment video points out,
are really the unsung heroes of the skies.
NARRATOR: Millions take to the skies every day,
and behind their safe flights is a hidden world
that few ever see.
Orchestrating a symphony of aircraft
with expertise and precision,
air traffic controllers are the guardians of the air.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER: It's kind of an adventure.
From start to finish, your entire shift,
you never know what's coming your way,
and that's what makes it exciting.
It's a fun challenge to me.
The harder the challenge for me, it makes it feel like
the greater the victory.
We think kind of three steps ahead,
and then we have, like, nine backup plans
to those three steps ahead.
Yeah, it's a lot.
Air traffic controllers have to be constantly vigilant.
It's not like a normal job where you start a task,
then check Reddit for a few hours,
then go back to it, but then it's lunch,
then you start the task again,
but then you need a coffee, then you get sucked
into a conversation with fucking Derek,
so you vent to your pal Jeanine about how much Derek sucks,
then you go back to work,
then you see Jeanine laughing
with fucking Derek about something, and you think,
"Wait, are Jeanine and Derek friends? Oh, shit."
Then it's 6:00 p.m.,
and whatever you had to do really feels more
like a tomorrow thing anyway.
-Unlike that... -(STUDIO AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
...air traffic controllers actually have to get shit done.
Together, they ensure the safety
of about two million passengers per day.
But as you've undoubtedly noticed,
there have been signs that our system
is under extreme strain, like this story from last month
about massive delays at Newark.
KRIS VAN CLEAVE: Monday's bad weather complicated
an air traffic control staffing nightmare
that started last Monday.
After a number of system outages,
controllers' screens essentially went dark
for up to 90 seconds,
losing the ability to track aircraft at a key facility
handling traffic in and out of Newark.
It was a breaking point
for about a half dozen controllers,
who requested trauma leave due to the working conditions.
Yeah, it was so bad,
some controllers took trauma leave.
And I really hope they spent that time recovering
in a place more comforting than Newark,
very much the New Jersey of places in New Jersey.
(STUDIO AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
And that's not all. In January, a passenger jet
and a military helicopter collided near Reagan Airport,
killing 67 people.
That happened just days after Trump's inauguration,
and he rose to meet the moment with his characteristic empathy
and poetic turn of phrase.
I guess the helicopter was high.
And we'll find out exactly what happened.
But the odds, even if you had nothing,
if you had nobody,
the odds of that happening are extremely small.
It's like, did you ever see-- You go to a driving range
in golf, and you're hitting balls,
hundreds of balls, thousands of hours.
I never see a ball hit another ball.
Balls going up all over the place,
you never see 'em hit.
It was amazing that that could happen.
There was a lot of mistakes made,
and it should have never happened, but...
Regardless of that, it's amazing that it happened.
-You know... -(AUDIENCE GROANING, LAUGHING)
...it's hard to know what to focus on there.
The phrase, "Even if you had nothing,
if you had nobody,"
which sounds like a Tim McGraw song
that'd play during the credits
of Trolls 4: For Whom The Bell Trolls.
(STUDIO AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
Or comparing a deadly aviation disaster
to a fluke golfing event.
Who among us hasn't been on a plane
during rough turbulence wondering
if the worst is about to happen and thought, "You know,
this is just like when the president's hitting
hundreds of beautiful golf balls
at one of his many high-class resorts.
Those balls almost never hit each other, and if they did,
it would be amazing.
(STUDIO AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
And while the investigation into that crash is ongoing,
the preliminary report suggested that
among many other problems,
there was a shortage of controllers that night,
with one person doing both helicopter control
and local flight control combined.
And just two months later, there was another close call
at that same airport,
after which it emerged that a supervisor
in the tower had been accused of punching
another controller in the face,
leading the FAA to dispatch a team
of mental health professionals
to offer confidential stress management support
for controllers.
And all of this is bringing into sharp focus
just how stressful this job is
and how understaffed most facilities are.
Because while we'd ideally have
over 14,000 certified professional controllers,
we currently have just under 11,000,
and apparently 99 percent of
air traffic control facilities in the US
are operating below recommended staffing levels.
Controllers have been sounding the alarm
about all of this for a while now.
At the end of 2023, it was reported
that potentially dangerous close calls
have been happening multiple times a week,
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