Breach of Federal Agency Degrades Aviation Safety to Deadly Pre-Regulation Era
Anyone who knows anything about safety rules can see the problem: when you gut federal oversight, bad things happen fast. The DOGEans swept into transportation safety agencies like a newly formed Khmer Rouge wrecking ball, and the results are playing out exactly how safety experts have always warned they would. First Tesla, then SpaceX, now aviation – it’s like watching the stability of democratic transit systems crash and burn, deregulated trip by deregulated trip.
Tesla Deaths Per Year
Tesla’s safety numbers are jaw-dropping – the data shows serious incidents climbing faster than their production line can churn out new cars. Remember when lawn darts got banned in the ’80s for killing 3 kids, the Ford Pinto shutdown in the ’70s for killing 27? Tesla’s battery fires and autopilot crashes are making known horrible engineering tragedies of history look like rounding errors.
So is it any wonder that the DOGEan effect on aviation has been an immediate shift to tragedy after tragedy?
Do people understand just how deadly Tesla and SpaceX are? I often think their highly saccharin Zizian cult-like propaganda has made Americans blind to reality of actual dangers.
Do you see the problem? DOGE is failing upwards so fast it is going to be even less successful than the public funding sinkhole tragedy of SpaceX.
Here’s the reality check: NASA ships have reached Mars since 1964, sticking landings since Viking 1 in 1976 – we’re talking eight successful touchdowns including groundbreaking rovers like Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and of course Perseverance. I myself even worked at NASA on Mars terrestrial technology (security related of course). Meanwhile, SpaceX blasted big fat lies out year after year, talking up their Mars game like a new-Rhodesia colonized by 2022, yet they’re still stuck back in Earth orbit blowing up rockets faster than ever before in history. That’s like promising to win the Super Bowl when you haven’t even made it past Pop Warner football without breaking your leg every weekend. A decade of bigger and bigger Mars promises, zero Mars missions, just a bunch of toxic debris.
Let’s connect the obvious dots: a guy who promised Mars colonies by 2022 while his cars’ crash rates outpace production is now influencing national aviation safety. This isn’t about magic fairy dust tech promises of Zizian fantasy anymore, which sank an old abandoned tugboat nobody cared about. DOGEan threats are international, about real public planes in real skies that already put many hundreds or more at risk.
There have been four major deadly U.S. aviation disasters so far this year. They happened within the span of two weeks in Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Alaska and Arizona. …the Washington D.C. crash on Jan. 29 that killed 67 people [blamed on FAA staffing changes] is the only fatal commercial aviation crash in 2025 and in the past 15 years.
The headlines tracking FAA changes read like a countdown clock nobody wanted to see ticking. And based on what we have seen from Tesla and SpaceX’s atrocious safety track records, that’s not the kind of countdown to deaths anyone should ignore.
Related:
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/dc-plane-crash-faa-investigation
- https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-doge-faa-ast-regulation-spaceflight-trump
- https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5149006-elon-musk-spacex-faa/amp/
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/musk-spacex-team-unleashed-faa-193638179.html
- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-ordered-fully-comply-with-order-lifting-funding-freeze-2025-02-10/
- https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-freeze-hiring-air-traffic-controllers-washington-crash-2023348
- https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/virginia/articles/2025-01-31/air-traffic-controllers-were-initially-offered-buyouts-and-told-to-consider-leaving-government
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/trump-administration-faa-worker-firings