Don’t Blame DEI for Crash at Reagan National Airport. Blame Ronald Reagan

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-real-problem-at-the-core-of-dc-plane-collision/

As has been widely noted, and as an official with extensive experience in airport operations affirmed to the Daily Beast on Thursday, the whole system is still suffering from the firing of 11,000 striking air traffic controllers in 1981 by the president for whom Reagan National Airport is named. The new controllers who took their place had a mandatory retirement age of 56, and many of them have been departing in recent years. An early FAA report after Wednesday’s crash noted that a single air traffic controller was doing work that customarily would have been done by two.