On Monday afternoon during an NBC News Special Report, NBC senior correspondent and longtime aviation reporter Tom Costello directly linked Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to the Delta Airlines crash in Toronto that, fortunately, all 76 passengers survived (as of this blog’s publication).
Costello had noted the flight took off from Minneapolis, Minnesota for what is a regular flight when he made this pivot to asserting without evidence the crash will “yet again, raise the concern about FAA staffing — air traffic control staffing.”
He even admitted this flight landed in Canada was thus under the purview of “a Canadian air traffic control tower and this is under Canadian authority once it crosses the border,” but he didn’t care and thus went about with the use of “and yet” to make his case to Tom Llamas.
“As know, there has been this talk about maybe staff cuts at the FAA …