News · moment 5 of 20
The Air Traffic Controller Who Left Early
from The D.C. Plane Crash & RFK’s Hearing | The Tim Dillon Show #429 · #429
4 min
News
He reads a news report about a supervisor allowing an air traffic controller to leave early before the crash, riffing that the person should feel guilty, and imagining a fictional "Thomas" being told to go home and watch The Good Place.
- Air traffic controllers were so absent that one was allowed to leave early before the Reagan National Airport crash.
- A supervisor combined the duties of handling helicopter and plane traffic, then let one controller leave before 9:30 p.m., outside normal procedure.
- Tim says if he'd been the one who left early, it wouldn't weigh on his conscience because he's a strong person who's endangered people his whole life.
- He describes being a terrible lifeguard where people nearly drowned until their parents jumped in to save them.
- The controller who left early is probably crying at a therapist while Tim says he would've just owned the decision and blamed the supervisor.
- Normally helicopter and plane traffic duties are divided until 9:30 p.m., then combined when traffic lessens, but the supervisor combined them early anyway.
- Tim speculates the supervisor combined the duties early because they're trying to curry favor with someone they're probably having sex with.
- Tim imagines the supervisor telling the controller, presumably named Thomas, to go home and watch TV while everything's handled.
- He references 'The Good Place,' a sitcom from years ago co-created by the creator of 'Hacks,' as what Thomas should watch instead.
- Tim asks what the supervisor thought would happen—a plane plunging into the Potomac—before telling the controller to leave.
Reagan National AirportAmerican AirlinesThe Good Place