Air travel has had a lot of bad press lately. From fatal crashes to nearly inexplicable events (like “landing” a plane upside down on a runway), airlines are not sending warm fuzzy messaging that invites travelers to hop on an airliner.
— Two small planes collided in midair near an Arizona airport in mid-February, killing two people who were on one of the aircraft. Following the collision, one plane landed uneventfully but the other hit the ground near a runway and caught fire. The crash happened at Marana Regional Airport near Tucson.
— A small commuter plane crashed in western Alaska in early February, killing all 10 people on board. The crash was one of the deadliest in the state in 25 years. Radar data indicated that the plane rapidly lost elevation and speed. The Coast Guard was unaware of any distress signals from the aircraft.
— A medical transport plane that had just taken off plummeted into a Philadelphia neighborhood in late January, killing all six people on board and one person on the ground. The National Transportation Safety Board said its cockpit voice recorder likely hadn’t been functioning for years. The crew made no distress calls to air traffic control.
— The collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter above the nation’s capital killed everyone aboard both aircraft in late January. It was the deadliest plane crash in the U.S. since Nov. 12, 2001, when a jet slammed into a New York City neighborhood just after takeoff, killing all 260 people on board and five on the ground.
— A jetliner operated by Jeju Air skidded off a runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames in late December in South Korea after its landing gear apparently failed to deploy. All but two of the 181 people aboard were killed in one of that country’s worst aviation disasters.
The NTSB reports 156 aircraft-related incidents in 2025 so far, which is not actually excessive. You have to go back to 2019 to find fewer incidents in the first two months of a year, keeping in mind that this number includes all incidents involving one or more aircraft, most of which have neither injury or fatality.
A helicopter flying into a passenger plane over the Potomac is tragic, well-reported news. Planes “touching” at the terminal or a close call on the taxiway, not so much, but there are plenty of them. Another less well-reported reality of air travel is the cost of housing illegals at local airports. A handful of reports published here alerted travelers to the problem. Chicago and Boston caught our attention, but the matter is more widely practiced – we can assume than advertised.
Who paid for that may have been on someone’s mind, but the Handmiaden media never found the time to ask those sorts of questions. And why would they? Displacement is a necessary step in the progressive agenda to transform America. Asking about that cost – when a 36 trillion dollar inflation-fueled deficit is of little interest – interferes with the empathy narrative. But someone was paying.
The Massachusetts Port Authority, after being pressured by Congress,
“coughed up documents that show it spent $779,000 in extra public safety, transportation, and janitorial services to deal with the estimated 5,500 migrants that flew into the airport between July 2023 and July 2024, the Herald reported this past week.
Some of that cost — $332,000 — was covered by folding it into the rates and charges paid by airlines while the rest, $447,000, was shouldered by the Massachusetts Port Authority.
Folded into the rates and charges paid by airlines.
Translation: Air travelers paid for that. The carriers didn’t just suck up the costs, they passed them down to their customers, many of whom were Massachusetts taxpayers who were already on the hook for an estimated billion dollars to care for the Demcorat Party’s human pets.
Massachusetts and Boston, in particular, are the object of Federal scrutiny for harboring and hiding the illegal aliens. Yes, the state that houses children and pedophiles together, which declared a state of emergency and called up its national guard to help while begging residents to house them, has been reluctant to help send them back home. It has not risen to the level that made Maine Governor Janet Mills infamous, but it’s a thing. Bay State Dems have been using lots of words to suggest they will oppose federal efforts to remove foreign criminals from within its borders.
Hiding felons. The aiding and abetting criminals from fentanly dealing gangs and human traffickers to rapists. And it’s a safe tack to take. Getting a Republican elected to anything (who is an actual Republican) in Massachusetts is like trying to get zombies to swear off eating brains. You admit you have a problem, and Massholes keep electing Democrats to run their government (some of whom are registered as Republicans).
Expect the Department of Justice to get a little heavy-handed with the elected leadership while the Treasury holds federal funds until someone cries uncle, and they will. Democrats don’t care about anything but money, so it is the perfect leverage. Dems love taxes, and there is no such thing as enough spending. But the idea that they’d have to make the people who elected them pay for all of it is something even Democrat voters won’t tolerate.
