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Air Traffic Control: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment covers the working conditions of US air traffic controllers and the understaffing, outdated equipment (including floppy disks) and funding structure of the FAA. It mixes comedy with policy criticism.
HN links it in threads on FAA modernization and controller shortages as an entertaining but substantive summary of the problem.
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