On the latest Last Week Tonight, John Oliver looked into the shortage of air traffic controllers in the US, leading to airport delays and contributing to aviation safety issues. Oliver first noted that large, fatal commercial airline crashes are extremely rare, and that commercial is still by far the safest way to travel. And one major reason for that is air traffic controllers, which Oliver called “the unsung heroes of the sky”.
“Air traffic controllers have to be constantly vigilant,” he explained on Sunday evening. “It’s not like a normal job where you start a task, then check Reddit for a few hours, then go back to it, but then it’s lunch, then you start the task again but you need a coffee, then you get sucked into a conversation with fucking Derek, so you vent to your pal Jeanine about how much Derek sucks, then you go back to work, then you see Jeanine and Derek laughing about something and you think wait are Jeanine and Derek friends? Oh shit! Then it’s 6pm and whatever you had to do really feels more like a tomorrow thing anyway.”
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