“The conditions described by the NTSB are not an accident in the broader social sense. They are the product of a system in which safety is subordinated to cost-cutting, understaffing and technological patchwork. There is no technical reason why a major airport in 2026 should rely on overnight staffing levels that leave controllers juggling multiple positions, or why emergency vehicles operating near active runways should lack equipment needed for full visibility. Nor is there any rational basis for workers responsible for hundreds of lives to labor under conditions where fatigue has repeatedly emerged as a known danger. Under capitalism, however, every necessary safeguard is treated as an expense to be minimized. The result is a chain of preventable hazards that only becomes visible after lives have already been lost.“

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