Not my wheelhouse but this is horrific and needs more attention than it's getting. The safety nets that protect workers in many industries across America have been under unprecedented pressure in recent years. It's not just aviation.
Outlining the structure of my Potomac Mid-Air article is challenging because it's not an event chain, it's an event web, and every part is so dependent on the other parts, it's like an informational ouroboros where no one component can be explained without explaining the others first.
I might have spent the entire day today looking at spreadsheets of DCA slots and traffic count data...