On Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s Inside Politics, aviation correspondent Pete Muntean told host Dana Bash that it appeared the Delta Airlines flight that crashed in Toronto on Monday did so due to a landing gear malfunction. He also noted how there is no common thread linking it with other recent plane crashes, but that didn’t stop Bash and her assembled panel from noticing “this happening against the backdrop of massive cuts across the federal government, including at the FAA.” Additionally, as CNN ignored its own aviation expert, it wondered if voters would blame Donald Trump and Elon Musk for firing aviation experts at the FAA amid multiple plane crash stories.
Bash began with the dreaded “but,” claiming “I’m back here with our fantastic panel. Let’s broaden it out a little bit to talk about what is going on here in Washington. As he…
