Imagine being an air traffic controller and suddenly having TWO aircraft responding to the same callsign.
That is exactly what happened in Phoenix late Thursday night.
American Airlines had two Boeing 737-800s operating as AA2482 — one arriving from Chicago (ORD), while another was preparing to depart Phoenix (PHX) for Chicago.
The inbound AA2482 finally touched down at 12:13 AM, more than 90 minutes behind schedule.
The outbound AA2482, meanwhile, was already airborne after departing PHX at 11:58 PM.
For a period, both aircraft ended up on the same ATC frequency with the same callsign: “American 2482.”
The controller says, "I've been working air traffic for 25 years, I've never seen two aircraft pretty much merge with the same callsign."
Props to that ATC! So calm and professional! His use of 'arrival' and 'departure' to designate each aircraft was incredibly quick thinking for the controller.
📹: theaviationcircle
🚨#BREAKING: A 23-year-old is being hailed as a hero after he saw a woman TRAPPED ON THE TRAIN TRACKS with a train coming...
...so he sprinted out of his car and LIFTED THE RAILROAD CROSSING ARM WITH HIS BARE HANDS so she could reverse off the rails.
The train passed SECONDS later. ❤️
His name is Josiah Baur, and he is 23 years old from Port St. Lucie, Florida.
It happened last Friday around 5 p.m. in Hobe Sound, at Bridge Road and Dixie Highway.
Debbie made a turn onto the tracks, and the crossing arm came down right on top of her car. Her antenna caught on the gate.
She was pinned between the gates, sitting on the rails.
Debbie: "Then I realized that I was trapped; it was absolutely trapped."
Dash cam video from another driver caught the whole thing. You can hear the train horn getting closer to her little red car.
Debbie: "I know for sure somebody might come up from behind and help me, but you know didn't happen, and then all of a sudden I looked, and I saw my guardian angel coming over the track."
That person was Josiah.
He had left work late and was in a hurry to get home. He was stopped on the OTHER side of the tracks, looked down at his phone, then looked back up.
"I see Miss Debbie's car stuck on the train tracks with the arm down behind it... She's going to get hit, so I threw it in parking and just took off running."
And while he was running, he was doing math.
He was watching the train. How far out it was. How many seconds he had AND which side of the track it was coming down.
"When I noticed it was on her side of track, I'm like, OK, now or never, we gotta do this."
He got to the gate, put both arms under it, and PUSHED IT UP.
Debbie threw it in reverse and backed off the rails.
Then the train went through.
Debbie: "I don't know how many seconds passed by and then the train came right by, so it was a close call. It was very close."
A woman named Lizzy Dominguez was in the car right behind Josiah, watching it all, unable to move.
"We were just saying, 'Please, God, please, God, please, God.' We were frozen in the car. We couldn't move."
She took a photo of Josiah and posted it to a local Facebook group because she did not know his name and wanted to find him.
She said they had just watched a miracle.
Josiah said he does not think he did anything special.
"People say she's a stranger to me, but she's a child of God just like I am."
And this: "I'm just very fortunate that God put me right where I was."
That Sunday, Debbie and Josiah met back up at the same railroad crossing. They hugged.
Debbie: "I won't ever forget what he's done for me. He is a true American hero."
She is taking his whole family out to dinner.
GOD BLESS Josiah Baur.
THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren
She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements.
Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service.
JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes.
The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%.
For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%.
Warren said no.
She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.
Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year.
Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug.
510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December.
14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight.
And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms.
Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back.
40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market.
And the math ain’t mathing.
Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.
That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.”
So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money?
Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years.
Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do.
Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.”
A win.
14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight.
And she’s taking credit.
This is socialism in 2026.
A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company.
She saved you a billion on imaginary paper.
She cost you ten times that in real life.
She didn’t protect consumers from anything.
14,000+ will go from working to welfare.
She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed.
Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything.
She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.
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@CryptoJack1986@TerriblePic@MattWallace888 The two pit bulls that attacked also attacked two other dogs resulting in them killing one back in January. This isn't the first time this owner has had his dogs attack other dogs & probably won't be the last because the laws protect him in NY and the police can't do anything.
My stepson is in the military bringing baggage back including medical equipment for me and @BreezeAirways has lost it with no way to contact any staff in order to help locate it. Awesome job!
Awesome can't send a tattoo photo to another 18+ player I've been friends with for years without losing access to my multiplayer games or social communications with no way to contact @PlayStation glad I bought some Black Friday deals! First offense w/ having account forever!
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To my fans I’m going to always give it everything I have. I’m a ruthless warrior & Katie is my buddy but Damn her best attribute is her head. No punching power but hard ass head lol.