There's something about air traffic that is very HackerNews. Search for "air traffic" to see what I mean. Maybe it's something about coordinating big complex systems, or maybe radio chatter is nerdy, I don't know, but it does make sense to me.
Maybe that's it then, still find it odd how the news that something almost happened is related to HN. I would understand it if the investigation showed a system failure or something similar.
