We are at the point where the airlines put quota pilots on the planes based on their gender and skin color, but they hide the horror stories from the bigwigs. Written by Zsolt Jeszenszky.
Many times, it only depends on a hair so that tragedy does not occur. In accordance with the DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) directive
mandatory quotas are introduced for companies; this is how they hire completely incompetent people into responsible positions and endanger the lives of hundreds and thousands.
In December 2022, a United Airlines Boeing 777 took off from Kahlua Airport in Hawaii and climbed to almost 7,000 meters in order. Then it suddenly began to plummet and approached the sea at a speed of 900 km/h. The pilot managed to pull up the nose of the plane at the last moment, 230 meters above the water. The flight then continued its journey and eventually flew to San Francisco without incident.
No one heard about the case for two months, then it only appeared in the news. United said at the time that the pilots would receive additional training and reported the incident to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which will investigate. By the end of 2023, there was some sort of explanation:
it turned out the captain had ordered the flaps to be set to five degrees, the normal position for takeoff. However, the co-pilot took it as 15 degrees, for which the plane was traveling too fast. In order to find the problem, the captain began to slow down the plane. The co-pilot, instead of realizing his mistake, said that the instruments might be at fault. Finally, the plane's automatic emergency warning system indicated that they were going to crash if they didn't pull the plane up with full force, which they did.
Both pilots continue to work for the company. However, we don't know much about them. So much so that the captain was 55 years old and had 19,600 hours of flight time behind him, five thousand of which were on this type of aircraft. That's pretty convincing. The co-pilot has 5,300 hours of flight experience, not bad, but he only had 120 hours of experience with the 777. According to leaked information, he was a recent employee at the company.
And United has made it clear in numerous press statements that pilots are hired primarily based on their gender and skin color, not their competencies.
Speaking of another case - on July 29, one of their planes was almost completely damaged after a hard landing - the airline received the following questions: Who was the captain? Was the co-pilot really a former flight attendant who was fired and then brought back by United as part of their diversity program? Did this person really fail multiple times during training, including the simulator test? Did United really cover up this case, like so many others?
United did not respond. After all, we don't need to know; just believe that flight attendants at United's training school magically become master pilots.
United also cooperates with several institutions of higher education specifically educating black people. Two of their top partners, Delaware State and Elizabeth City State University, rank in the bottom two percent of all universities in the United States. At one time, Elizabeth State was famous for having a lower average score on the national math test than if someone had answered B on every question. This is where they recruit their pilots…
Shouldn't we rather pay attention to skills and preparation? Regardless of what they look like. If one of them is a black woman, great, go for it. But if there aren't any black women among them, that's great too. Because they should be hired on the basis that whoever sits there is the most suitable for this job.
United thinks otherwise. Almost eighty percent of the first 51 students out of their new pilot school are women or people of color. Is it believable that only twenty percent of the most suitable persons are white men?
Don't think this problem is unique to United. In February 2019, a Boeing 767 Amazon Cargo cargo plane, operated by a subcontractor company called Atlas Air, crashed into Trinity Bay near Houston. The co-pilot, Conrad Aska, accidentally pressed a button, which gave the plane an hourly boost and raised its nose. Instead of reacting calmly like a trained pilot, he panicked and forced down the elevator. This caused the plane to crash into the bay.
Aska should never have been in the cockpit of such a plane. Before Atlas Air, he was with seven different airlines and became famous for repeatedly losing control in simulators, panicking and pressing random buttons in emergency situations. He could have ended up in the cockpit after all.
Conrad Aska was born on the island of Antigua. It was black. And Atlas Air, according to their website, prides itself on inclusivity. So we might have some idea how he got into the cockpit…
Experienced, serious pilots are getting fed up. One of them sent a letter to one of the investigators working on the subject, saying that
Every airline has an unofficial policy regarding pilots. Based on this, a competent, adult supervisor is always placed next to the "kids" hired in the spirit of diversity, fairness and inclusion, who cannot be fired. This policy is used by aging boomers who are not into progressive fashion. But as they slowly retire and are too few left to stand up to the social justice warriors, sooner or later every flight becomes a random roll of the dice. And all of a sudden there will be one where there will be two totally unfit quota pilots in the cockpit. Let us pray for the passengers on that plane; they will need it.
Unfortunately, the matter does not "stop" in the air. Down on the ground, the situation is no better. In 2013, during Obama's presidency, the head of the aviation authority announced that he would make the office a more diverse workplace. It is enough to have a high school diploma, speak English, and manage to pass a basic math test that corresponds to the level of the 3rd grade of elementary school.
The program is certainly successful:
the proportion of white men among airport controllers has decreased significantly over ten years. And the number of people of color has increased significantly. And what else has grown significantly? Number of near misses! According to a database maintained by NASA based on pilot reports, their number has more than doubled in ten years.
In 2023, there were more than three hundred such cases. Good thing a dozen made it to the news…
For example, the case in Florida where a scheduled Allegiant Air flight and a Gulf Stream business jet almost collided during landing. The collision avoidance warning system, i.e. TCAS, was activated on the planes, and the pilot of one of the planes pulled the plane up, and the other headed down, thus avoiding a collision.
But there was also a near-collision on the runways at New York's JFK airport, one of the busiest places in the world. A scheduled American Airlines flight and a private plane almost collided without the control center noticing or doing anything to prevent it. Fortunately, the American Airlines pilots spotted the other plane at the last moment and stopped.
So: they diversified the authority; near collisions doubled. They claim:
"The FAA's mission is to make the airspace safe for a diverse nation".
But the task of the aviation authority would not be this, but to prevent accidents where hundreds of people could die. Of course
everyone knows deep down that diversity doesn't really matter. As a passenger, no one cares about the skin color or gender of the pilot or the ground controller, but whether they can drive an airplane or manage airport traffic. Or running a software that "only" affects 21,464 flights a day.
The takeoff of this many scheduled planes was scheduled for January 11, 2023, when traffic stopped at all airports in the United States.
IT system operators must also hire workers based on quotas. The workers should be sufficiently colorful, there should be many women and all kinds of minorities, disadvantaged people, etc. among them. Let's say they can't keep airplanes in the air, but who cares?
And there is also fresh news: a door and a window were torn from the side of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 from Oregon to California. Thank God no one was injured as they were not sitting in that row and they had not yet reached flight height so their seat belts were on. The plane turned back and made an emergency landing.
What was not mentioned much in the news, however, is that Spirit Aerosystems, the manufacturer of doors for Boeing, also enthusiastically advertises diversity propaganda on its website. Fifty percent of their employees were fired during the Covid closures. What was the basis of their decision when hiring new people?
By the way, they are also being sued because an inspection found miscalibrated pliers among the tools, which may have caused the set screws to be tightened too much or not enough. Could this be why the door broke? Maybe the mechanics and engineers have no idea what they are doing? But at least there are enough lesbian women of color among them...
Featured image: Bloomberg
