It's not just pilots. Judges and doctors and military leaders are also being chosen just for being non-white and/or female and to hell with merit.
https://thenewamerican.com/equity-over-safety-did-an-affirmative-action-pilot-crash-a-plane/
feb 25 2023 The pilot had a history of acting “impulsively” during training and “an inability to remain calm during stressful situations,” an investigator said. These deficits would prove deadly, too, one fateful February day.
That’s right, Conrad Aska’s checkered flying past didn’t prevent him from being at the helm of Atlas Air Flight 3591, a cargo-carrying Boeing 767-375ER(BCF) traveling from Miami to Houston. But this wasn’t training, and when Aska hit the wrong
switch as a result of turbulence and then became disoriented when the plane accelerated, he inadvertently plunged the craft into an unrecoverable dive.
This happened back on February 23, 2019. But exactly four years later, on Thursday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson used the tragic incident as a cautionary tale: Lowering standards in anything’s name — including “diversity’s” — can kill.
In fairness, we don’t know for certain that 44-year-old Aska, who was born in Antigua, kept his job due to affirmative action and “equity.” After all, crash investigators learned that he’d “withheld parts of his work history from the air
carrier to conceal his troubles at other airlines,” reported ABC 13 in 2020. It’s also true that with pilots being in limited supply — there may be a shortfall of 30,000 pilots by 2025 — airlines may be scraping the bottom of the barrel looking
for candidates to fill positions.
Just consider what Atlas Air, Aska’s employer, has on its website. “We leverage diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as a business strategy and driver of innovation,” the company states. “We are guided by DEI philosophy.” Of course, if this
means its planes are guided by DIE hires, well, Houston, we have a problem.
Just consider a 2021 tweet (below) in which United Airlines proudly announced its intention to ensure that 50 percent of the 5,000 pilots they train in the next decade will be women or “people of color.”
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