{"id":2145666,"date":"2024-01-10T16:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T21:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-dei-rot-in-the-airline-industry-is-way-worse-than-you-think\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T16:43:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T21:43:46","slug":"the-dei-rot-in-the-airline-industry-is-way-worse-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-dei-rot-in-the-airline-industry-is-way-worse-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"DEI Rot in Airlines: Worse Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-dei-rot-in-the-airline-industry-is-way-worse-than-you-think%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2145666&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Incredible Near-Disaster: United \u200cAirlines \u200dFlight Almost Plunges \u200binto the Ocean<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In December of 2022, a Boeing 777 operated by\u2062 United Airlines \u2062took off from \u2062Hawaii in heavy \u2064rain. About \u2063a minute into the flight, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/screams-on-the-plane-united-flight-was-5-to-5-2-seconds-from-hitting-pacific-ocean-passenger-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the aircraft plummeted<\/a> towards the ocean. It came just 750 feet from hitting the water at high-speed, which almost certainly would\u2064 have killed all 280 people on board. In the end, \u2064the pilots\u200b saved the aircraft by a matter of seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Months of Silence and Lack of Transparency<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more than two months, no one heard\u200b about this incident. It was as if it had never happened. By the time mainstream \u200bnews reports began appearing in February, more than two months\u200b later, United\u200d assured the\u200d public that the FAA had been notified and that an investigation would be forthcoming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Notice how there\u2019s not much curiosity from the anchor about why this incident\u200b took so long for the airline \u200cto disclose to \u2063the public. There\u2019s also not much of an explanation about what happened. \u200bIt\u2019s implied that the pilots may have made a mistake, because they\u2019re\u2064 getting more \u201ctraining.\u201d But what mistake did they make exactly?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Mistake that Almost Ended in Disaster<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Late last year, we got something of an official answer. It turns out that, according\u2063 to the NTSB, the captain called for the flaps to be retracted to the 5 degree setting, which is a normal setting for takeoff. But the first officer thought the captain had called for a 15\u200c degree setting, so he selected that one. That misunderstanding caused a major \u2063problem\u200d because the plane was going far too fast for that\u200d flap setting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To avoid\u200d damaging the plane, the captain started to slow the aircraft while he tried \u200bto diagnose the problem. Instead of realizing his mistake, the first officer suggested that maybe the instruments were malfunctioning. The two pilots\u200d continued \u200cto troubleshoot the problem, and in the process \u200bthey became disoriented as the plane \u200bquickly lost altitude. The pilots\u2019 confusion continued\u200d until the plane blared an alarm telling them they were about to die if they didn\u2019t \u2064apply \u200cmaximum power and pull up.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/240110me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Incredibly, both pilots of that flight are still employed by \u200cUnited Airlines. They nearly killed everyone on board through their incompetence, but that\u2019s not disqualifying apparently. Beyond some basic information about their flying experience, we still\u200c don\u2019t know much about these two pilots. For example,\u200c we \u200dknow that the\u200d first officer has a total of 5,300 hours of flying experience, which is respectable for his position.\u200c But at the \u2062time of the incident, he only \u2062had\u200b 120 hours in\u200b the\u2063 Boeing 777. And according to a report by Tucker Carlson last year, \u2064which \u200ccited an anonymous source at United shortly after this near-catastrophe took place, this first officer was a \u201cnew hire\u201d at the airline. Could that lack of experience have played a role? \u2063And more to the point, could either of the pilot\u2019s identity have played a role in their hiring \u2014\u200c or the airline\u2019s refusal to terminate them after they almost steered a passenger jet into the ocean?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We don\u2019t know. \u2064We\u2019re \u200cnot allowed to know because the federal government and the airline don\u2019t want us to know any more information about the identity \u2063of these pilots, or any of their pilots who are involved in near-disasters. There is an ongoing information blackout about these kinds of events, and it\u2019s deliberate. But in their various\u200b public statements and press releases, United Airlines has made it very clear that they\u2019re mainly interested in hiring pilots on the basis of skin color and gender, rather than competence. In fact,\u2064 they participated in a Vice documentary \u200dback in 2022 about\u2063 their DEI initiatives.\u2063 Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Questionable Diversity Initiatives<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So a \u2064couple of years ago, United decided that 50% of its new pilot recruits are going to be women or people\u2063 of color. They\u2019re promoting flight attendants to make that happen. Later on\u2064 in that\u200d Vice documentary, it\u2019s suggested that\u200b the point of this initiative is to alleviate the pilot shortage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How\u2019s that going? A few\u200b days ago, the conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair posed a few\u200c questions to United, \u2064based on some information she had received. Here\u2019s\u200d what she wrote: \u201cOn July\u2062 29, a United plane was nearly totaled after a hard landing. Who was flying that\u2062 aircraft? Was the co-pilot a former flight\u200d attendant who was FIRED and then rehired through\u200b United\u2019s DEI program despite being on a list to not return to United? Am I correct that this individual failed multiple trainings including simulator training? Am I also correct that United has covered up this DEI disaster and many others?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/united?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@united<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>On July 29, a United plane\u2063 was\u2064 nearly totaled after a hard landing<\/p>\n<p>Who was flying that aircraft?\u200c <\/p>\n<p>Was the co-pilot a former flight attendant \u200cwho was FIRED and then rehired through United\u2019s\u200b DEI program despite being on \u2062a\u200b list to not return\u2064 to United?<\/p>\n<p>Am I correct\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stclairashley\/status\/1743346866186514878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">United \u2064didn\u2019t reply, \u2062which you may have noticed\u2062 is something of a pattern. No one thinks we deserve to know anything about what\u2019s going \u200don in \u2063the cockpits of the planes that we\u2019re flying in. You\u2019re just supposed to assume everything\u2019s fine, and that\u200d the flight attendants are transforming into master pilots at United\u2019s training academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the more you look into the specifics of United\u2019s diversity initiatives, the \u200dless\u2063 solid that assumption seems to be. \u2063It turns \u2064out that United partners with several\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">historically black colleges<\/a> and\u2063 universities, or HBCUs, as a way of recruiting pilots. \u200dOne of the popular <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eyeslasho?lang=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">statistics-focused<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u200daccounts on X, which\u2063 uses\u2062 the name i\/o, noticed that two of\u2064 the schools that United has decided to team up with \u2014 Delaware State and Elizabeth City State University \u2014 are, \u201cin the \u200dbottom\u200c 2% of all undergraduate institutions in the United States.\u201d Elizabeth State, the account noted, \u201chad the\u2062 distinction in the 1980s of being \u200cthe only university in which the average\u200c SAT \u200bmath score was lower than that score which would\u2063 have been produced if a person had guessed \u2018B\u2019\u200c on \u200call the \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-wants-to-shame-schools-into-pushing-lgbtq-propaganda\/\" title=\"Schools Must Be Shamed by CDC for Promoting LGBTQ Propaganda\">multiple choice questions<\/a> \u2064on \u200dthe test.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s a pretty sobering \u2063statistic, especially if you plan on flying United anytime soon. To be fair to United,\u200d they don\u2019t\u200d just recruit from HBCUs\u200d with no standards. As a writer who\u200b goes by the pseudonym Peachy Keenan found, United also recruits from an\u200d organization\u200c called \u201cSisters of the Skies.\u201d Yes, this is an organization\u2063 that sends pilots to United \u200dAirlines, \u2063and their acronym is\u200b literally \u201cS.O.S.\u201d At least you can rest assured that they have a sense of humor at United, as your plane is\u2063 plummeting to the ground. \u200cAnd it gets better. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf they see it, they can be it,\u201d at least\u2062 as \u2064long as their parents can pay for flight school. That\u2019s the\u200b message. \u200dAgain, this is an organization that\u2019s training the pilots \u2063that are flying commercial aircraft. This\u200c isn\u2019t\u200c training,\u200d really. It\u2019s like a kindergarten classroom. At no point are these people concerned about safety or\u2064 competence. They want to\u2064 put black women in the cockpit \u2062because they want to inspire more black women, and that makes them feel good \u2014 not because they think they\u2019re getting smarter \u200dor better pilots. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is not some P.R.\u200d stunt. United is \u200cactually following \u2064through with this.\u2064 According\u2064 to United\u2019s latest corporate diversity report, of the 51 students that graduated from United\u2019s first class of pilots, \u201cnearly 80 percent were women or people of color.\u201d So\u2063 they vastly\u2064 exceeded their target of 50%. They\u2019ve almost completely eliminated white men in their\u2064 training classes. We\u2019re led \u2063to believe that \u2064this is progress. Pay no attention \u200dto the planes plummeting towards the\u200b ocean or smashing into the runway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be\u2063 clear, this is a problem that extends far beyond United Airlines. They\u2019re maybe the most vocal about\u2064 their DEI practices, \u200bbut every airline does \u2064this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A few years ago, in February of 2019,\u2064 an Amazon Air cargo plane\u200c \u2014 a Boeing 767 operated by\u2062 a contractor called Atlas \u200bAir \u200d\u2014 plummeted\u2064 into Trinity Bay near Houston. \u2062The reason for that crash? \u2062The first officer, Conrad Aska, accidentally\u200d pressed a\u2062 button giving the plane a massive jolt \u200bin thrust,\u200b which\u2063 pitched the nose \u2063up. Instead of \u2063reacting calmly to the situation, he panicked, and forced the control column all the\u2063 way down. \u2064The plane \u2063broke through the clouds and disintegrated on impact with the water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CLICK\u200c HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Conrad Aska never should have been flying \u200bthat plane. Prior to joining Atlas Air and Amazon, he had worked for seven \u2062different airlines, \u2064where he developed a reputation for pressing random buttons in emergencies. He would always panic\u2063 in\u2064 the simulator \u2062and \u2064just lose all situational awareness. But\u2062 airlines kept putting him in the cockpit anyway. That\u2019s why,\u200b in its final report\u200d on the crash, the N.T.S.B. cited, \u201csystemic deficiencies in\u2063 the aviation industry\u2019s selection and performance measurement practices, which \u200bfailed to address the first officer\u2019s aptitude-related \u200bdeficiencies and maladaptive\u200c stress response.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What explains those \u201csystemic deficiencies\u201d? Well, we can\u2019t say for sure. We do know that Conrad Aska was born in the Caribbean nation of Antigua. He was a black man,\u200b which certainly checks some diversity boxes. And we also know\u2064 that Atlas Air\u2019s website is full of platitudes about \u200bthe importance\u2064 of \u2063hiring candidates based on certain characteristics, \u200blike their race and\u2062 gender. \u200cSo,\u2063 we can\u2064 come to some unauthorized theories here about why\u2062 Conrad Aska \u200dwas flying that plane. \u2063None of them are encouraging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This isn\u2019t to single\u2064 out United or Amazon or Atlas. This kind of diversity \u2063hiring is endemic \u2063in the aviation \u2064industry. Keenan says she\u2019s\u2063 received several messages from pilots warning her\u200d of the danger\u200d in\u200c recent days.\u2063 Here\u2019s one of them: \u201cEvery airline has an informal pilot assignment program that makes sure\u2064 their unfireable DEI problem children are always\u2062 paired with adult supervision. These programs are maintained by aging boomers who are immune to the kool-aid. As these guys retire \u2026 every flight will be a roll of the dice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This \u2064rampant\u2062 DEI mandate \u2062doesn\u2019t just extend to airlines. A few weeks ago on this show, when I predicted that we\u2019re due for a major air disaster soon, I talked mainly about DEI-based hiring \u2063in \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/search-and-rescue-teams-at-site-of-indonesian-plane-crash\/\" title=\"Search and rescue teams at site of Indonesian plane crash\">air traffic control<\/a>. There\u2019s \u2062also a push to \u201cdiversify\u201d the ranks of companies that manufacture and install various airline \u2062parts. That\u200d includes companies like Spirit AeroSystems (no relation to Spirit Airlines), which manufactured that \u2064door that blew out on\u200b the Alaska Airlines flight over Portland the other day. Like United and Atlas Air, Spirit AeroSystems\u2019 website is full of DEI propaganda. In fact, just days before the door blew out on the plane, Spirit executives were posting eagerly on LinkedIn about their next big diversity event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile \u200dthe company knew that they had more serious\u2064 problems. Shortly before their door fell off a passenger plane mid-flight, Spirit AeroSystems was hit with a \u2062class action lawsuit in federal court. In the lawsuit, investors alleged \u2064that Spirit \u200dwas aware of systemic defects in its products, but ignored them and falsified documents to hide them. In one instance, the lawsuit alleges,\u2063 \u201cauditors repeatedly found \u200btorque wrenches in mechanics\u2019 toolboxes that were not properly\u2064 calibrated. This was potentially a serious \u200bproblem, as a torque \u200cwrench that \u200bis out of calibration may not torque \u2062fasteners to the correct levels, resulting\u2062 in over-tightening or under-tightening \u200cthat\u200c could threaten the structural integrity\u200b of the parts\u2063 in question.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the mechanics didn\u2019t want to comply with the \u2063audit. \u2063According to the lawsuit, \u201cSome mechanics would not even let auditors take such out-of-calibration tools, locking toolboxes \u2064or yanking them back out\u200d of the auditors\u2019 hands to prevent the audit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Obviously,\u200d if these accusations \u200bare even remotely true, they reveal some very concerning problems at a company that makes critical components for passenger planes. So how did things get so \u200cbad? It turns out that, according to the lawsuit, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/wichita\/news\/2020\/07\/31\/spirit-aerosystems-announces-more-wichita-layoffs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spirit fired<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  roughly 50% of its workforce in response\u2063 to the COVID lockdowns. They terminated many \u201cexperienced mechanics\u201d in response to the economic consequences of those shutdowns,\u2062 according to the suit.\u200b How did Spirit decide who to retain after these completely unnecessary lockdowns? How did they decide who to hire after the lockdowns ended?\u2064 Why did they keep the engineers who apparently don\u2019t understand how to calibrate \u200btheir torque wrenches?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you take Spirit AeroSystems\u2064 at \u2063its word, they probably hired a bunch\u200d of \u201cdiverse\u201d mechanics. That\u2019s what all of their marketing materials and \u200cinvestor pitches would dictate. But the truth is, at this point, we can\u2019t be more specific\u2064 than that. Is it possible that \u2064a crack team of mechanics manufactured the doors\u200c on all these\u200c United and Alaska Air planes? As of now, yes it is. Maybe the fault lies not with Spirit, but \u200bwith Boeing, which has been\u2062 in decline ever since it made the decision to to outsource key elements of its business to overseas programmers and penny-pinchers in Chicago. Maybe Boeing installed the door improperly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But at a certain point, we\u2019re entitled to\u200b some answers. We shouldn\u2019t have to guess or speculate \u200dabout this. \u2063We should know the qualifications \u200band the identities of \u2063the people manufacturing and installing these airplane doors, just like we should know the qualifications and identities of the United\u2064 pilots who \u2063are skimming the water \u200bwith\u200b Boeing passenger jets. We shouldn\u2019t \u200bhave any doubts about their competence. We\u2019re the ones who just funded the bailouts for all of these companies. \u2064We\u2019re the ones risking our \u200clives to board their planes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And, \u2064yes, the situation is that dire.\u200c Last night I put out a general invitation to\u200c commercial airline pilots to message me \u2014 anonymously, if they prefer \u2063\u2014 \u200dto tell me their \u2064firsthand experience \u2063of how DEI is impacting their profession. I\u2019m still going through all of the messages \u2014 I received a\u2062 lot of them \u2014 but what I can tell you is that, as I\u2062 sit here today, I am not \u200dat all\u2064 eager to ever \u200cboard a plane again. The airline industry is in the process of actively making itself less competent and reliable. To an incredibly dangerous extent. When it comes to the pilots, the old guard \u2014 the masters of their profession, who were hired and promoted based on their skill alone \u2014 are still \u200bmostly in control. But not for long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile\u200b the airline industry is \u2064hiding the truth \u200band lying about the dangers that we face. Like the COVID cultists who wrecked the economy, the DEI cultists desperately don\u2019t want you thinking about the downstream effects of their ideology. And as a result, every time an airplane takes off in this country, we\u2019re getting \u2064closer and closer to discovering those downstream effects the hard way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What steps should airlines take to prioritize safety and accountability while still\u2063 promoting diversity in their workforce<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ade the decision to prioritize diversity over competence. Or\u200c perhaps it&#8217;s a\u200c combination\u200b of both. Regardless, \u2062what is clear is that the focus on diversity initiatives in the aviation industry is having dangerous consequences.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to\u2063 flying, competence should\u200c be \u2064the top priority. Passengers \u2062put their lives in \u200dthe \u200chands of pilots and trust that they have the necessary skills and experience to \u200dkeep them safe. It should\u200d not matter what the pilot&#8217;s race or gender is, what should matter is their ability to effectively and safely operate an aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The incident involving the United Airlines flight that nearly \u2062plunged into the\u2063 ocean \u200cis \u2064a \u2064glaring example of the potential dangers \u200dof prioritizing diversity over competence. The pilot&#8217;s misunderstanding\u200b of the flap settings and subsequent confusion led to a \u2064dire situation \u200dthat could have ended in tragedy. Yet, both pilots are still employed by the \u2064airline, raising questions about \u200dthe company&#8217;s commitment to safety and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>United Airlines, like many other \u2064airlines, claims to be committed to diversity, and while diversity is important, it should never come at the expense of safety. Hiring decisions should be based on merit and competence, not on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-business-giants-get-lower-interest-rates-for-meeting-diversity-quotas\/\" title=\"How Business Giants Get Lower Interest Rates for Meeting Diversity Quotas\">meeting diversity quotas<\/a>. Flying an aircraft is a complex task that requires extensive training and experience, and it is crucial \u200dthat the most qualified individuals are in control of the cockpit.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 aviation\u2063 industry needs \u2062to reevaluate its priorities. Safety\u200c should always\u200b be the top concern, and decisions \u200dregarding pilot\u200d recruitment and training should be based on merit \u200band skill rather than\u200c diversity quotas.\u200c It \u200bis a disservice to passengers and a potential danger to everyone \u200binvolved when\u200b individuals\u200c are hired\u200b or retained based on characteristics such as race or gender rather than \u2063their ability to perform their\u200d duties competently.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the lack of transparency surrounding \u2063incidents like these is deeply concerning. The public has a right to know the details of what \u200cwent\u200c wrong and what steps are \u200cbeing taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-gif-tiff-sparks-mandatory-anti-racism-training-at-cornell\/\" title=\"Kamala GIF Tiff Sparks Mandatory \u2018Anti-Racism\u2019 Training at Cornell\">prevent similar incidents<\/a> in the future. Concealing information and refusing to answer questions only further erodes trust in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>It is time for the\u200b aviation industry to \u200bprioritize competence and \u200btransparency. The lives of passengers should never be put at risk for the sake of diversity initiatives. The focus should be on ensuring\u200b that highly skilled and qualified individuals are \u200cin\u2062 control of the aircraft, \u200dregardless of their background. Safety should always be the primary concern, and any actions that compromise that safety \u2063must be addressed and rectified immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2022, a United Airlines Boeing 777 departed Hawaii amidst heavy rain. Within a minute, the plane nosedived perilously close to the ocean, missing it by a mere 750 feet. 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