One of the reasons the FAA is dangerously short on Air Traffic Controllers is because they turned away at least 1,000 fully qualified applicants. They weren’t hired because they aren’t “minorities.” Applications turned in by Whites, especially White males, were simply tossed in the trash. Apparently it’s true that racist Democrat DEI hiring practices had a significant role to play in D.C.’s recent crash catastrophe.
FAA discrimination
The FAA was defending a class action lawsuit long before an American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter collided over Washington, D.C.
It seems that the Federal Aviation Administration was hit with the suit last year. Plaintiffs allege the agency “had denied 1,000 would-be air traffic controllers jobs because of diversity hiring targets.”
That’s a crucial revelation since “it was revealed staffing levels were ‘not normal‘ at the time of this week’s deadly midair collision.” On January 31, “complaints” about FAA hiring policies resurfaced.
At least 67 people were killed “in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter century.” Progressive policies may not be the only cause but seem to be a major contributing factor to the crash.
As detailed in the litigation, lead plaintiff Andrew Brigida alleges that the FAA was so obsessed with “diversity hiring and inclusion” that “an accident was likely to happen.” It has happened, exactly as predicted.
The controller watching over both the commercial jet and the military chopper was doing the job of two that day. After a colleague was allowed to check out early. One day after a flight had to be waved off from landing due to a near miss.
Biographical assessment
The job is a critical one which the flying public relies on for their lives. While Barack Obama was occupying the White House, the FAA “dropped a skill-based system for hiring controllers and instead replaced it with a ‘biographical assessment‘ in an alleged bid to boost the number of minority job applicants.”
They would rather hire a transgender person of color, with no clue on how to direct air traffic, over any fully qualified Caucasian.
Andrew Brigida happens to be a White male. That’s the only reason he wasn’t hired.
After graduating “from Arizona State University’s collegiate training initiative in 2013,” he “was turned down for a job even though he had scored 100% on his training exam.” He’s suing the FAA on behalf of everyone else who was treated the same way.
“The airport’s air traffic control facilities have been understaffed for years — with only 19 fully certified controllers on deck as of September 2023.” You can expect the FAA to be changing their hiring policy in the very near future.
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