[Enterprise]

Obviously, since they were committed to having all female crews, they gave her a crash course so she could be certified.

[Secret Agent Man]

I see what you did there. :)

[Strict9]

at least we know now why it crashed

[T.B. Yoits]

A corollary to Coulter's Law is still true; "the longer it takes to identify the offender, the less likely it is that it's a white male.

If it was a white male pilot, their face would be plastered all over.

[1Old Pro]

Talk about breaking the glass ceiling, she absolutely crushed it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

In a related story, I’ve been looking at that crash over and over. To me, it looks as though when the plane gets closer to the runway, the right landing gear is lower than the left landing gear and it hits the runway first. JMO.

[Sacajaweau]

I’m guessing there was a co-pilot.

[null and void]

*groan*

[toast]

They have to have 1500 flight hours before they are certified.

[Vendome]

Kendal Swanson, a beauty pageant winner out of Minnesota..

 

Not even...

 

 

[Palio di Siena]

Any landing that one can walk away from….

[al baby]

[kawhill]

Maybe she was trying to find the joystick and got distracted.

[Tommy Revolts]

[Sequoyah101]

So? All candidates and employees are equal aren’t they? /s

[Bratch]

[StAnDeliver]

PIC on the com was a man, sooo. The simplest most noble action is to boycott ENDEAVOR AIR until all the facts are known, preferably in a courtroom.

[MtnClimber]

Were the all-female crew DIE hires?

[JSM_Liberty]

“sources claiming”

Sounds like solid evidence to me.

[Churchillspirit]

Depends what "certified" means.

A friend, with 25 years as a qualified commercial airliner pilot - 15 of them as a captain, was recently promoted to fly 777s. After 'certification' classes, status will be 'recently qualified'.

Context is everything.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Rumors (and take them as such until proven) on X were that the Captain is a male with 20 years of experience - but that he had failed in an attempt to move up to a First Officer seat at the big airline and had been in charge of conducting simulator training at Endeavor until recently, so he had less recent flying time than might be expected. He was handling the radios.

Girl First Officer was flying the plane - just got her ATP certificate in January. She has been flying smaller aircraft for a long time so does not lack experience in the air but she does not have many hours in the type - especially handling difficult crosswind landings.

How much of this was DEI promotion and how much was just the generic state of regional air crew hiring in 2025 remains to be seen. But if true it's a huge black eye for a lot of executives.