Posted on 01/30/2025 9:28:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
The president cited articles that said the FAA was prioritizing hiring people with “severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.”
“The FAA — another story — determined that the workforce was too white. They actually came out with a directive to white and we want the people that are competent,” he said.
“You have to be talented, naturally talented — geniuses — you can’t have regular people doing that, won’t be able to do it, but I will restore faith in American air travel.”
During the Q-and-A period, Trump acknowledged, “We don’t know, necessarily, that it was even the controller’s fault” and also blamed the Black Hawk helicopter’s crew for not spotting the plane.
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Helicopter crew training wearing night vision goggles inside of an airport traffic area is criminally negligent, not to mention stupid.
Seems to me, and I am no expert, but at a minimum, the Helicopter pilot is at fault. Second, the Air Traffic Controller is also at fault. The pilot seems to have been at the wrong altitude and in the wrong place and flew straight into the airliner. However, what was the ATC doing? From the results, the ATC had two courses of action to take: 1. order the helicopter to immediately change course and altitude to with specific instructions; and 2. if that didn’t work, the ATC should have but didn’t, order the airliner to a new course and altitude, and the ATC obviously did not do that either.
Agreed...
“The FAA — another story — determined that the workforce was too white. They actually came out with a directive to white and we want the people that are competent,” he said.
I would have thought that a final approach airspace would be off limits to any and all aircraft that are not in the landing queue. Why was the helo in that airspace to begin with?
Like all corporate media, this headline is a blatant lie.
I heard his press conference. The President stated 2 indisputable facts, only:
1. The FAA has lowered their standards. This is clearly documented and has been since the Sotero era.
2. His admin is dedicated to returning the highest standards to safety-critical areas.
That’s it. Anything else is noise - or, as he so eloquently put it - bullsh!t.
Geeze.
If they all “ synced” that’d be one bitchy flight.
This is Mayor Pete’s disaster.
That does not exclude the Air Traffic Controller.
But I suspect you opinion was right. What I read was it was a DC police Sikorsky H-60 chopper And the path he flew showed he was navigating by the Potomac River. It was at night so he had to be flying by instruments. He made a 15% right turn close to the perimeter of Joint Base Anacostia Bolling, which is on the opposite side of the Potomac River From Reagan Airport.
I am curious about who the pilot of the chopper was. It looked like his path turned right at the last moment.
About 6 months ago I went through Reagan airport. It is a small airport it is very busy. And what I remember about the approach it had several turns on landing approach.
My flight was on Southwest Air Lines. Great company. Flew out of Lubbock and in a week flew back to Lubbock.
I would hope he isn't shooting from the hip on this. He very well should know who was involved if he is going to make a statement like that.
The chopper was on a training flight; maybe he was under the hood and flying under instruments and not visually along with the instructor whose vision was watching instuments also.
In the civilian world the only place one is under the hood near an airport with lots of traffic is on stabilized final approach to Decision Height on a simulated IFR approach. The #0 responsibly of the unhooded pilot is traffic avoidance, in the last mile before DH, if the error gets to large pulling the hood off is a “go around”. 99% of the time its a training problem, but the landing goes normally if there is traffic, or go around VFR stabilized is trained to at least DH .
Sounds like the Black Hawk pilots were not on the right frequency.
The ATC could have issued an abort and climb or turn command, but time was getting late to effect increased separation.
All THAT for just one deposed VP?
“My flight was on Southwest Air Lines. Great company.”
Southwest still has their gross DEI page on their website. If you fly SW you don’t know if the pilot was hired based on their merit or to check some box.
President Trump did NOT blame DEI and unqualified FAA employees for the crash. He said that was a possibility, but they have not yet investigated the cause.
We know they had them at the ready, but do we know if they were wearing them at the time just before the crash?
How about whoever decided it was a good idea to have night training flights while wearing night vision goggles flying around a busy airport at low altitudes and crossing near the end of runways in the path of landing airline flights?
I wonder if the night vision made it harder to see the lights on the plane? Kinds makes everything mono-chrome doesn’t it?
“This might be a bit premature as all the facts have not come in yet.”
We ourselves sure don’t know all the facts, but I’d bet that all the necessary facts have come in — to TPTB. And I don’t think he’d be stating things so strongly if he didn’t know already that DEI might be, or is, a factor.
The public needs to know about the vulnerabilities that DEI has introduced into our lives and safety. The best time to inform the low-I.Q.s of that fact is when they’re horrified and in a state of mini-shock.
Just when she left DC after Trump’s inauguration.
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