Posted on 01/31/2025 6:53:10 PM PST by airdalechief
Tucker Carlson had already unearthed proof back in 2018 that the Obama administration had placed a new emphasis on diversity over traditional hiring practices at the Federal Aviation Administration.
President Donald Trump suggested during a news briefing Thursday that the crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 with an Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C., may have had something to do with the lowering of standards for air traffic controllers that occurred first during the Obama administration and later during President Joe Biden's time in office.
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And our fine Sec. of Transportation at the time, Elaine Chao, didn’t address it immediately?
Shocking.
> controller should have ordered that copter to drop and turn, emergency, do it now.
That would have done the trick.
Culture of respect for flyers failed here.
Later.
Could anyone find the actual document “Controller Hiring by the numbers” FAA 2013?
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