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Equity Over Safety: Did an Affirmative-action Pilot Crash a Plane?
New American ^ | 2/25/2023 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 02/26/2023 6:52:33 AM PST by Bon of Babble

The pilot had a history of acting “impulsively” during training and “an inability to remain calm during stressful situations,” an investigator said. These deficits would prove deadly.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; antigua; aska; diversity; equity; planecrashes; thisisstupid; unitedairlines
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To: Bon of Babble
Konrad...


41 posted on 02/26/2023 10:08:53 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: Bon of Babble

“In fairness, we don’t know for certain that 44-year-old Aska, who was born in Antigua, kept his job due to affirmative action and “equity.””

Now, why would anyone suspect such a thing?


42 posted on 02/26/2023 10:11:56 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: 9YearLurker

“The NTSB said on March 5 that the Boeing 767-300 cargo jet entered some turbulence shortly before the plane’s crash landing. Then, the engines increased to maximum thrust, after which the airplane pitch turned slightly up.”

Sounds like they were on autopilot, encountered a microburst and the AP was doing its job to keep the plane in the air and maintain the proper glide slope. The First Officer over reacted and pushed the nose hard over.


43 posted on 02/26/2023 10:54:50 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.)
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To: Bon of Babble
The best example of “diversity” or an affirmative action pilot was Auburn Calloway. Look it up. He was the example where the 9-11 terrorists received their inspiration. If it hadn't been for the bravery and professionalism of the pilot and co pilot everyone would know about this incident because of the death toll.
44 posted on 02/26/2023 10:59:59 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: MeganC
"I have my multi-engine license and after I get 78 more hours logged I can apply for my commercial license."
Women can be fine pilots. The person who gave me the check flight for my private license was a woman, sadly no longer with us. Her obit said she was "one of the World's greatest Aerobatic pilots." She was the first American ever to win a Gold Medal in World Aerobatic Competition.
45 posted on 02/26/2023 11:07:56 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Bon of Babble

I think this is a good article on the subject. I expect before all the wokeness causes enough accidents or kills enough people we will see much more incompetence promoted and endured.

The bias to “give another chance” for people who get rattled has bothered me a lot in emergency response training in particular and training or job performance in general. People don’t just not test well, if they do, they also do not perform well under stress. It is a certainty. They are not owed benefit of the doubt and doing so is an injustice to the people whose well being / lives depend on them doing well.

Conrad should have never been in the cockpit.

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/legacy-of-a-lie-the-crash-of-atlas-air-flight-3591-519a3a7bd6ec

What I fear next in the woke world is promotion of incompetents at the expense of the competent because of quotas and union seniority. In a small universe of force-favored candidates attempting to feed the larger general universe you begin to scrape the bottom of the barrel sooner. No matter the race, color or creed it is just a fact.


46 posted on 02/26/2023 11:08:38 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: G Larry

Now you understand why the elitist frauds fly on private jets.


Private jet charter companies also hire minorities and women.


47 posted on 02/26/2023 11:13:17 AM PST by AFret. (.)
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To: Ann Archy

The author of the article. He was being sarcastic.


48 posted on 02/26/2023 11:19:25 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: ansel12

I wonder why Atlas didn’t research this guy’s past record and just went on his “word” alone?

If they didn’t, then they are partly at fault b/c this guy had a terrible history with other airlines.


49 posted on 02/26/2023 11:21:41 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Ahithophel

Soon life expectancy of 41 yrs. or more in US will be labeled white privilege.


I heard a variation of this nearly a half century ago. I was at a meeting dealing with disabilities and a speaker asserted that Indians (feather) should be allowed to draw Social Security checks at age 55, since as a group their life expectancy was shorter.


50 posted on 02/26/2023 11:27:03 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Bon of Babble

i refuse to believe in ‘diversity’

merit is all that matters


51 posted on 02/26/2023 11:34:48 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: skeeter
I plan on getting my last air travel in within the next couple of years
I'm curoius. What does the next coiuple of years have to do with your situation? Will you be retiring from a job requiring you to travel long distances?

If that's the case, I'd be sweating out the countdown to ending your need for frequent air travel.

Or perhaps you and the Mrs. skeeter just want to do some elective traveling of the world. That's difficult and very time consuming via ground and ocean transport.

52 posted on 02/26/2023 11:36:05 AM PST by citizen (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people - John Adams 1798)
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To: Bon of Babble

By now I think it is clear that among Americans affirmative action has become part of our culture, it is way beyond only law and corporate code, people are just keeping their heads down and trying to stay employed, we don’t pry and we don’t challenge.


53 posted on 02/26/2023 11:59:25 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Bon of Babble

I also read on FR the feds are going to move to put more blax into medicine.


54 posted on 02/26/2023 12:22:19 PM PST by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.." )
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To: null and void

You’re right. Nice addition.


55 posted on 02/26/2023 12:26:11 PM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: citizen

It’d be the latter. My business traveling days are over (thank God) but there’re still some places I’d like to visit.

I’ll try to use airlines that have not yet been completely corrupted by this equity BS but there’s nothing that can be done about ground service and flight control personnel.


56 posted on 02/26/2023 12:30:37 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Hiddigeigei; MeganC; Dashing Dasher; SkyDancer
Women can be fine pilots.

Just ask SkyDancer or Dashing Dasher.

57 posted on 02/26/2023 1:09:57 PM PST by null and void (TIA - NW)
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To: null and void

We’re constantly stress tested during re-certification.


58 posted on 02/26/2023 1:25:45 PM PST by SkyDancer (Hold on tight to your dream)
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To: Bon of Babble
H/T Travis McGee:


59 posted on 02/27/2023 5:50:17 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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To: AFret.

Private jet owners....not so much.


60 posted on 02/27/2023 6:40:22 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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