Posted on 01/31/2025 8:14:58 AM PST by thegagline
The Federal Aviation Administration was hit with a class-action lawsuit last year alleging it had denied 1,000 would-be air traffic controllers jobs because of diversity hiring targets — as it was revealed that staffing levels were “not normal” at the time of this week’s deadly midair collision.
Complaints about the FAA’s hiring policies resurfaced after the American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, killing 67 people in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter-century.
Details of the litigation re-emerged, too, as Andrew Brigida, the lead plaintiff in the suit, suggested the federal aviation agency’s obsession with diversity hiring and inclusion had only ensured that an accident was likely to happen.
The crux of the lawsuit is that the FAA, under the Obama administration, dropped a skill-based system for hiring controllers and replaced it with a “biographical assessment” in an alleged bid to boost the number of minority job applicants.
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Asked if he thought years of diversity hiring ensured that an aviation accident was bound to happen, Brigida told the Telegraph, “Yes, that’s kind of accurate.”
Brigida, who is white, alleges he was discriminated against solely based on his race when his application was rejected, court papers state.
The would-be air traffic controller, who graduated from Arizona State University’s collegiate training initiative in 2013, was turned down for a job even though he had scored 100% on his training exam, the lawsuit alleges.
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Do, it was caused by DEI.
Yesterday we heard that they wanted to ‘diversify’ by hiring people with various physical and even mental disabilities.
It’s almost hard to believe that our government could be so senseless.
Coulda hired whitey.
Killed 67 instead.
DEI = DIE!
Patrick Casey
@restoreorderusa
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1884928143036764655.html?utm_campaign=topunroll
In 2023, there were 503 air traffic control lapses categorized as “significant” – up 65% (!) from last year.
Something has clearly gone wrong. But what?
Allow me to explain....
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Previously, the FAA’s CTI program worked with 36 colleges to educate future air traffic controllers. These colleges offered 2 & 4 year degrees requiring courses in air traffic control and aviation administration. It also employed a rigorous skills test.
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Pete Buttegeig
Get rid of the “race” question on any and all job applications!
They should have sent recruiters to Kamala's Democrat Convention.
Don’t dis the air traffic controller...
https://rumble.com/v6f3n5y-the-urgent-call-to-return-to-base-this-crash-makes-no-sense.html
look at this re: the helo
Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves.
You must not have any democRATs in your family. They're all a combination of stupid and insane. Those are the people who controlled the USA for 8 years during O'Butthead and 4 years of pedo joe. Add to that the 8 years of Klinton, and it's almost a miracle the USA is still here. At all.
Harris would have been the final nail.
Rumor is that the “she” in the Blackhawk who was getting a proficiency check was also really a tranny
What do you think “Build Back Better” meant?
They have to destroy society first before they can build it back in their own image.
And believe me, when that’s done, all this tranny and DEI stuff will be long gone.
It’s just the tools they use to destroy the current order.
Long ago, the FAA quit hiring people from the schools specifically dedicated to teaching air traffic controllers and they quit hiring ex-military and ex-pilot people.
THE FAA RECRUITING INFO==
QUOTE: “THE Federal AVIATION ADMINISTRATION is attempting to hire people with “Severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other conditions under a “Diversity. Equity, and Inclusion” initiative.”
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal Government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring” the FAA website reads.
“they include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
FAA has about 45,000 employees.
THIS recruiting ad was run under BIDEN/PETE BUTTIGIEG administration.
I found it on the internet & PRINTED IT OUT so I could pass it on-—VERBATIM
Apparently, it will take the deaths of 67 people to bring this all to LIGHT.
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