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In order to meet its targets for Diversity Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility, (DEIA), the Federal Aviation Administration is recruiting for people with severe mental disabilities, psychiatric problems and physical disabilities. The recruiting campaign comes at an awkward time, as companies like Spirit AeroSystems, which built the malfunctioning fuselage for Boeing 737 MAX 9s, have crowed to their shareholders about hitting their DEI targets for hiring, and firing white men in order to met their diversity quotas. The FAA’s targeted disabilities for hiring are, in the agency’s own words: Hearing (total deafness in both ears) Vision (Blind) Missing Extremities Partial Paralysis...

The Federal Aviation Administration now says that the way to make the skies safer is to make their workforce more diverse, including hiring people with “severe” intellectual disabilities and psychiatric disabilities. No, this is not satire; see below, via Fox News: FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilitiesThe FAA says people with ‘severe’ disabilities are the most under-represented segment of the federal workforce. The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer "severe intellectual" disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out...

A Boeing 737 plane in Japan was forced to return to its point of departure on Saturday after a crack appeared in the window of the plane’s cockpit. The All Nippon Airways (ANA) domestic flight had left the city of Sapporo en route to Toyama, before turning around for an emergency landing. No one onboard was injured, a spokesperson for the airline said. John Strickland, an expert aviation consultant said that although the crack was in the outermost of the four-layered window, cracks like it “can be pretty dangerous if not fixed,” according to the BBC. “The crack was not...

Competency is no longer the primary requirement considered for employment in the airline and commercial aircraft manufacturing industries. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As a commercial pilot, I had hoped the new year would usher in a wave of renewed sanity, safety, and a brighter future for my industry. Sadly, just a week or so into 2024, the industry is off to a horrific start. One year ago, LifeSiteNews published a commentary I penned expressing great concerns that I and other pilots share about the direction in which the Biden administration has taken our industry. In my article, I outlined the effects of forced...

With an endless stream of illegals, Americans are coming to realize why they can't have nice things. Libs of TikTok found this going on at Chicago's famed O'Hare Airport, one of the country's largest and busiest: BREAKING: I received this from a source in O’Hare Airport in Chicago. Parts of the airport were sectioned off to house illegals. There were too many illegals and now they overflowed into the terminal area. My source says they were mainly Hispanic men and he was asked not to record. Why are they trying to hide this?! Obviously, they ran out of space but...

In recent months, videos and images of migrants boarding U.S. commercial airline flights have flooded social media. This month, North State Journal reported on an American Airlines flight out of Arizona carrying non-U.S. citizens to Charlotte’s Douglas International Airport. Within hours of the article being posted online, a General Assembly staffer who wished to remain anonymous relayed a similar encounter at an Arizona airport while returning from a conference on Dec. 1, 2023. Per the staffer, the individuals all appeared to have brand-new backpacks and were carrying plastic bags with what looked like “snacks.” The staffer said most of them...

VIDEO AT LINK............... This diversity stuff will get people killed......................

One of the most staggering things to come out of the mid-flight incident in which the door of an Alaskan Airlines flight ripped off moments after take-off is that one passenger’s iPhone was allegedly found under a bush in working condition after plummeting 16,000 feet. This is wild because other iPhones have been unable to survive getting knocked off the table. According to CBS News, a man named Sean Bates stumbled across a phone sitting under a bush in Washington. He said that the phone was in airplane mode and was displaying a baggage receipt for Alaska Airlines Flight 1282....

During an emergency press briefing, Jennifer Homendy, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), disclosed that the cockpit voice recorder on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX, which experienced a door plug loss mid-flight, had been completely overwritten. Homendy said, “The cockpit voice recorder was completely overwritten. There is nothing on the cockpit voice recorder.” She continued, “There was a lot going on, on the flight deck and on the plane. It’s a very chaotic event. The circuit breaker for the CVR (cockpit voice recorder) was not pulled. The maintenance team went out to get it, but it...

This sort of thing is going to get worse and with increasing frequency. >More than 170 Boeing airplanes have been grounded after a refrigerator-sized hole opened up in the side of a passenger plane mid-flight. >The Federal Aviation Administration said it would order the temporary grounding of certain Boeing 737 Max 9 airplanes after an Alaska Airlines flight was forced to perform an emergency landing on Friday following the loss of part of the fuselage.

Liberals who support DEI want this guy to be in charge of airplanes: "Biden's Nominee To Lead FAA Can't Answer A Single Question About Aviation & Air Travel Ted Budd Asks"

Search... Delta Airlines Employee Surprises Angry Trans Customer by Pushing Back on 'It's MA'AM' Routine Couc The days leading up to Christmas are some of the most tiring for customer service workers in most industries, with customers desperate to get whatever business they need to get done before the holiday hits tending to be not as reasonable as they might otherwise me. This is doubly true for workers in the airline industry, where hordes of travelers descend on them at their airport kiosks trying to get home for the holidays; although Christmas may bring out the best in people in...

There have been at least 19 separate instances in which airplanes nearly smashed into one another in the first 10 months of the year, according to a shocking report. The staggering number of near-misses between January and October marks a dramatic increase in narrowly averted airline crashes — the most since 2016, according to Federal Aviation Administration data viewed by the Wall Street Journal. The total number for the year is not yet known, but is expected to continue to climb.

The number of unruly passenger incidents has doubled this year compared to 2019 onboard KLM flights and at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, the Dutch flag carrier said Thursday. That's despite the Air France-KLM group being 6% below its pre-pandemic capacity, as it reported during this year's third-quarter results. It suggests that airline passengers are misbehaving more frequently across the board, with scores of high-profile incidents this year — from Tiffany Gomas, the American Airlines passenger who went viral after accusing another customer of not being real, to several passengers trying to open emergency exit doors.

Two private planes collided on the runway of a Houston airport early last week. Luckily, no one was seriously injured, and the ultimate nightmare scenario of a midair collision did not transpire. Investigators are still looking into the incident, though early reports suggest the air traffic controllers were responsible. ... “We just had a midair,” the pilot of the Hawker is heard saying in an audio recording posted on LiveATC.net, which shares live and archived recordings of air traffic control radio transmissions. Someone in the control tower responds by saying, “Say what?” “You guys cleared somebody to take off or...

A Ryanair passenger has been caught on camera delivering a profanity-laced tirade in the direction of fellow travelers and cabin crew, before storming off the aircraft in the middle of the boarding process. Video of the disturbing incident was shared to X on Thursday, where it quickly took off, clocking 450,000 views, with many left stunned by the brunette’s brutish behavior. “– you and – off,” the troubled traveler screams at a passenger, before appearing to redirect her anger toward several flight attendants. A separate video posted on the same thread shows the bothered brunette blasting the cabin crew as...

ALL 224 passengers on a plane that was due to take off from Zaragoza Airport on Saturday, September 30, had to be evacuated following an incident. As reported in a statement released by the Guardia Civil this Sunday, October 1, the Wizz Air flight was scheduled to fly to the Romanian capital of Bucharest. The incident occurred at around 9:15 am, while the plane was sitting on the runway in the Aragonese capital. It involved one of the passengers, a Romanian national who is believed to be resident in Zaragoza. While waiting for the flight to depart, the allegedly intoxicated...

Surveillance video caught TSA agents at Miami International Airport stealing from passengers as they went through security. The shocking footage shows Labarrius Williams, 33, and Josue Gonzalez, 20, working together to steal money from passengers’ bags at security checkpoint E on June 29. Video provided by the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's office shows Williams shifting around items in a bin and then walking away while Gonzalez puts his hand on the item. Gonzalez is then seen gripping something in his hand while removing it from the bin, then immediately dropping something in his pocket before returning to the conveyor belt....

Coming out of stealth development is an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft by Applied eVTOL Concepts. The new eVTOL has thruster technology developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration via a multi-million dollar grant from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Applied eVTOL Concepts revealed the "Epiphany Transporter" last week, described as a "new mode of personal mobility." "The Epiphany Transporter can accommodate two people, their luggage, plus golf clubs! Intended to be simple and safe to operate, and about the size of a Tesla Model 'S' automobile, it fits into a standard one-car garage with its thrusters...

The woman behind the shocking 'that motherf***er back there is not real' airplane meltdown has been unmasked as a 38-year-old Dallas marketing executive. Tiffany Gomas became erratic over an argument with the relatives she was traveling with The Dallas resident had accused her relatives of stealing her Airpods, per a police report. The July 2 viral incident happened on Flight 1009 from Fort Worth to Orlando, Florida. After she claimed her relatives had stolen her AirPods, Gomas began to say the airplane was not safe and would not make it to its destination. Official documents say she was not willing...