FAA Workforce Was "Too White", Obama Admin "Sacrificed Safety At The Altar Of Political Correctness" (excerpts)
As if it needed saying, "The Airport Control Tower Is No Place For Racial Redress" but as The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board member Jason Riley exclaimed this week, that is exactly what the Obama administration appears to have done the Obama FAA
grounded qualified candidates in the name of social justice.
The FAA seems to believe that having diverse air traffic controllers is more important than having good ones and seems unwilling to defend its hiring practices.
As Fox News reports, the FAA has for decades been one of the most trusted institutions in government and for good reason. Commercial air travel has been the safest in the world in part because of the FAA's high standards. But under the Obama
administration that began to change radically without anybody paying attention.
Michael Pearson, an attorney suing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" host Tucker Carlson (8:13 video) that during the Obamaadministration, the FAA replaced the previous hiring standards with rules designed to increase diversity among air traffic controllers.“A group within the FAA, including the human resources function within the FAA -- the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees -- determined that theworkforce was too white,” Pearson told Carlson.“They had a concerted effort through the Department of Transportation in the Obama administration to change that.”“This is social engineering at its finest,” he added.
The Obama administration pressured the FAA to meet abstract diversity goals. Nobody bothered to explain why diversity is a relevant criterion for air traffic controllers. No one will explain it now.
Fox News reports that, starting in 2014, the FAA added a biographical questionnaire to the application process. Applicants with a lower aptitude in science got preference over applicants who had scored excellent in science. Applicants who had been
unemployed for the previous three years got more points than licensed pilots got. In other words, the FAA actively searched for unqualified air traffic controllers.
"A group within the FAA ... determined that the workforce was too white. They had a concerted effort ... in
the Obama administration to change that."
~~Michael Pearson, attorney suing the Federal Aviation Administration
Most Still Say Political Correctness Kills Free Speech
Friday, July 26, 2019
President Trump and others are routinely accused of hate speech by political opponents, but for a sizable majority of Americans, political correctness remains the bigger problem.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 26% of American Adults believe Americans have true freedom of speech today. Sixty - eight percent (68%) disagree and say Americans have to be
careful not to say something politically incorrect to avoid getting in trouble. These findings have changed little in surveying for the past several years. (To see survey question wording, click here
Voters Aren't Politically Correct And Say Neither Is Trump
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Voters view so-called political correctness as a problem and see it as a wedge used to silence opposition. President Obama was politically correct, they say; President Trump is not.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 14% of Likely U.S. Voters think Trump is more politically correct than most recent presidents. Seventy-four percent (74%) say he is less
politically correct than his recent predecessors, while 10% rate his level of political correctness as about the same. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
By contrast, 62% say Obama was more politically correct than most other recent presidents. Only 19% feel he was less politically correct, and 17% think his level of political correctness was about the same.
79% See Political Correctness As Serious Problem in America
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Hank Williams Jr. won’t be singing the opening song for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” anymore as a result of a comment he made about President Obama. Some consider him the latest prominent victim of political correctness.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 79% of American Adults think political correctness is a serious problem in America today, up five points from a year ago. Just 16% feel it’s not a problem for the
country. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Sizable majorities across all demographic categories share the belief that political correctness is a serious problem these days.
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of all adults believe America has become too politically correct. Only 18% think the country isn’t politically correct enough and 15% feel the level of political correctness in the country is about right.
63% Say Political Correctness Kept Military From Preventing Ft. Hood Massacre
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Sixty - three percent (63%) of U.S. voters say political correctness prevented the military from responding to warning signs from Major Nidal Malik Hasan that could have prevented the Fort Hood shootings from taking place.
Texas pilot’s last words before cargo plane crash: ‘Lord, you have my soul’
by Yaron Steinbuch | December 20, 2019
The tragic last words of one of the pilots killed in the crash of a cargo plane in Houston contracted by Amazon earlier this year were, “Lord, you have my soul,” according to a chilling transcript of the cockpit voice recorder.
Capt. Ricky Blakely, First Officer Conrad Jules Aska and Mesa Airlines Capt. Sean Archuleta, who was riding in the jump seat, were killed Feb. 23 when the Boeing 767 operated by Atlas Air plunged into Trinity Bay.
Seconds after air traffic controllers rerouted the aircraft around some precipitation, the crew began losing control on approach to Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Aska, who had a record of repeatedly flunking flight tests, may have mistakenly thought the jet was stalling when its nose was pointed too high, so he jerked it down as the captain fought to pull up, according to the Nation
He added full takeoff power without telling Blakely, resulting in pandemonium in the cockpit, according to the report.
“Whoa, (where’s) my speed, my speed,” Aska said, according to the transcript released by the National Transportation Safety Bureau. “We’re stalling. Stall.”
Several thumping sounds could be heard in the cockpit as the plane plummeted 6,200 feet at an airspeed of 433.5 knots (499 mph) with the autopilot engaged before the flight data recorder stopped working.
The NTSB, which released 2,279 pages of raw investigative reports, stopped short of providing formal conclusions about the cause of the accident.
But the agency did address a possible inadvertent activation of a “go around” switch that turns off the autopilot, as well as the co-pilot’s training issues.
Aska did not list his entire employment history when he was hired at Atlas Air, omitting two jobs with Air Wisconsin and CommutAir that ended after he couldn’t complete the training.
The director of training told investigators that “with that information ‘we would not have offered him a position’ based on the (co - pilot’s) failure to disclose that information on his application,” KHOU reported.
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