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This DEI fail gets people killed

Via Not the Bee in a New York Post op ed by Daniel Huff:

I analyzed every US commercial flight crash attributed to pilot error since 2000: Women and minorities represent less than 10% of pilots yet were factors in four out of six crashes (66%).

The sample size is small. But precisely because crashes are so rare, the few times they occur it’s important to scrutinize who is at the controls; under DEI’s guiding principle of relying on statistical disparities, it’s certainly enough to raise questions.

It’s not that women and minorities are inherently unable to fly planes, but in practice, pressure for affirmative action too often leads airlines to lower their standards to meet quotas.

He goes through and lists a bunch of errors that can be attributed to the pilots via the dumbing down of standards just to get a particular melanin content or genitalia into a pilot’s seat.

Standards are standards. Especially for pilots, first responders, and combat troops. If someone cannot meet those standards, they shouldn’t get the job, no matter how much they reallllllllly want it.

Here’s part of the transcript from the helicopter crash that killed 67 on a commercial liner and the entire crew of the helicopter. The verbiage is telling. The person in charge of the check ride was doing his best to get this woman certified because DEI. His life and those of the others can directly be laid at the feet of this ideology.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/new-audio-video-from-dca-plane-crash-released-during-ntsb-hearing

Audio transcript from the black box recorder inside the Blackhawk in the final 20 seconds before the crash appears to show the Army pilots were actively trying to avoid crashing into the passenger plane.

“PAT 2-5, You have the CRJ in sight?”
“PAT 2-5 Has aircraft in sight, request visual separation.”

Then the instructor in the helicopter can be heard telling the pilot: 

“Alright, kinda come left for me ma’am, I think that’s why he’s asking — we’re kinda out towards the middle.”

The recording ends there — as the aircrafts collide.

And Daniel Huff’s analysis only looked at pilots. Not Air Traffic Control. The entire system is riddled with DEI and no matter how the press danced or tried to run cover, the truth is that it kills people. Literally.



10 responses to “This DEI fail gets people killed”

  1. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

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  2. Always have to think about confounding variables, but with a sample size this small, even more so………………………

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  3. Yeah, this is not a surprise to anyone in the aviation industry. Every pilot I know has a “grossly incompetent diversity hire gets 27 chances where a white male got let go” story.

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  4. I get it , there are many jobs where a diversity hire does not matter a bit. If the person making your coffee messes up the order , no biggie right ? But as the tasks get more complicated the consequences of failure become more extreme and unpleasant. For certain jobs only the best will do. When I had heart surgery my doctor was top notch ,not last place in his class ,and I would not want it any other way.

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  5. Hence DEI known as Didn’t Earn It. It’s been the same problem since it’s inception in the 60s known then as Affirmative Action.

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  6. I read that story yesterday in the Post. Completely in line with what has been predicted as the outcome from this boolchit that has been crammed down our throats and stuffed up the other end for decades. Thank You President Johnson.

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  7. yeah, they pushed affirmative action down everyone throat.
    couldn’t get a really good job because of it a few times
    and in the army it was even worse if you can believe it.
    one guy got promoted over me and then asked me ‘where are we on this map” during a field problem. I just looked at him and said you “should ” know. after that mess, I just played stupid until I got out. it got really hard to be lead around by morons who had no idea how to read a map or compass.
    we seem to get lost a few times as I recall.
    standards are standards for a reason. people tend to forget that part.

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  8. See also the Toronto crash just a little under a year ago…..hammered it into the runway.

    Was given the flight because she had failed a whole bunch of tries in the simulator and that was her last chance to stay current. .

    She totally blew her approach and hit so hard she broke the wing and that caused the plane to flip. Lucky that DEI didn’t kill anyone that day.

    Political correctness and the fact that wo many women demand to be given the opportunities and concessions when they can’t do the job has killed a LOT of people.

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  9. You should also research who’s working on your airliners these days. There’s plenty of A&P fraud these days.

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  10. Sadly true.

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