by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:
The terrible crash of an airliner and Army helicopter over Washington, D.C.’s, Reagan National Airport has cast a spotlight on the dangerous diversity, equity, and inclusion policies at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the last 12 years.
President Donald Trump denounced the DEI policies established during the Biden administration at a news conference today. But the trouble began during the Obama administration, when the FAA dropped a skills-based test for air traffic controllers and replaced it with a “biographical test” to increase the number of women and minorities.
The FAA rejected some 1,000 applicants, some of them minorities, because of the change, Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) claims in its ongoing discrimination lawsuit against the agency.
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Though FAA dropped the biographical assessment during the first Trump administration, the Biden administration sought severely handicapped applicants, including those who are “completely paralyzed.”
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Biden’s FAA
Today’s crash killed 60 passengers on the jet, along with four crew members. The Army’s Black Hawk helicopter carried three.
Citing an FAA report, The Associated Press reported that one air traffic controller was doing the work of two.
“The position configuration was not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” the report said, AP reported.
Whatever its ultimate cause, Trump’s presser on the crash included a denunciation of the Biden administration’s DEI, which included hiring the severely disabled.
Trump cited a Fox News article from last January about the FAA’s DEI push.
As The New American reported at time, that push came as a door blew off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 when it was 16,000 feet over Oregon with 171 passengers and six crewmen. The airline did not ground the plane despite cabin pressurization warning lights going on in the two days prior to the flight.
Homosexual Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg wanted three percent of all new hires to have “targeted disabilities.”
They included the following:
• Hearing (total deafness in both ears)
• Vision (blind)
• Missing extremities
• Partial paralysis
• Complete paralysis, epilepsy
• Severe intellectual disability
• Psychiatric disability
• Dwarfism
Applicants with those conditions enjoyed access to “on the spot” hiring.
Obama’s FAA
Crazy as that policy was, another came from Biden’s former boss, President Barack Hussein Obama. As The Washington Times reported last year, in 2013, his FAA published “Controller Hiring by the Numbers.” It asked, “How much of a change in job performance is acceptable to achieve what diversity goals?”
FAA answered by abandoning the standard skill test to become an air traffic controller and replacing it with a “biographical assessment,” which included 114 multiple-choice questions to “explore your personality traits and your approach to work.”
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