Airline safety is off to a bad start in 2024 thanks to Biden admin policies
In Texas, a hearing has finally, albeit quietly, been initiated concerning a July 29, 2023 incident at Houston’s Intercontinental Airport (IAH) where a new First Officer mishandled the landing of a United 767-300ER, slamming it to the ground and bouncing the nose gear multiple times so hard that the airframe of the plane was severely damaged.
The United First Officer was a former flight attendant who had been fired, then rehired and enrolled in the airline’s DEI Pilot Training program despite being on a company “Do Not Rehire” list.
While in training, the pilot candidate failed multiple simulator training sessions and scored poorly on training exams.
After barely meeting the required tasks, he or she was put in a cockpit as a First Officer.
United has gone out of its way to keep this story quiet. No word if the damaged 767 was reparable or if it has been placed back in service.
On the North River 
She will probably go out on disability retirement because she got injured by her own ignorance.
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I don’t know about you but my interest in flying commercial today is near zero.
The problem is DEI infests everything now. And the damage is likely to last for decades.
When a culture that advances excellence and achievement is replaced with an obsession with skin color and the number of freak flags a candidate can fly, then rebuilding will take years, if possible at all. Because those qualified to rebuild will be gone. Institutional memory is carried in living minds.
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My wife is sadly having to fly to CA to help out her sister who has Alzheimer’s. It is truly scary that this crap is going on now.
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So sorry. Been through that. I hope things go as well as they can go.
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They have to find 5,000 pilots that do not exist.
And then there is this reality: https://abc13.com/plane-crash-ntsb-report-cargo-boeing-757/6317054/
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And this kind of jumps out at you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Express_Flight_705
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As I understand it, there were supposed to be only two authorized crew on that flight, and the co-pilot originally was a female. She got swapped out with a male and another male was on the flight deck.
So instead of only two victims to overcome, one a woman, the attacker had three males to deal with. He was unsuccessful.
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