FLYING THE DEADLY SKIES WITH DEI

DEI: FLY THE DANGEROUS SKIES
There’s a shortage of over 3,800 Air Traffic Controllers.
The FAA’s DEI policies were directly responsible for one of the most deadly air traffic incidents in America, and the most dangerous involving military aircraft.

According to a spokesman for the Air Traffic Controller’s Association, the current shortage of controllers is due to DEI practices which are cutting candidates because they are ‘too white’, ‘too elite’, or of the wrong sex. Today’s shortage of air traffic controllers has reached critical levels putting flyers, flight crews, and pilots in danger.

This glaring shortage is because of the FAA’s DEI practices which have left a gaping hole in recruitment. In 2024 alone over 1,000 would-be air traffic controllers were disqualified from consideration almost as immediately as they applied for the job. That’s because of diversity and inclusion hiring targets suddenly implemented by the Biden administration. This is according to the lead lawyer of a class-action suit filed against the FAA.

These thousand had completed all their training at FAA-approved training centers. Now fully qualified, they were to be placed in a direct hiring pool for air traffic controllers. This used to be the standard, but not anymore.

Under the FAA’s new DEI policies, only months after graduating from training schools, applicants were informed that they would need to pass a new “biographical assessment” which awards extra hiring points to people with “no aviation experience.”

The FAA decided these 1,000 plus graduate applicants were too white and the air traffic schools they graduated from were too elite. As a result they knocked these people off the preferred hiring list. Despite the fact that they had trained and worked very hard to get into the employee pool, becoming Air Traffic Controllers, they were disqualified all because of their race.

These guys and gals had the training and the passion and they were ready to be hired. The air traffic control issue was sharply brought into focus on Jan. 31 when an American Airlines passenger plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter smashed into each other over Washington, DC, killing 67 people in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in almost 25 years.

The air traffic control tower was operating with 19 full-time staff, two-thirds of the 30 required by the FAA. Nationwide there are 10,800 air traffic controllers (ATCs), but a minimum of 14,600 are needed to meet the current demand. This according to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.

The FAA engaged in what can only be called ‘staffing suicide.’ It takes two to five years to train as an air traffic controller. That’s a long time. Losing these people through DEI processes made a gaping hole in what was left in the ATC talent pool.

Simultaneously, a four-year near-freeze on air traffic controller hiring was also underway as the DEI policies were introduced, according to a former air traffic controller and trainer. The FAA, because of DEI policies, stopped hiring for three to four years and that directly correlates to the lack of staffing, and controllers being overworked, fatigued, and burned out.

An insider says, “If the DC crash is determined to be linked to ATC fatigue or lack of awareness — it’s directly related to DEI — President Trump was right about that.”
He said he believes the tragedy was due to “human error” on the part of air traffic control and that the human error was due to fatigue, overwork, and burnout.

On the night of the DC disaster, understaffing resulted in one controller pulling double duty — overseeing helicopters while also guiding arriving and departing planes’ runways. This according to an initial report by the FAA.

“The occupation requires attentiveness and awareness,” says an Air Traffic Control trainer. “This was not the helicopter’s fault — it was air traffic control whose primary job is to apply separation.”

An air crash investigator with the NATSB [National Air Transportation Safety Board] inspector said, “The controllers put planes on converging courses without adequate separation. The [aircraft] were headed at each other, where, had air traffic control seen this, systems would have been predicting they were about to collide.”

What we make of this is that DEI has killed many and will likely kill many more if it is not abandoned.