João Drummond

Added [ 🤲 DEI culture ] + [ 🚫 No DEI culture ] filters to airlinelist.com Depending on your belief that Diversity, Equity & Inclusion programs either improve or worsen airline safety This was inspired by me talking to @Molson_Hart: He told me how in the airline industry (from pilots, to maintenance to air traffic control) has started to hire not based on merit (who is the best) but based on DEI (how diverse are you) And he predicts more future safety issues with airlines and at airports because of this. Last year, two planes nearly collided in Austin due to catastrophic mistakes by ATC which nearly killed 131 people: "Two planes were moments from colliding in Texas, a harrowing example of the country’s fraying air safety system, a New York Times investigation found. On a cold, foggy Saturday morning in February, an air traffic controller cleared a FedEx cargo plane to land on Runway 18L at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas. A Southwest Airlines jet was on the same runway, but the controller said it would take off before FedEx’s hulking Boeing 767 got too close. As the FedEx plane descended through thick clouds, though, the pilots saw something terrifying: the silhouette of the Southwest 737. The two planes were seconds from colliding. While the incident’s basic contours have been made public, a New York Times reconstruction of the near collision shows that an air traffic controller made virtually catastrophic mistakes."