The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
The initiative is part of the FAA’s “Diversity and Inclusion” hiring plan, which says “diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.” The FAA’s website shows the agency’s guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23, 2022.
The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation, is a government agency charged with regulating civil aviation and employs roughly 45,000 people…
Patients are running the asylum
I very much doubt this accident has anything to do with an air traffic controller. I’m not a pilot, but from what I understand it was night and they were following visual flight rules. It’s very hard to see out of a Blackhawk helicopter.
It is true that the helicopter was at the same altitude as the plane, but we don’t know if that was the fault of the pilot or the controller.
There are still less accidents today in air travel than 40 years ago. Do I want nutjobs directing traffic? No. But there is no evidence yet DEI is why this happened.
FAA is a lot more than just ATC.