Posted on 02/16/2023 4:34:42 AM PST by MtnClimber
Our government is playing with our lives as it prefers diversity, equity, and inclusion over ensuring the best qualified employees are hired.
A recent epidemic of airline near misses deserves both attention and reflection.
In mid-December, a San Francisco-bound United Airlines Boeing 777-200 airliner, just a little over a minute after taking off from Maui, Hawaii, suddenly dived. It lost more than half its altitude and came within 800 feet of crashing into the Pacific Ocean before pulling up.
About a month later, an American Airlines jet crossed the runway at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport just as a Delta Air Lines plane was accelerating for takeoff. The two aircraft nearly collided.
Then in February, a FedEx cargo jet at the Austin, Texas airport just missed crashing into a Southwest Airlines airliner by a mere 100 feet.
The same month an American Airlines Airbus A321 was being towed out of the gate at Los Angeles International airport, and smashed into a bus carrying passengers between terminals, injuring five.
These near and actual accidents come amid a general landscape of aviation chaos.
After Christmas, Southwest Airlines simply canceled 71 percent of its flights. It blamed staff shortages due to storms. The airline seemed incapable of ensuring enough of their pilots, attendants, crews, and airport staff could get to work.
The Federal Aviation Administration in January canceled all flight departures from the United States for two hours due a computer safety system collapse. Thousands of additional flights were canceled, many for over 24 hours.
Something has gone terribly wrong.
Either the Department of Transportation and its Secretary Pete Buttigieg, or the head of the FAA, or the quality of either ground crews, pilots, or air traffic controllers—or all combined—are putting American travelers at mortal risk.
If not corrected...
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Voting to replace meritocracy with a kakistocracy gives aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
Our enemies are behind the push to demolish meritocracy.
For this level of effery to occur requires a system approach top to bottom.
“There’s a thin veneer of hyper-competent professionals who keep the lights on and the water drinkable. Replace them with the incompetent and the water turns brown and the lights go out.”
Approaching third world status at the speed of sound…
The Larger the bureaucracy, the less it is concerned with the needs of individuals.
My instructor friend who is in with the faa always asks if they have a number of acceptable deaths as a result of some of these policies, crickets
when suffering from inequality, the coveted need is to end the importance of merit in your betters
The reason for inequality is inequality
aw jeez...i can actually hear that conversation....
Similar problems are plaguing the U.S. military.
On July 21, 2021 the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley assured the country that “The Afghan security forces have the capacity and capabilities needed to fight and defend their country.”
Those forces utterly collapsed in a matter of hours less than a month later.
On the eve of the war in Ukraine, the Pentagon wrongly warned Congress that Kyiv could fall within 72 hours of a general Russian invasion.
Keep it up, and there are going to be a lot more Afghanistan-style surrenders, Chinese surveillance craft in our skies, and airline nightmares.
And and to quote the wise MMusson from post 10:
The Larger the bureaucracy, the less it is concerned with the needs of individuals.
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My Brigade Commander wrote a book which encompassed much of my 5 month deployment to Somalia in 1993.
He discusses some “accidental discharges” that happened during the deployment from US and coalition forces and how there is no such thing as an accidental discharge.
He said that with very few exceptions, every incident he saw in his career was either the result of
poor training,
poor discipline,
poor leadership,
poor SOP’s
and usually a combination of the four.
I’m sure most ocean ship captains know by now to avoid US NAVY vessels due to their keen ability to crash into random vessels.
so yeah, you start putting lives in the hands of incompetence, then lives will be taken.
Tough times make strong men, strong men make easy times, easy times make weak men, weak men make tough times......
we are in the weak men make tough times phase of the human life cycle right now. We are entering a leaderless generation......and the price will be paid soon enough........
Did not a Navy ship hit another because of a tiff between two female officers on deck at the same time a few years back? It was because they would not talk to each other I gather, I can’t remember the details anyone else remember?
very possibly.
I do recall something about a female commander on a ship, but who knows. I dont remember any details
I’m sure if what you’re saying actually happened, then I’m sure the truth has been buried—we can’t let life get in the way of diversity can we?
The former first world nation of South Africa should be warning to us all.
The state of transportation is now a metaphor for how well the homosexual lifestyle “works out”. In reality, its a plane crash. Or trainwreck. Or pile-up.
Got that right.
In an article about “load shedding” (rotating blackouts) in South Africa, I was surprised to read the comments of a black union leader who said essentially, “say what you will about the apartheid days, at least they kept the lights on.”
Not that apartheid was a wonderful thing, but at least the country’s management didn’t put relatives, friends and political supporters into positions they were totally unqualified to fill.
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