Your pilot is the last person you’d want picked based on anything other than merit. But after two weeks of back-to-back flight disasters, a shortage of air traffic controllers suggests the Federal Aviation Administration under recent Democrat rule couldn’t care less about keeping planes in the air.
A lawyer suing the FAA on behalf of 1,000 air traffic controller applicants told the New York Post they were “wiped from consideration overnight” because they weren’t ranked high enough on the DEI totem pole of intersectionality.
Michael Pearson says his clients completed all their training at FAA-approved institutions before they were “placed in a direct hiring pool for air traffic controllers,” which they believed set them for success.
But within a few months of graduating, Pearson claims the administration slapped his clients with a new “biographical assessment” that placed applicants with “no aviation experience” at the top of the pool.
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“The FAA basically decided the students were too white and the schools too elite, so in 2013 knocked them off the preferred hiring list they had trained and worked hard to get onto — all because of their race,” he told the Post.
Despite having the “training and the passion” and their ready-to-work attitude, the attorney claims 95% of the previously qualified candidates he represents were therefore “screened out.”
He blames this injustice for the FAA’s “gaping hole” in recruitment, with a current shortage of 3,800 air traffic controllers.
It’s a shortage that Pearson calls “staffing suicide” and may have even contributed to January’s deadliest aviation disaster in the U.S. in nearly 25 years.
Only 19 full-time staff - two-thirds of the 30 recommended by the FAA - were present in the air traffic control tower at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed into an American Airlines commuter jet earlier this month, killing 67 people.
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