Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s Tuesday evening piece on air travel safety is making the rounds!
Asserting that recent safety scares can be blamed on Biden-sanctioned “equity-based” hiring practices, Carlson unloaded on the Biden Administration and “woke” hiring policies at airlines.
In a segment on his program that stretched over four minutes, Carlson unloaded on Biden and a number of airlines including Southwest Airlines and United Airlines.
He warned that “at some point, many people are going to die” as a result of airlines’ “dramatically lowering hiring standards for pilots and for air traffic controllers” in the video below.
Several “near disasters” that have occurred in just the past few months, were described by Carlson – that should concern every American about the adoption of these new standards by the aviation industry.
The United pilot “aborted the landing so dramatically that people on board were terrified,” as an example in Carlson’s claim — as when in last Wednesday, a United Airlines flight was just about to touch down at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, when a second plane began taxiing right into its path.
Chilling details about the consequences of the airlines’ walk on the woke side, were also provided by Carlson, as he read an account of the situation written by a veteran United Airlines pilot in December.
“[Name redacted] just told me about a B-triple-seven off Maui that almost crashed two nights ago. Both pilots became disoriented and pulled out of a dive 300 feet above the water, pulling two and a half G’s. …”
“I’m just home from Denver training center. There are some real horror stories out there about United, but management is hell-bent on just ignoring what is going on. The investigation is still on-going. … but the Captain of the Maui flight was brand new. There was a new-hire First Officer, and my understanding is that we almost lost an airplane for no good reason. Both have been sent back to go through the 4-week course.
“The new-hire first officer on my fleet is a nightmare. It took him 50 hours to get through Initial Operating Experience. Worse yet, talking to his instructor, out of his 25 landings in the simulator, 15 ended up in the dirt. Not one of them was on the centerline of the runway. They said his radio work is like that of a private pilot. He has no situational awareness.
“I’m jump-seating to SFO right now. A United B-triple-seven first officer is next to me. She said the training is totally inadequate for new hires. Her husband helps train them at [United’s in-house training academy] Aviate. He’s constantly asking these kids who come in, ‘has anyone told you what this is?’ Many have no idea what they’re getting into. They’re hiring people straight out of high school now. Zero aviation knowledge or desire. It’s just about the money and adhering to ESG.”
Airlines are dramatically lower hiring standards for pilots in the name of equity. At some point, many people are going to die because of this. pic.twitter.com/1lBMU5D0LG
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 15, 2023
It’s happening industry-wide, as the situation is not unique to United Airlines. Southwest Airlines, another company that has dropped its hiring requirements, was named by Carlson. Swift Air, “which is under contract from the Biden administration to fly illegal aliens around the country without the American population knowing about it,” employs many graduates of their own training program, Destination 225.
Last year, a crew member suffered serious injuries, as Carlson told viewers; he said that a newly hired Southwest pilot “hit the runway so hard on landing.”
Few would disagree that this method makes sense in the airline business, where a minor pilot error might result in the lives of hundreds of passengers, even if it’s never a good idea to put equity ahead of merit in any hiring decision.
Even liberals, I’m pretty sure, are more concerned with arriving at their destination safely than they are with the race or gender of the pilot. Although these incidents — the “near misses” — unfortunately, aren’t being reported by the media.
Sources: Flagandcross, The Western Journal, Foxnews
