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Have you ever seen our aviation industry in such disarray? Honestly, it’s beginning to feel like we’re all traveling in cargo planes alongside crates of live chickens. What’s happening to US travel? Airports face routine cyber attacks; flights are being canceled left and right, stranding travelers for days in places like New Jersey. It feels as if the zany movie “Airplane” has sprung to life under the seemingly distracted oversight of chest-feeder Pete Buttigieg, the guy who famously took three months of “maternity leave” and nobody noticed he was gone. Perhaps it’s for the better, as he focuses on topics like racist bridges and roads and promotes “diversity” within the DOT.

Roll Call:

In his appearances, Buttigieg is repentant for the federal government’s role in building a federal transportation system that frequently cut through Black and brown neighborhoods in order to build freeways, often cutting off Black and brown populations from economic opportunity.

“We recognize how misguided investments and missed opportunities for federal transportation policies have reinforced racial and economic inequality,” he told the mayors’ group. “The wrong kind of investment can divide or isolate neighborhoods.”

Buttigieg has vowed to work to make transportation equitable, helping disadvantaged communities gain access to jobs and economic opportunity — a lofty goal for an agency that has traditionally been considered more about engineering and asphalt than about equality and social justice.

But while those who advocate such a change cheer Buttigieg’s comments, their hope is tempered with skepticism: Rhetoric is one thing, they say. It’s far more difficult to implement policy that will overhaul decades of inequitable transportation policies.

All the while, the United States aviation industry is falling out of the sky under Pete’s “diverse” watch.

While some of the turbulence in U.S. aviation might seem humorous on the surface—pun intended—there’s a deeply concerning side to all of this—the very real threat of plane crashes. Case in point: a shocking incident recently took place in Houston where two planes collided mid-air.

KHOU 11:

Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport was closed for more than three hours on Tuesday after two private planes crashed into each other on a runway.
According to Federal Aviation Administration officials, a Hawker business jet took off without permission and clipped a Cessna jet that had just landed at Hobby. No injuries were reported and it’s unclear how many people were on board the planes.

The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to Hobby to begin its investigation into what went wrong. Now the NTSB and FAA will work to figure out how this was allowed to happen.
KHOU 11 News has reached out to the owners of both business planes. So far, we have not heard back.

Below, you’ll find a graphic illustrating the sequence of events leading up to the midair collision. Seeing it laid out like this is truly unsettling.

For Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, it seems that midair collisions are just a minor concern. The more pressing question appears to be: does the DOT employ enough trans individuals, and are the roads and bridges less racist these days?

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