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What’s really happening with our airline industry? Lately, it feels like every time we look, there’s another pilot facing sudden health issues, a major in-flight brawl, or planes falling apart midair.

Speaking of that, take a look at what just happened on an Alaska Airlines flight that was forced to emergency land after a window in a brand new Boeing plane blew out at 16,000 feet.

Whoops.

Raw Alerts:

🚨#BREAKING: Alaska Airlines Forced to Make an Emergency Landing After Large Aircraft Window Blows Out Mid-Air

📌#Portland | #Oregon

A Forced emergency landing was made of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 at Portland International Airport on Friday night. The flight, traveling from Portland to Ontario, California, faced severe depressurization, causing the ejection of a large window section and an unoccupied seat. This incident resulted in a child’s shirt being ripped off. The Boeing 737-900/-9MAX aircraft reached a maximum altitude of 16,300 ft before safely returning to Portland International Airport. As of now, it remains unclear if anyone on board the flight was injured, as this story is still developing.

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Now, the FAA has ordered all of the brand new Boeing 737 Max 9 airplanes to be temporarily grounded.

The Verge:

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered the “temporary grounding” of 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 airplanes this morning after section of fuselage separated off the side of an Alaska Airlines flight on Friday, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the plane. The agency said in its announcement that it will send an Emergency Airworthiness Directive out soon to require an inspection of all of the grounded planes that “will take around four to eight hours per aircraft.”

The New York Times reported yesterday that flight 1282 from Portland International Airport had made an emergency landing back at the same airport just 20 minutes later because of a “pressurization issue” that resulted in a wall of the plane blowing out. Incredibly, there were only minor injuries reported. According to the Times, no one was in the seat immediately next to the wall when it disappeared, and only minor injuries were reported. The abrupt depressurization also reportedly yanked the shirt off of a teenage passenger sitting nearby.

Pinpointing the exact problem with aviation is tricky, especially when our nation’s transportation secretary seems preoccupied with other matters.

But one of the issues may involve “diversity hires.” That’s what one conservative influencer is questioning after an anonymous source from the airline industry reportedly approached her. Conservative pundit Ashley St. Clair says an anonymous source shared some disturbing information with her regarding a recent mishap with a plane. St. Clair asked United Airlines about the issue, and if her source is right, it could be a bomb that rocks the entire aviation industry.

Ashley’s source is raising red flags about an incident that took place last summer: a July 29th flight that ended with the airplane nearly totaled. She asked UA who was operating the plane because her source claims the co-pilot was actually an unqualified hire made under the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion movement. If true, could this DEI hire have played a role in the reckless incident?

This is the question that Ashley, and others, want answered.

Here’s what she said in her thread on X:

Hey @united

On July 29, a United plane was nearly totaled after a hard landing

Who was flying that aircraft?

Was the co-pilot a former flight attendant who was FIRED and then rehired through United’s DEI program despite being on a list to not return to United?

Am I correct that this individual failed multiple trainings including simulator training?

Am I also correct that United has covered up this DEI disaster and many others?
Was the #2 at the Denver hiring center also onboarded through DEI? Did she or did she not change fail grades for DEI hires because “it makes the numbers look bad”?

Did the instructor who failed this co-pilot ask corporate why they passed him?

Our airline industry appears to be bracing for a “crash landing,” and American travelers are rightfully scared. From outdated equipment to archaic technology to pilots dying suddenly and passengers losing their minds mid-air, the American air travel experience is becoming a hellish nightmare.

These days are long gone.

Instead of the nostalgic piano bars on planes, we’ve shifted to in-flight entertainment that includes passengers going at it WWE-style. But let’s not forget the “golden age” of flying—it was truly America at her best.

 

 

However, when boarding a flight these days, you might feel like you need to do a “wellness” check on the pilot. It’s becoming alarmingly common to hear about pilots getting seriously ill or even dying, often while they’re thousands of feet in the air.

Revolver took a deep dive into the issues plaguing our airline industry, including the “diversity disaster.” It’s a concerning trend that’s not just happening to airlines but is spreading across the US. In an industry where expertise should unquestionably be the top priority, there’s growing concern that skill is being overshadowed by gender and skin color. It’s a situation that could easily endanger both crew and passengers.

Revolver:

The case of Damian Campbell and the near-collision incident in Austin, together with numerous other such incidents, raise troubling questions that deserve a deeper dive. Revolver News conducted an investigation into the matter in considerable depth. We spoke with several air traffic and FAA personnel, most of whom insisted on staying anonymous and off the record.

While the disturbing decline in aviation safety is complex and multifaceted, we identified two major contributing factors that have received scant media attention. The first such factor is the likely contribution of disastrous COVID-era policies to the staffing shortage of many air traffic control rooms. The second factor is that aggressive affirmative action policies implemented during the Obama administration have resulted in a catastrophic collapse in the quality of controllers. In short, COVID policies have gutted the quantity of air traffic controllers, and diversity policies have gutted the quality of air traffic controllers, creating unprecedented danger for the aviation industry.

Revolver calls what’s happening in aviation a “crisis of competency,” where airlines are putting progressive policies above safety.

The aggressive substitution of merit in favor of diversity has led to a so-called competency crisis, jeopardizing not only our ability to generate innovative technology but, in a more dire sense, our ability to simply maintain the proper functioning of various complex systems vital to our existence as a first-world civilization. Despite the superficiality of “diversity” as a matter of rhetoric, the reality of diversity as an ideological, cultural, and legal imperative is not merely cosmetic—far from it.

While a full treatment of this topic would run far outside the scope of this article, we have discussed elsewhere the manner and extent to which the affirmative action regime is embedded deeply into the law, economy, and every major institution in the country.

Sadly, there’s so much more to the story about our faltering airlines. We encourage you to read the entire Revolver piece and get informed.

Crash Landing: The Inside Scoop About How Covid and Affirmative Action Policy Gutted Aviation Safety

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