re: News Item: Two JetBlue Aircraft Collide On Boston Tarmac…

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About 243,000 people are injured each year in these accidents and incidents; the injury rate is 9 per 1,000 departures.

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That is a troubling statistic.

And again, these incidents have increased markedly in the past decade or so.

The FAA itself reported that there was an 83% rise in runway incursions in the years between 2011 and 2017.

The question is why?

FAA responds to increased scrutiny on aviation safety…. ….

According to Federal Aviation Administration data, near-miss accidents where planes nearly hit each other have increased nearly 25% in the last decade, with about 300 such accidents in the most recent 12-month period for which reports are available.

Near misses in aviation are almost always the result of human error. Whether it’s a pilot flying or taxiing somewhere they’re not supposed to, or an air traffic controller clearing a plane to go somewhere that conflicts with another aircraft’s movement, these incidents don’t happen by themselves….

Since human error is the primary cause of such incidents, it seems very plausible to me that anything that distracts from the purported primary mission of the airline industry and the FAA — flying safely from point A to point B — is not only a needless distraction but potentially a deadly one.

Corporate and government mandated navel-gazing over “gender-neutral” language, quota hiring and other DEI nonsense are thus not simply extraneous to safety objectives but antithetical to that mission.