re: Best video yet of Delta airplane crashing in Canada and flipping

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However, I can say that’s also why DEI creates the divisions it does. It’s not totally unfounded that white men without those connections could find themselves as the only ones without a leg up in certain situations.

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This is CERTAINLY true today.....it is entirely possible that a young white man without any familial connections who did not do particularly well in school may well find themselves in a difficult position career wise. That young man would be better off, however, than a similarly situated black man or woman of any color because the majority of people in a position to hire someone is far more likely to look like the young white man than any other group. This is due to the fact that for most of recent history, the last 60 years not withstanding, white men were hired and educated at a higher level than any other group simply based on their biological sex and skin color and we have a huge advantage of numbers even now because of this.

I was accepted into a trade apprenticeship straight out of high school I was qualified but I was also the 4th member of my family who worked in that trade in Atlanta. When I applied there were a little over 6000 applicants for 30 slots....some of those applicants were college graduates with several years experience in the trade. All 25 of those 30 slots went to applicants who had family members in the trade.....all 30 went to white applicants, 2 of whom were women whose fathers were in the trade, the rest men. This was in 1984 in Atlanta, a city with a sizeable black population and one of the highest % of educated black people in the US. Of the 25 applicants who were taken in who had family in the trade 14 flunked out. They were not qualified. This was not and is not unusual today....

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I have never heard of or met anyone that received an interview, much less a job offer, from Delta at 1500 hours - since that FAA rule went into place. The lowest flight time pilots are almost always Military fighter jet pilots, who are almost exclusively white males

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The 1500 number was a hypothetical. I have no idea what their actual minimums are. The point remains that a female or minority pilot with X number of hours is preferable to the hiring committee to a white make pilot with X number of hours.

I will agree though that military guys generally go to the front of the line.

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I have never heard of or met anyone that received an interview, much less a job offer, from Delta at 1500 hours - since that FAA rule went into place. The lowest flight time pilots are almost always Military fighter jet pilots, the vast majority who are white males.

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not going to see that much more since the Feds raised civilian mins, my biggest task in convincing my young fighter pilot buddies is that mins are reducible for mil pilots, but aside from that, at our airline if you are female/minority, have the min flight time met and can fog up a mirror you’re getting an offer, back in my day it was crazy, I had a friend get hired with 400 hours, 200 of which was in a Viper

ETA: but there was also a chick in my class hired with about 2000 hours, no college or ATP while everyone else in the class averaged 4000, ATP, and of course a college degree, and military

According to the FAA database, the girl who was flying this plane didn’t earn her certificate until January, a little over 40 days ago.

Basically brand new.

Reports that it was a 26 year old female recently licensed at the controls.. yikes.

Not a good look.

However, every minute they delay releasing the names of the pilots it becomes obvious why.

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someone on the internet with no vested interest

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I would say using their services as a “vested interest”.

I answered your questions.

Hiring practices have nothing to do with improved safety. Improvements in training and technology do.

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Reports that it was a 26 year old female recently licensed at the controls.. yikes.

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Unmanned flight.

Can't get them for false advertising.

Can’t wait for the CVR audio to be released so we can hear how much she was screaming.

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ILS approach with Altimeter set incorrectly I bet.

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