FAA launches recruitment campaign for workers with 'severe intellectual' disabilities

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The agency is hunting people with psychiatric issues and other mental and physical conditions in its latest diversity drive. The FAA, which includes jobs such as air traffic controllers, are keen to employ those with hearing and vision impairments, missing limbs, partial and complete paralysis. Such a broad recruitment is all part of what the FAA term its 'Diversity and Inclusion' hiring plan

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The FAA states on its website how individuals with 'severe' mental and physical disabilities represent an under-represented segment of the federal workforce.

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However, there has been renewed attention on the FAA and the airline industry as a whole following an incident earlier this month when a plug door on a Boeing 737 Max 9 malfunctioned during an Alaska Airlines flight.

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Following the shocking incident, some public figures including Elon Musk suggested that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives may be responsible for compromising safety in the airline industry. 'It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE,' Musk wrote on his X platform on Tuesday, rearranging the abbreviation for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).

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