[Music] we require women and people of color to be involved in in the interview i have never seen a black woman fly a plane with fewer than 1% of pilots women of color in their various public statements and press releases United Airlines has made it very clear that they are mainly interested in hiring pilots on the basis of skin color and gender rather than competence in fact they participated in a Vice documentary back in 2022 um United did about their DEI initiatives uh watch so we are in a plane right now i'm about to take off with a student from United's new Aviate Academy bit nervous but let's do this pure is training to become a pilot with United Airlines which became the first major airline to launch its own flight school at the beginning of this year but United is making another push it said half of its recruits are going to be women or people of color a pretty ambitious goal for airline pilots who are 93% white and 95% male black women make up less than 1% of the pilot industry i have a confession guys i have never seen a black woman fly a plane what made you want to become a pilot so I was a flight attendant for three years at a major US airline and absolutely loved it so a couple years ago United decided that 50% of its new pilot recruits are going to be women or people of color and they're promoting flight attendants to make that happen later on in that Vice documentary it suggested that the the point of this initiative is to alleviate the pilot shortage well how is that going a few days ago the conservative commentator Ashley Stlair posed a few questions to United based on some information that she had received and here's what she wrote quote "On July 29th 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 DI disaster and many others that's the question she posed again from based on insider information that she had received now United didn't reply which you may have noticed is something of a pattern uh no one thinks we deserve to know anything about what's going on in the cockpits of the planes that we are flying in you're just supposed to assume that everything's fine and that the flight attendants are transforming into master pilots at United's Training Academy but the more you look into the specifics of United's diversity initiatives the less solid that assumption seems to be it turns out that United partners with several historically black colleges and universities or H.B.CU as a way of recruiting pilots one of the popular statistics focused accounts on X which uses the name IO noticed that two of the schools that United has decided to team up with which is Delaware State and Elizabeth City State University are quote in the bottom 2% of all undergraduate institutions in the United States the bottom 2% is where they're finding their pilots elizabeth State the account noted uh quote had the distinction in 1980s of being the only university in which the average SAT math score was lower than that score which would have been produced if a person had guessed B on all multiplechoice questions on the test that's a pretty sobering reality especially if you plan on flying United anytime soon now to be fair to United they don't just recruit from H.B.CU with no standards uh as a writer who goes by the pseudonym Peachy Keenan found United also recruits from an organization called Sisters of the Skies yes that is an organization that sends pilots to United Airlines and their acronym is literally SOS at least you can rest assured that they have a sense of humor at United as your plane is plummeting to the ground maybe that will give you a little bit of a laugh um and it gets better watch jada Williamson's always dreamed of sitting in the cockpit and calling the shots what I like about flying is I like you get to see different things you never seen but that dream of a career in aviation is a rare one for black girls to accomplish with fewer than 1% of pilots women of color it was tough I won't lie because there was no one that looked like me now Captain Terresa Clayborn is part of a group of trailblazing black women pilots hoping to increase those numbers we believe if they see it they can be it she was the first black female pilot in the US Air Force and is president of Sisters of the Skies she is now a United Airlines pilot why do you think more black women aren't becoming pilots it's extremely expensive i mean it takes upwards of $100,000 to get your licensing to fly so if our young ladies are not seeing it if their parents don't have the funding for it then they're it's not going to happen well that's inspirational if they can see it they can be it you know that's the kind of thing if you're in a if you're flying in a plane you know that that's that's that's what you want out of your pilot to know that uh well they they saw it at least that's the qualification that they they they that they uh fall into that they they saw it and they became it um now again this is an organization that's training the pilots that are flying commercial aircraft and this isn't training really it's this is like a kindergarten classroom and with these with these vapid self-help slogans and inspirational slogans at no point are these people concerned about safety or competence they want to put black women in the cockpit because they want to inspire more black women and that makes them feel good um not because they they they think they're getting smarter or better pilots because if you want to get smarter better pilots then that's all you're concerned with you just go looking for pilots who fit these qualifications regardless of what they look like if they happen to be a black woman then great if it ends up that you have no black women pilots then that is also great because if you're just hiring and recruiting based on merit then whoever's in there is the best for the job and it's fantastic this is not just some PR stunt united is actually following through on this according to United's latest corporate diversity report of the 51 students that graduated from United's first class of pilots quote nearly 80% were women or people of color so they vastly exceeded their target of 50% and you can just decide for yourself whether they got to that 80% figure because they happen it just so happened that all of the most qualified almost all the most qualified people were women or people of color i mean you you if you believe that then fine they've almost completely eliminated uh white men in their training classes and and we're led to believe that this is progress meanwhile pay no attention to the planes plummeting towards the ocean or smashing into the runway which is happening right now to be clear this is a problem that extends far beyond United Airlines i mean they're maybe the most vocal about their DEI practices but every airline does this a few years ago in February of 2019 an Amazon Air cargo plane a Boeing 767 operated by a contractor called Atlas Air plummeted into the Trinity Bay near Houston um now what was the reason for that crash well the first officer Conrad Asca accidentally pressed a button giving the plane a massive jolt in thrust which pitched the nose up and instead of reacting calmly to the situation as you trained good pilots are supposed to do he panicked and he forced the control column all the way down the plane broke through the clouds and disintegrated on impact with the water now Conrad Asca never should have been flying that plane prior to joining Atlas Air and Amazon he had worked for seven different airlines where he developed a reputation for pressing random buttons in emergencies he would always panic in the simulator and just lose all situational awareness and start pressing buttons but airlines kept putting him in the cockpit anyway and that's why in its final report on the crash the NTSB cited quote systemic deficiencies in the aviation industry selection and performance measurement practices which failed to address the first officer's aptitude related deficiencies and maladaptive stress response now what explains those systemic deficiencies well we can't say for sure we do know that Conrad Asca was born in the Caribbean nation of Antigua uh he was a black man which certainly checks some diversity boxes and we also know that Atlasair's website is full of platitudes about the importance of hiring candidates based on certain characteristics like their race and gender so we can come to some unauthorized theories here about why Conrad Asca was flying that plane and none of them are very encouraging now this is not to single out Amazon or United or or Atlas this kind of diversity hiring is endemic in the aviation industry keenan says that she's received several messages from pilots warning her of uh of this danger in recent days so here's one anonymous message that she posted quote "Every airline has an informal pilot assignment program that makes sure their unfirable DEI problem children are always paired with adult supervision these programs are maintained by aging boomers who are immune to the Kool-Aid as these guys retire every flight will be a roll of the dice." I remember back we just talked about that flight that almost crashed into the ocean and you had the one person who didn't know what they were doing and pressed the wrong button and then the other guy that's trying to figure out is that is that one of those situations was this a babysitting mission we don't know this rampant DEI mandate doesn't just extend to airlines either a few weeks ago on the show when I predicted that we're due for a major air disaster soon I talked mainly about DEI based hiring and air traffic control there's also a push to diversify the ranks of companies that manufacture and install various airline parts and that includes companies like Spirit Aeros Systems which is no relation to Spirit Airlines which manufactured that door that blew out on the Alaska Airlines flight over the over Portland the other day uh like United and Atlas Air Spirit Aeros Systems website is full of DEI propaganda in fact just days before the door blew out on the plane Spirit executives were posting eagerly on LinkedIn about their next big diversity event meanwhile the company knew they had more serious problems shortly before the door fell off of a passenger plane mid-flight Spirit Aeros Systems was hit with a class action lawsuit in federal court and in the lawsuit investors alleged that Spirit was aware of the systemic defects in their products but ignored them and falsified documents to hide them in one instance the lawsuit alleged quote "Auditors repeatedly found torque wrenches in mechanics toolboxes that were not properly calibrated." This was a potentially serious problem as a torque wrench that is out of calibration may not torque fasteners to the correct levels resulting in overtightening or undertightening that could threaten the structural integrity of the parts in question but the mechanics didn't want to comply with the audit according to the lawsuit quote "Some mechanics would not even let auditors take such out of calibration tools locking toolboxes or yanking them back out of the auditor's hands to prevent the audit." 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diversity and inclusion hiring plan which says diversity is integral to achieving FAA's mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond the FAA's website shows the agency's guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23rd 2022 um so this is part of their diversity efforts is to get in people with disabilities now uh in fairness just so that we don't engage in any clickbait hyperbole here this doesn't mean that United Airlines or or Southwest is going to go and hire a blind mentally disabled dwarf to be a commercial pilot now I wouldn't I wouldn't be surprised if we get to that point but that's not what this means at least not yet uh there are a lot of other jobs in uh the airline industry generally a lot of other jobs in the FAA and people who defend this policy or any DEI policy will argue that you know they they still have the same hiring standards in place that they always have so if they hire somebody with a physical disability or psychiatric problem that person is still going to have to pass all the same tests and demonstrate his fitness in the same way as anybody else which means that if they get the job then they're qualified and uh and that's the claim right that's the DEI defense and in theory that could be true in some cases like if there's a job filing paperwork or whatever at the FAA office there's no reason why somebody who's hearing impaired couldn't be perfectly qualified to do that job so in theory someone who happens to fulfill a DEI quota doesn't need to be unqualified in theory but if all if that's all that was happening right if they were just letting anybody apply and and then hiring the best of that crop um then you wouldn't need DEI because that was already the case okay but like I'm I'm pretty sure that prior to this DEI standard being put up on the website or updated in 2022 uh prior to that you know you could be a hearing impaired person and get a job filing paperwork at the FAA or what whatever i mean that was already the case so when you add in DEI you're adding in something extra um and what are you adding in well the moment you say we need we need to get more of this sort of person into these positions right you're looking at a particular demographic whether it's disabled whether it's uh black people whether it's women and you're looking at the demographic saying we we need more of them specifically you're not saying we need more qualified people you're saying we need more of those people and even if you're saying we need the most qualified of those people into this position even if that's what you're saying which is which which even that is is not actually like that would be better that would still be terrible that that would be better than what they're actually doing um but the moment you do that then you are going to end up lowering standards because with the current standards right before DEI whatever the standards were you had however many people you had in whatever demographic right and if you want more of that demographic the standards are going to get lowered that that because because with the standards up here you had you know the standards were up here you had x number of people in your favorite demographic So if you want to get even more then that means the standards are going down here and it's insane it's insane on many levels it's especially insane because um to begin with if you're looking at the airline industry and you say "Well we don't we have a minority of women or we have a minority of black people or we have a minority of disabled people." That's not a problem like why is that a problem if the ranks are full of people who are qualified and few of the qualified people happen to be female or black or whatever who cares doesn't matter doesn't make a difference it's not a problem that needs to be solved as long as you're bringing in the most qualified people whatever the demographic makeup happens to be at the end of that doesn't matter it's not a problem um and so so if if if if no one is black that ends up in that um that that you know ends up in that camp not a problem if you end up with everyone is black also not a problem as long as race is not taken into into account at all and you're just hiring the best people but again that's not how it goes and uh and here's the CEO of United making it clear how uh it really works how is diversity and diversity targets working into the Aviate Academy we have committed that 50% of the class of of the classes will be women or people of color today only 19% of our pilots at United Airlines are women or people of color and by the way from all the data I've seen that's the highest of any airline in the country white males don't just dominate in the cockpits also in the seauite at United Airlines well look at United I'm proud of the diversity that we actually have in our our seauite i think if you look around corporate America correct me if I'm saying though so I this was just based off your website the people you list as executives but out of 11 people three are women i believe one is a person of color um that's correct um but you know in corporate America I think you know that's a low bar how do you raise your own bar well a lot of this is you know focusing on it we have uh programs to One of the things we do is for every job when we do an interview we require women and people of color to be involved in in the interview process bringing people in early in their careers um as well and giving them those opportunities yeah you know you got to get those white males out of there right you know the the white males you know the the people that um have made air travel into the safest form of travel that's ever existed the form of travel where you're 35,000 ft in the air and going 400 miles an hour and that's the safest um so and the people who predominantly who achieved that were white males and so how do we thank them let's let's get them out of this and when I say that the people who predominantly achieve that are white males I I'm not making that up that's the proponents of DEI are the first to say that like they're the ones who are going to look at it and say "Well historically it's been a white male-dominated field." Okay so you're you're the one saying that okay well also historically what has this field achieved those white males who were dominating the field were they were they doing poorly was there an issue was there a problem were they screwing up no the people who not only invented human flight to begin with uh were white males and then the people who even according to the DEI proponents who made it unbelievably safe were also predominantly white males so yeah we got to get them out got to get those numbers down this is what we're doing we're looking at we're saying "Okay here's here's a here's an industry that's doing fantastically well uh has achieved feats uh unknown to mankind what's the demographic predominantly responsible for that let's single them out and then try to get rid of them." Um and that's what they're doing now it is uh it is suicide well I was going to say it's suicidal but it's not really because the CEO of United probably isn't even flying like he's probably flying private you know he's not back in coach on a United flight um so it's not suicidal for him i bet you he wants to make sure the people flying his planes that he's on are the most qualified uh so no it's not su suicidal really uh as far it's homicidal actually is what it is