A conservative activist is raising questions about whether a relatively recent United Airlines hard landing was attributable to the company’s DEI agenda.
The hard landed occurred on July 29th as a previously uneventful United Airlines Boeing 767-300ER flight from the Newark Liberty International Airport to the George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston turned awfully dramatic.
“According to the [National Transportation Safety Board’s] preliminary report, while landing at IAH, the First Officer was flying and, despite best efforts to keep the nose wheel from bouncing, the nose wheel made contact with abnormal force,” as reported by Simple Flying, an aviation news source.
“The airplane appeared to bounce, and he reacted by pulling aft on the control yoke, in an effort to keep the nose wheel from impacting the runway a second time. Subsequently, the speed brakes deployed, and the auto brakes engaged which resulted in a second bounce of the nose wheel.”
These bounces reportedly caused significant damage to the airplane.
#United_Airlines Boeing 767-300 (N641UA) performed hard landing on runway 26L at Houston Intercontinental Airport.
Extensive damage to the fuselage had been identified post the flight. #aviation #USA pic.twitter.com/1eJneXx2Go
— Aviation World Group (@Aviationwg_en) August 1, 2023
The question now is why did this happen. Was it the airplane acting up, or was the pilot at fault? According to conservative activist Ashley St. Clair, it may well be the second one.
In a tweet posted Friday, she claimed the pilot was a DEI hire who’d “failed multiple trainings” but been hired anyway because he or she had checked the right identity boxes.
“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?” St. Clair wrote in her tweets.
“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?” she added.
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…
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) January 5, 2024
In an additional tweet, she accused the co-pilot of also having possibly been a DEI hire.
Look:
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?
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) January 5, 2024
When billionaire Elon Musk noted that this puts a lot of lives at risk “if true,” Ashley responded: “Wish it wasn’t & far from the only instance. Lots of very concerning corners being cut with DEI at United…”
Wish it wasn’t & far from the only instance. Lots of very concerning corners being cut with DEI at United…
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) January 6, 2024
Keep in mind these are unconfirmed allegations that have yet to be addressed by United Airlines.
However, United Airlines’ “diversity, equity, and inclusion” agenda does seem to suggest there could be some legitimacy to these allegations.
Three years ago in early 2021, the airline publicly vowed to up its so-called “diversity” by ensuring at least 50 percent of future hires were women or non-white minorities.
“Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people onboard our planes every day. That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color,” the airline tweeted at the time.
The announcement was met with heavy criticism by those who felt that hiring new pilots on the basis of gender and race instead of talent and qualifications was not only a discriminatory policy but a dangerous one as well.
Look:
Why did United Airlines just announce it’s instituting the sexist and racist practice of hiring based on gender and skin color?
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) April 7, 2021
United Airlines is now prioritizing race and gender over qualifications for hiring future pilots.
They are literally putting the lives of their customers at risk in the name of being woke.
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) April 7, 2021
Race and Gender are the LAST things that should matter when hiring a pilot.
United Airlines is going to put their riders at risk all so they can make liberals happy.
This is sick.
— Nick Adams (Alpha Male) (@NickAdamsinUSA) April 7, 2021
Since the DEI hiring decision in 2021, several other incidents have occurred, including one that happened in December of 2022.
“A United Airlines Boeing 777 plane taking off from Hawaii last December came within 775 feet of hitting the ocean less than two minutes after takeoff,” according to Popular Mechanics.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) later ruled that the incident was the result of pilot error.
“The [NTSB] said in a final report that the crew failed to manage the plane’s vertical path, airspeed, and nose direction after a mixup between the captain and the co-pilot,” San Francisco station correspondent Ken Wayne reported at the time.
Listen:
Were the pilots also DEI hires? Conservatives would sure like to know …
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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