I have a few related articles that will really make you question whether you want to get on a plane in America. It’s not just the DEI hiring policies at the airlines. It’s also the DEI hiring policies at the airplane parts manufacturers. And the DEI hiring policies in the FAA. And the DEI hiring policies in the Biden administration.

First one from Newsweek:

Alaska Airlines has grounded its entire fleet of Boeing 737 MAX-9 aircraft after a section of fuselage broke off mid-flight.

Alaska Airlines flight 1282, bound for Ontario, California, successfully made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport after the section of the plane separated from the aircraft body shortly after take off.

[…]Images and videos posted online show a rectangular section of the plane broken off, exposing the night sky and insulation material around the damaged area.

Matt Walsh had an interesting video related to this:

This is the “Spirit Aerosystems Engineering Dream Team“. It’s all women! Could this really be the people who engineer plane parts? The company is very big on DEI hiring.

Second one from Newsweek:

A video on social media shows flames apparently coming from a Boeing plane shortly after takeoff.

The brief clip, captured by someone on the ground, shows flames trailing an Atlas Air flight minutes after it took off from Miami International Airport on Thursday night.

The aircraft, a Boeing 747-8, took off from the Miami airport at 10:32 p.m. ET and had been heading to Puerto Rico when it was diverted, according to FlightAware.

[…]The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will investigate the incident.

Oh! The FAA is going to investigate the incident!

Third one is from New York Post:

The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.

“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”

The initiative is part of the FAA’s “Diversity and Inclusion” hiring plan, which claims “diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.”

[…]The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation, is a government agency charged with regulating civil aviation and employs roughly 45,000 people.

Pete Buttigieg? He is just the former mayor of a small town in Indiana. What does he know about transportation? Why was he picked for such an important job, when he has no education or experience in that area?

I have a trip coming up. I’m driving and staying in a hotel halfway.