https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/affirmative-action-quotas-question-female-minority-pilots-caused/

Talk about a damning report that DEI is again causing needless deaths. You cannot base quality on race, gender and feelings. Everybody knows the most recent one of a woman pilot error causing her helicopter to crash into a regional passenger jet killing all 67 people between the 2 aircraft.

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In an article for the New York Post, Huff wrote that President Donald Trump was right to rescind diversity efforts at the Federal Aviation Administration.

That's because female and minority pilots many of whom entered the industry amid a drive toward diversity among pilots were responsible for half of pilot-error crashes.

Despite making up 10 percent of pilots, they were responsible for four out of eight such crashes since 2000.

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FatZilla said:

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/affirmative-action-quotas-question-female-minority-pilots-caused/

Talk about a damning report that DEI is again causing needless deaths. You cannot base quality on race, gender and feelings. Everybody knows the most recent one of a woman pilot error causing her helicopter to crash into a regional passenger jet killing all 67 people between the 2 aircraft.

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In an article for the New York Post, Huff wrote that President Donald Trump was right to rescind diversity efforts at the Federal Aviation Administration.

That's because female and minority pilots many of whom entered the industry amid a drive toward diversity among pilots were responsible for half of pilot-error crashes.

Despite making up 10 percent of pilots, they were responsible for four out of eight such crashes since 2000.

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When you take a population of underperforming candidates for complex work activities that cannot meet required competencies and allow them to proceed. Well bad things are going to happen.

I will always remember Don Lemon interview with Elon Musk where Don Lemon refused to acknowledge this fact when Elon was using doctors as an example. Don Lemon is just a despicable person. I wish he would play a character in a Jurassic Park movie to where I could enjoy him being torn apart by those little dinosaurs.

Flagged as false. OP claims DEI is responsible. 4 out of 8 and it must be because DEI? Fear mongering 101.

Now imagine an Asian, female, lesbian pilot!!!!



Woah, Nelly!

yep look at the helicopter crash DEI woman Bide lover. Also, the crash in Canada that girl had no business flying that plane another DEI push.

Also, when I fly and see a middle-aged white guy as the pilot I know I will be ok.

TA-OP said:

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Flagged as false. OP claims DEI is responsible. 4 out of 8 and it must be because DEI? Fear mongering 101.

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Not sure what your expectations are regarding a sample size, but sorry there wasn't more crashes I guess?

BigRobSA said:

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Now imagine an Asian, female, lesbian pilot!!!!



Woah, Nelly!

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Wi Tu Lo

Wow, color me shocked!

TA-OP said:

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Flagged as false. OP claims DEI is responsible. 4 out of 8 and it must be because DEI? Fear mongering 101.

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My goodness, this is weak. How
Much does Soros pay for you to
Post and get a post you don't like removed?

I was on one airline one day going from Houston to New Orleans and it had a female pilot.

Landing in New Orleans, she landed so softly that it was difficult to even tell when we touched down. It was easily the softest landing that I have ever seen in anything but a helicopter. She got a large round of applause from nearly the entire cabin.

Except me. I have no idea how far we floated down the runway before touching down. I'd rather have a solid landing and not risk going off the end.

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I was on one airline one day going from Houston to New Orleans and it had a female pilot.

Landing in New Orleans, she landed so softly that it was difficult to even tell when we touched down. It was easily the softest landing that I have ever seen in anything but a helicopter. She got a large round of applause from nearly the entire cabin.

Except me. I have no idea how far we floated down the runway before touching down. I'd rather have a solid landing and not risk going off the end.

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Ignoring the fact that your story is almost certainly made up (plane fulls of passengers don't clap here in the states...ever),

You admittedly have no idea where the plane touched down, yet because there was a woman up there, you're just choosing to believe that it wasn't in the touchdown zone because you don't want to believe that a woman had a good landing? What a weird thing to say.

Also, why do you think you know who actually performed the landing?

It sounds like you were just angry that you had a woman pilot, and were looking for ANY reason to discredit that flight, even when you couldn't find a real one.

How was your in-flight sammich?

Let's get to brass tacks, here.

At least she didn't crash. That's been happening too much, as the OP pointed out. Maybe Eric's pilot wasn't a DEI hire. But she still may have been.

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eric76 said:

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I was on one airline one day going from Houston to New Orleans and it had a female pilot.

Landing in New Orleans, she landed so softly that it was difficult to even tell when we touched down. It was easily the softest landing that I have ever seen in anything but a helicopter. She got a large round of applause from nearly the entire cabin.

Except me. I have no idea how far we floated down the runway before touching down. I'd rather have a solid landing and not risk going off the end.

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Ignoring the fact that your story is almost certainly made up (plane fulls of passengers don't clap here in the states...ever),

You admittedly have no idea where the plane touched down, yet because there was a woman up there, you're just choosing to believe that it wasn't in the touchdown zone because you don't want to believe that a woman had a good landing? What a weird thing to say.

Also, why do you think you know who actually performed the landing?

It sounds like you were just angry that you had a woman pilot, and were looking for ANY reason to discredit that flight, even when you couldn't find a real one.

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It may not happen often but it DOES happen. I have been on clap landing flight. I would say it's usually because how bad the flight was (turbulence-wise), not how good it was though.

IMO, that's what makes a DEI policy bad. The good, deserving minority candidates get tagged as DEI when they earned their spot. If we didn't force DEI, then the suspicious mindset of every minority being non-deserving would not exist. Let merit be the true deciding factor.

So can we say that out loud or do we just ignore it and let people die?

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eric76 said:

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I was on one airline one day going from Houston to New Orleans and it had a female pilot.

Landing in New Orleans, she landed so softly that it was difficult to even tell when we touched down. It was easily the softest landing that I have ever seen in anything but a helicopter. She got a large round of applause from nearly the entire cabin.

Except me. I have no idea how far we floated down the runway before touching down. I'd rather have a solid landing and not risk going off the end.

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Ignoring the fact that your story is almost certainly made up (plane fulls of passengers don't clap here in the states...ever),

You admittedly have no idea where the plane touched down, yet because there was a woman up there, you're just choosing to believe that it wasn't in the touchdown zone because you don't want to believe that a woman had a good landing? What a weird thing to say.

Also, why do you think you know who actually performed the landing?

It sounds like you were just angry that you had a woman pilot, and were looking for ANY reason to discredit that flight, even when you couldn't find a real one.

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I was literally on a flight in 1988 where this happened. The turbulence was horrifying and everyone broke out in applause when we landed.

BigRobSA said:

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Now imagine an Asian, female, lesbian pilot!!!!



Woah, Nelly!

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I mean they can't drive for ***** How're they gonna fly a plane?

FatZilla said:

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Despite making up 10 percent of pilots, they were responsible for four out of eight such crashes since 2000.

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Now do automobile crashes as a control.

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Flagged as false. OP claims DEI is responsible. 4 out of 8 and it must be because DEI? Fear mongering 101.

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I'll bite. There were 8 crashes and 4 were the fault of a group that combine to be make of 10% of the workforce. Those are facts that by definition cannot be false. If you want to argue we don't have enough data to draw such conclusions as that in the OP I'm fine with that but you can't claim it's false. Rather you should refute it with better facts. For example what if all four of those pilots the OP is suggesting were DEI hires were in fact military trained pilots that flew C-17 during their time in the service. Or what if all of them were hired 20 years ago which was way before the Biden admin began pushing racism and sexism as hiring filters for pilot slots. Either of those would be quality research and an excellent contribution to this thread. Flagging as false something that's factually correct just because the OP drew a conclusion on incomplete data is just childish.

Hth

Should that be crossed with references to fuzzy steering wheels in Altimas and arms of sunglasses so thick they eliminate peripheral vision? Or do we need to break that out so as to not show such disparity? What do you want the graph to say?

eric76 said:

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I was on one airline one day going from Houston to New Orleans and it had a female pilot.

Landing in New Orleans, she landed so softly that it was difficult to even tell when we touched down. It was easily the softest landing that I have ever seen in anything but a helicopter. She got a large round of applause from nearly the entire cabin.

Except me. I have no idea how far we floated down the runway before touching down. I'd rather have a solid landing and not risk going off the end.

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Ah the classic Leftist Doubkethink!

They want special treatment to hire women and (certain) minorities (sorry Asians, you're not useful enough to The Party) but also refuse to recognize that they want that special treatment because those groups are not performing as well as White and Asian males and Dems care more about equal outcomes than they do the merit required to do a job

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Flagged as false. OP claims DEI is responsible. 4 out of 8 and it must be because DEI? Fear mongering 101.

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The OP quoted an article, so are claiming the Article is false, or the OP's quoted of it?
Also, the quote compared the ratio of crashed 4:8 to the ratio of women and minority pilots since 2000; 1:10.

I don't read any fear mongering, just report numbers.

Further, the OP used the numbers to make the point that skill level and competency are not affected by skin color or sex. To hire people for jobs like airline pilots that require skill, responsible decision making, etc., based primarily on skin color and/or sex quotas is reckless and endangers people.
The above statements are common sense and the facts presented support this. How is this fear mongering? Who should the above statements offend? How is this 'False'?

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Flagged as false. OP claims DEI is responsible. 4 out of 8 and it must be because DEI? Fear mongering 101.

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The probability of something that has a 10% chance of occurring and it happening 4 out of 8 times is 0.46%. Those are the statistics when there are no other factors at play (such as race or gender, or perhaps most importantly, merit)

DEI itself is the problem and not minorities or women. When you lower the bar arbitrarily, you get bad results.

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Flagged as false. OP claims DEI is responsible. 4 out of 8 and it must be because DEI? Fear mongering 101.

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You don't understand the difference between statement of fact and statement of opinion. His opinion, based on true facts, is that DEI is the root cause. You are free to disagree with that opinion. but declaring it as false is fallacious.

TxSquarebody said:

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Should that be crossed with references to fuzzy steering wheels in Altimas and arms of sunglasses so thick they eliminate peripheral vision? Or do we need to break that out so as to not show such disparity? What do you want the graph to say?

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Surprise me.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728

Has the kitchen done layoffs? Why don't women want to work there anymore?

I would like to see the years of experience of each of these 8 crashes, which also might be a factor. If years of experience tell a better tale, that would be important to consider. I would imagine that DEI hires make up more than 10% of pilots with, let's say, less than 5 years experience.

But, if that number is more like 25% DEI hires for younger pilots, then the data is still very interesting. If 50% of younger pilots are DEI hires, and all 8 of these subject crashes came from younger pilots, then the data is not as compelling.

Aggieland Proud said:

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IMO, that's what makes a DEI policy bad. The good, deserving minority candidates get tagged as DEI when they earned their spot. If we didn't force DEI, then the suspicious mindset of every minority being non-deserving would not exist. Let merit be the true deciding factor.

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it's what Charley Kirk was talking about and got lambasted for

eric76 said:

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I was on one airline one day going from Houston to New Orleans and it had a female pilot.

Landing in New Orleans, she landed so softly that it was difficult to even tell when we touched down. It was easily the softest landing that I have ever seen in anything but a helicopter. She got a large round of applause from nearly the entire cabin.

Except me. I have no idea how far we floated down the runway before touching down. I'd rather have a solid landing and not risk going off the end.

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"I'll take $500 on Things That Never Happened, Alex".

TA-OP said:

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Flagged as false. OP claims DEI is responsible. 4 out of 8 and it must be because DEI? Fear mongering 101.

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Great, nothing to see here. Unless you are one who is now dead because an unqualified person was operating an aircraft when I have to wonder if they could operate a bicycle.

Tell me, would you want a doctor operating on you without an accredited medical program at an institution known for admitting less qualified candidates? I know you will say but racism. I could not give a singular f*** about race if one is qualified to do the work. But when so many schools, including A&M, admit students due to skin color or what they have between their legs rather than merit, I am right to have some questions.

I also do not want to take a ride on any vehicle operated by someone not properly trained in its operation and with sufficiently long hours in operating that vehicle.

BigRobSA said:

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Now imagine an Asian, female, lesbian pilot!!!!



Woah, Nelly!

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I'll never forget years ago watching a morning news puff piece about a young Asian girl that had won something like this national spelling bee. She had also made straight A's throughout school but was asked if she ever made anything less. Very self aware, she said well it's kind of a cliche but I did get a B once…. In driver's education.

She was so poised, I often wonder where she is now.

Who could have seen that coming?