Originally Posted by
Swakid8
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401
Northwest Airlines Flight 255
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141
PSA Flight 2495
AA Flight 1420
It’s obvious pilots pilots of non minority/male status have also have their share crashes and mishaps with perfect records right…..
Atlas 3591 was a breakdown in the PRIA system and a carrier at the time desperate for bodies in the flight deck at the time and no body in the training department speaking up washing the guy out…..
But if you want to point crashes that involves folks of non-minority/ or male status. The numbers will not support your stance…..
Mods, this thread needs to die….
With all due respect I think you are advocating for my point of view. For example, AA1420 had two military pilots in the cockpit.
Are you aware of the bias in hiring military pilots 20, 30 and 40 years ago? Are you aware how many outstanding civilian pilots were passed up while military pilots with chinks in their armor were hired?
I’m unaware of people being discriminatory in this thread, or advocating one group is better than another. I think the argument is being made that unfortunately politics that are unrelated to safety are a fundamental aspect to our profession, that politics have been embedded in our career since the Wright Brothers and this has hindered the development of our careers and the industry as a whole.
Politics change with the wind, but the bias in hiring pilots continues…instead of focusing on safety factors, in some cases irrelevant reasons to hire and retain pilots are justified for the sake of things that are not safety related. Military, nepotism, gender and race are just some of the examples. It isn’t about racism, sexism or another other -ism, it’s about the imperfection and bias of human beings, how perhaps when a company says safety is #1 that in reality that may not be true.