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The FAA diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. That is amazing,
Finding out what happened to cause an accident and making changes to get better is what safety is about,
No, I don't think so at all. The names of the people — you mean the names of the people that are on the plane? You think that's going to make a difference? They are a group of people that have lost their lives,
Trump said, saying a list would be released soon This was a dark and excruciating night in our nation’s capital,
he said during the sober remarks I’m not trying to be political here, but the information that came out...it was not accurate. It undermined the honesty of the investigation,
You made an important point that when we deal with safety, we can only accept the best and the brightest in positions of safety that impact the lives of our loved ones, our family members,
It is not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that."
He struggled through a separate Thursday morning press briefing, telling reporters the obvious line Their policy was horrible, and their politics was even worse,
Trump said of past Democratic administrations that included diversity programs I’ve been an investigator for 35 years, investigating aircraft accidents, and when you talk about standards, what we just saw does not meet the published international standards of providing information in the wake of an accident,
Jeff Guzzetti, a former investigator for the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board, told MSNBC I can't imagine people with 2020 vision, not seeing what's happening up there."
In addition to DEI programs among air traffic controllers, Trump also blamed a "pilot problem" in the helicopter and bad eyesight That guy's a real winner…he’s a disaster
FAA employees with disabilities did not cause last night’s tragic plane crash,
the American Association of People with Disabilities said in a statement We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch,
I’m sure this has nothing to do with mandated Diversity Equity and Inclusion practices in the airline industry!!!,
Donald Trump Jr. posted on X in response to a post about a wheel falling off a Boeing 757 One thing that has to be remembered is that there are standards for everyone in aviation, notably in a safety critical position, bit pilots, be it flight attendants, be it dispatchers, be it air traffic controllers,
President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again,
A group within the FAA determined that the workforce was too white, then they had concerted efforts to get the administration to change that and to change it immediately,
There’s never been any proof that DEI causes any safety issues, because it doesn’t,
We have to have our smartest people” as air traffic controllers
Trump said Thursday morning We’re proud to see thousands of first responders in the DMV region unify to support the enormous recovery efforts taking place on the Potomac.”
About emergency response from Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia personnel, Johnson said
