There’s no question that the doctrine of affirmative action is harmful to the nation because it’s pushing incompetence into all levels of society.
Now, I have nothing against the blacks. If someone qualifies for a job, very good; it doesn’t matter what color he is.
But just because they’re black therefore you have to give in to them and give them all the jobs even though they fail all the tests; even though they don't qualify?
No, that’s wrong. The liberal judges on the Supreme Court are changing the Constitution – the Constitution gives equal rights to everybody but the judges say ‘affirmative action’ and this and that...
— Rav Avigdor Miller
TAPE # 310 (April 1980)
https://torasavigdor.org/qa/rav-avigdor-miller-the-affirmative-action-doctrine/
All three men in the plane — all pilots — died on impact.
Retrieval of the plane's black box revealed the crash as entirely avoidable and the fault of one co-pilot so impulsive, the captain and the third pilot could not gain control of the situation — not even to save their lives.
The Mystery of the Airplane Disaster that Should Never Have Happened
But despite the first officer (who was flying the plane) knowing this (after all, he and the captain had programmed the autopilot to do exactly this), the first officer freaked out.
"Oh...whoa! Where's my speed? My speed!" Then, "We're stalling! Stall! Oh, Lord have mercy on myself! Lord have mercy!"
(In layman's terms, a "stall" occurs when the airplane stops flying. Unless the airplane manages to pull out of a stall, a stall causes the airplane to simply fall out of the sky. But this airplane wasn't stalling. It was shifting into go-around mode — again, exactly what it was supposed to do and what the first officer KNEW it would do.)
The captain, involved with programming the flight-management computer and communicating with Houston air traffic controllers, did not immediately realize what was going on.
After all, the plane wasn't stalling and the first officer just continued screaming the captain's and God's names without offering any further explanation.
And if you've ever been around people who act like something's horribly wrong when there's nothing wrong at all, it's pretty disorienting because you lock onto trying to figure out what's wrong before realizing nothing is wrong and you are simply the victim of hysteria or manipulation.
Except in this case, the first officer's hysterics were accompanied by him shoving the plane down into a nose-dive.
Furthermore, despite the other pilots demanding an explanation, he would not tell the other pilots what was wrong or why he perceived the plane as in a stall.
(Because there was no stall. It was just crazy hysterics for no reason, so he could not tell them what was "going on" and they needed to figure it out themselves within a few seconds...which they couldn't.)
For example, in response to the captain asking what was going on, the first officer simply said, "Lord."
In response to the third pilot asking, "What's goin' on?!", the first officer simply shouted the captain's name.
Further confusing things, the airplane was in a cloud when this happened, so no pilot could orient himself with the view outside until they broke through the clouds and the pilots realized they were plunging.
And yes, the pilots looked at the instruments, but only after the plane started plunging (because the first officer pushed the plane into a dive as he shouted about the non-existent stall).
Seconds before impact, the third pilot managed to yell, "Pull up!"
And both the captain and the first officer were pulling up at that point.
But it was too late.
From "Oh...whoa!" to impact, the whole event lasted only 71 seconds.
It was not enough time for the normal pilots to both figure out what was happening AND prevent the crash.
But why did this first officer respond with a disorientation and panic so uncharacteristic of normal qualified pilots?
And even if the plane had been in a stall (which it wasn't), the first officer's actions went completely against all his training.
In other words, even if there had been a stall, that's not how a pilot should bring a plane out of a stall.
What happened?
And why was such an obviously unqualified pilot flying a plane?
"A Train Wreck."
The record of his flying performance stood pocked with comments from flight examiners like:
- "situational awareness lacking"
- "regression and confusion on almost all...duties and callouts and procedures"
- "difficult time completing normal procedures"
- "procedures incorrect"
- "judgment poor"
- "didn't work well with [pilot monitoring] during in-flight emergency
- "steep turns exceed all PTS limits"
And this gem: "a train wreck."
The first officer hopped from company to company, never making captain and undergoing remedial training again and again.
The airline who last hired him testified under oath that the vast majority of pilots NEVER need ANY remedial training to make it through the training program.
In fact, the check pilot (the pilot who conducts the flying tests and decides whether to pass the guy or not) said, "I can probably count on one hand over the seven years the remedials I did."
That's how rare this kind of need is.
Regarding the first officer's flying test, one professional testified, "He was discombobulated from the very beginning for his 3 takeoff; things were going very poorly."
After examining to see whether the first officer's incompetence derived from nerves or lack of confidence, the professional concluded, "...it was actually a problem with his skills and it became apparent after not too much longer."
Why, O WHY was this hopelessly unskilled & "discombobulated" man given approval to fly — and given by the same airline making all these observations?
The first officer who crashed the plane consistently received ratings of "unsatisfactory" and "proficiency issues" — yet he received a pilot's license and approval to fly again and again by one company after another.
Yet this wasn't normal behavior.
Check pilots do not generally approve people who display such deplorable piloting behavior.
Companies do not usually hire pilots with such a poor record and who pretty much fail the company's own tests.
And yes, the first officer tried to conceal his disturbing history as he hopped from company to company, but they all had access to his records and they all tested him themselves.
In fact, even BEFORE this airline hired him, they knew his resume was full of distortions.
Yes.
Someone in human resources, who'd double-checked the first officer's resume, penned the truth next to each misrepresentation: "unsat," "proficiency issues," etc.
Yet they hired him knowing he lied and knowing he was totally unqualified.
After all, they clearly knew how bad he was.
Employees in the company testified under oath they cannot remember even ONE other pilot ever needing SO much training.
Why was it so important to this airline to both keep and keep training this obviously and hopelessly unqualified "train wreck"?
Why did the airline invest so many resources in a pilot deemed "discombobulated" and who had a "difficult time completing NORMAL procedures"?
While I don't see how one can prove why flight examiners and airlines allowed this guy to pass his flight tests and hire him, the first officer was a black man in a predominantly white career and in a society which increasingly demands "diversity" — no matter what.
After all, what other possible reason would allow "a train wreck" to pilot a plane?
The Role of the Captain
But as noted above, it's disorienting to have someone panic about something wholly imaginary.
We can assume the captain glanced at the flight controls, only to see the plane NOT stalling — adding further confusion as he simultaneously witnessed his first officer in hysterics over a supposed stall.
Also, the first officer did not communicate except for shouting his incorrect perceptions and calling out for the captain and God.
Furthermore, it is not the captain's job to babysit his first officer because — get this — the first officer is actually expected to know HOW to FLY the plane.
After all, the first officer is ALSO a fully qualified pilot — or supposed to be.
While the autopilot flew the plane with the first officer at its controls (and another pilot seated behind them), the captain took that opportunity to consult with Houston flight control on how to avoid problematic weather in the flight path.
That's very responsible behavior and exactly what all good flight crews do. Meaning, one pilot flies (or watches the autopilot fly) the plane while the other stays on top of avoiding potentially dangerous situations, like problematic weather.
Finally, when a plane is diving that fast at that angle, G-forces come into play — 4G, in this case — causing difficulty for physical movements of the pilots.
And remember: The captain only had seconds to figure out what was going on AND how to respond.
So it seems unfair to blame the captain for not babysitting or responding fast enough.
It also seems the only reason why flight instructors and airlines allowed this guy to fly — when they did NOT allow other equally unqualified people to fly — was because the first officer was black.
There's no other logical reason because they did not do this for anyone else (meaning, they did not approve unqualified white guys).
They only allowed the black guy to fly despite proven lies, ratings of "unsatisfactory," and a whole slew of disturbing comments.
But just because they’re black therefore you have to give in to them and give them all the jobs even though they fail all the tests; even though they don't qualify?
Keep ALL Unqualified People Out of the Pilot's Seat
That's stupid.
Saying an unqualified black man got his flying license because he was black is NOT the same as saying black people can't fly.
What a manipulative stand to take.
Of course black people can fly planes.
In fact, the African airlines feature black pilots who fly just fine.
Furthermore, the airlines with the highest fatalities are owned by Indonesia, Nepal, and Afghanistan — not Africa.
Obviously, black people can fly just as well as white people.
(And the reason why white pilots comprise the majority of airplane crashes is because the vast majority of pilots are white.)
The problem with the Trinity Bay crash was an UNQUALIFIED black man held the flight controls.
WHY did all these companies and individuals allow that to happen?
Regardless of color, no UNQUALIFIED person should sit in the pilot's seat.
So the problem is NOT that a black man was flying the plane.
That's a stupid accusation.
(If anything, it makes white males look bad because the majority of check pilots are white males — and therefore, the guys most likely to have allowed this "train wreck" to fly.)
The problem is experienced professionals approved a dangerously unqualified pilot to fly a plane — only because he was black.
Whether the licensing and hiring of the first officer resulted from official affirmative action or an unofficial desire for more "diversity," we see how licensing and hiring a wholly unqualified person solely based on the color of his skin led to the violent deaths of 3 men.
"There’s no question that the doctrine of affirmative action is harmful..."