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On 01 Feb 2025, John Smyth <[email protected]> posted some news:[email protected]:

'Former air traffic controller says short staffing is 'attributable to
Obama administration''

'The lack of staffing is directly attributable to the Obama
administration terminating the lists of eligible, well-trained air
traffic control statements in 36 universities across the country in
2013 because they were too white''

<https://www.wnd.com/2025/01/former-air-traffic-controller-says-short-st >affing-is-attributable-to-obama-administration/>

'A former air traffic controller blamed the Obama administration
Thursday on Fox News for the short staffing in the aviation industry,
which reportedly led to the air collision at the Washington Reagan
National Airport.

A military helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet collided
near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., resulting in the
deaths of everyone on board both aircraft. An internal preliminary
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety report reviewed by The
New York Times revealed that staffing at the Ronald Reagan National
Airport air traffic control tower was insufficient for the time of day
and traffic volume when the collision occurred. Former air traffic
controller Michael Pearson said on "The Ingraham Angle" that the short staffing was "attributable to the Obama administration."

"The system has been under attack due to DEI and the FAA bowing to
wokeness since 2010, since the Obama administration," Pearson said.
"The lack of staffing is directly attributable to the Obama
administration terminating the lists of eligible, well-trained air
traffic control statements in 36 universities across the country in
2013 because they were too white."

Simultaneously, the FAA rolled out an immunity program which, Pearson
said, has fundamentally altered the handling of operational errors.

"The FAA also, at the same time, implemented an immunity program. So
you think you're seeing legitimate statistics? You're not. In the old
days, before 2010, the immunity program, if an air traffic controller
got two airplanes too close, too many times, it would be decertified
and retrained," Pearson said. "Now, they're not. All they have to do
within 48 hours of being noticed or being investigated for a potential separation error, they're called operational errors in the FAA, the controller simply has to avail themselves of this program that gives
them immunity."

The former controller said the immunity prevents the FAA from
retraining those who repeatedly demonstrate incompetence.

"The FAA cannot retrain these people. If somebody has a repetitive
instance of malfeasance or lack of competency, the FAA, because of
this immunity program, cannot rectify the situation. They have to
basically allow the person to remain in the same position," Pearson
said. "The union and the FAA working together to basically use this
program to gerrymander the statistics of near-matter collisions."

Earlier today, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach said that DEI
hiring practices have led to an increase in operational errors in the
air, resulting in hundreds of incidents. In 2024 alone, the FAA
reported that Reagan National Airport witnessed at least eight
near-midair collisions due to a shortage of air-traffic controllers on
the eastern seaboard, which also forced a reduction in the number of
flights in the region'

Obama illegally ran the Biden / Harris presidency for four years until
Trump ended it.

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