Lawsuit uncovered FAA discrimination in hiring, rejecting over 1,000 qualified air traffic controller applicants based on race.
Obama-era FAA implemented biographical test favoring diversity over skills, ignored highly qualified candidates from CTI program.
Minority candidates given unfair advantage through “buzz words” and irrelevant questions, while qualified CTI graduates were passed over.
A class-action lawsuit by the Mountain States Legal Foundation has found a substantial amount of documents showing discriminatory hiring practices by the Obama-era Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) initiative, which rejected qualified air traffic controllers based solely on race.
https://aviationline.ng/faa-to-appear-in-court-for.../In 2024, the FAA exceeded its goal of hiring 1,800 air traffic controllers with a final total of 1,811 and they're still down nationwide controllers. The most recent crash in DC according to the US MSM says that the person working that shift was handling two positions because they only have 19 of 30 positions filled. I know as much as you would like to blame the man who was only in office days before the crash, the blame is misplaced. Dems have been in the White House 12 of the last 16 years with Obama era discrimination making a bad situation worse....
