Two United Airlines planes were forced to land late this week over incidents that occurred during their flights.
At least seven passengers on United Airlines Flight 85 from Tel Aviv to Newark were hospitalized for injuries they sustained after the plane hit unexpected turbulence just moments before landing.
The 11-hour flight was cleared to land at Newark International Airport in New Jersey and was only 750 feet above the ground when pilots decided that they were going to abort the landing because they experienced &#8220;wind shear,&#8221; which ABC 7 New York <a href="https://abc7ny.com/united-flight-85-from-tel-aviv-to-newark-diverted-stewart-international-airport-in-orange-county-injuries-reported/14591116/">describes</a> as &#8220;a sudden change in wind direction.&#8221;
The flight was diverted to Stewart International Airport, where emergency crews were standing by the render assistance once the plane landed.
&#8220;Oh, it was really like Six Flags,&#8221; said passenger Roi Gonen. &#8220;My heart just jumped a couple times. I was texting my wife just in case. Two seats behind me I saw a woman vomiting.&#8221;
The injured passengers were taken to Montefiore St. Luke&#8217;s Cornwall, according to New Windsor EMS.
&#8220;We had 320 people on the plane,&#8221; said Michael Bigg of New Windsor EMS. &#8220;We evaluated about 30 people and we transported seven to a local hospital just for observation, no major injuries or ailments but most people want to get checked out at the emergency room.&#8221;
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UPDATE: 312 passengers onboard Newark-bound United Airlines Boeing 787 from Tel Aviv that diverted to Stewart Airport due to “extreme turbulence,” 7 passengers taken to the hospital with minor injuries and 15 treated on site &#8211; according to New Windsor EMS. (📷 New Windsor EMS) <a href="https://t.co/nnmOMOT6Af">pic.twitter.com/nnmOMOT6Af</a>
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A separate United Airlines Boeing 777-200 flight from San Francisco to Paris was forced to land at Denver International Airport on Thursday night after suffering engine problems with one of the plane&#8217;s two engines.
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United Airlines has faced numerous negative headlines this month over incidents that have occurred during flights, including a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tire-falls-off-united-boeing-flight-during-takeoff-damages-multiple-cars">tire falling off</a> of a plane and crushing cars in a parking lot, a plane <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-airlines-boeing-737-loses-external-panel-mid-air">losing</a> an external panel while it was in the air, a plane <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-airlines-boeing-737-goes-off-runway-in-houston">sliding</a> off the runway, a plane <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-la-in-airlines-4th-emergency-this-week">forced</a> to make an emergency landing after suffering a hydraulic failure, and more.

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United Airlines Passengers Hospitalized After Flight Incident; Another United Flight Forced To Land With Engine Trouble

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A United Airlines <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boeing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boeing</a> 737 lost an external panel while it was in the air between San Francisco and Oregon on Friday with the airline crew only discovering the part was missing after the plane landed.
The Boeing 737-800 — which departed around 10:40 a.m. as United Airlines flight 433 carrying 139 passengers and six crew members — landed safely over an hour later at Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/us-news/boeing-737-loses-external-panel-mid-flight/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Airport Director Amber Judd told the outlet that after one of the plane&#8217;s external panels was found to be missing, the airport&#8217;s operations were temporarily halted as it conducted a safety check on the runway.
“After finding no debris on the airfield, normal operations at MFR resumed a few minutes later,” Judd said.
While in flight, there was no indication that the plane had any problem or emergency, the airline said. The plane, which is 25 years old, will undergo a &#8220;thorough examination,” according to United, which added that it will “perform all the needed repairs before it returns to service&#8221; and &#8220;conduct an investigation to better understand how this damage occurred.”
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Breaking?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Breaking</a>: United Airlines Boeing 737 loses panel mid-flight after takeoff from San Francisco, diverts to Oregon airport. Plane lands safely, no injuries reported.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Boeing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Boeing</a> <a href="https://t.co/MgmnLaUn5v">pic.twitter.com/MgmnLaUn5v</a>
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The Federal Aviation Administration also said it will investigate the incident.
The latest mid-air incident comes amid a string of mishaps involving Boeing aircraft. Last week, a tire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tire-falls-off-united-boeing-flight-during-takeoff-damages-multiple-cars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fell off</a> a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 as it was taking off. The tire damaged multiple cars in a parking lot, but no one was injured.
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here is video of a tire falling off a united flight today at SFO
this comes one month after a wheel fell off a Delta plane in atlanta just prior to takeoff <a href="https://t.co/OrednBxQ7g">pic.twitter.com/OrednBxQ7g</a>
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Days earlier, a United flight from Houston to Fort Myers, Florida, was forced to turn around after one of its engines burst into flames.
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The FAA is investigating a mechanical issue on a United Airlines flight that caused flames to shoot from the rear of an engine minutes after takeoff on Monday. <a href="https://t.co/jrwnIglEGT">https://t.co/jrwnIglEGT</a> <a href="https://t.co/8VoCBoDHfk">pic.twitter.com/8VoCBoDHfk</a>
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In January, a door plug fell off of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max minutes after it had taken off from Portland, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boeing-refusing-to-hand-over-records-on-alaska-airlines-plane-that-lost-chunk-of-its-wall-mid-air-gov-official-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation last week, saying that Boeing was refusing to tell investigators the names of people on a 25-member team that worked on a door plug that came off the Alaska Airlines plane.
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“Boeing has not provided us with the documents and information that we have requested numerous times over the past few months, specifically with respect to opening, closing, and removal of the door,” the NTSB chair said.
“It’s absurd that two months later we don’t have that,” she added. “Without that information, that raises concerns about quality assurance, quality management, [and] safety management systems.”
Boeing <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/boeing-documents-ntsb-alaska-door-plug-probe/story?id=107846602" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC News that it has “worked proactively and transparently” to support the NTSB investigation.
“Early in the investigation, we provided the NTSB with names of Boeing employees, including door specialists, who we believed would have relevant information,” Boeing said. “We have now provided the full list of individuals on the 737 door team, in response to a recent request. With respect to documentation, if the door plug removal was undocumented there would be no documentation to share.”

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United Airlines experienced two flight emergencies over the weekend, the fourth and fifth that the airline has faced in just a week.
On Saturday, a United Airlines flight was forced to return to Chicago O’Hare International Airport after the plane&#8217;s oil warning system lit up. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it was launching an investigation into the incident with the Airbus A320.
On Friday, a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Mexico City made an emergency landing in Los Angeles after the plane experienced a problem with its hydraulic system. The FAA said it would investigate the incident, which also involved an Airbus A320.
The two incidents come after United Airlines experienced three more incidents last week involving Boeing aircraft.
The third incident, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-airlines-boeing-737-goes-off-runway-in-houston">unfolded</a> on Friday, involved a United flight sliding off the runway after it experienced a left main landing gear collapse after trying to taxi off runway 27 at IAH airport in Houston, Texas.
On Thursday, a tire fell off a United Airlines flight headed to Japan, crushing several cars in a parking lot below.
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here is video of a tire falling off a united flight today at SFO
this comes one month after a wheel fell off a Delta plane in atlanta just prior to takeoff <a href="https://t.co/OrednBxQ7g">pic.twitter.com/OrednBxQ7g</a>
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Last Monday, a United Airlines flight that took off from Houston to Fort Myers was forced to turn around after flames shot out from an engine.
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The FAA is investigating a mechanical issue on a United Airlines flight that caused flames to shoot from the rear of an engine minutes after takeoff on Monday. <a href="https://t.co/jrwnIglEGT">https://t.co/jrwnIglEGT</a> <a href="https://t.co/8VoCBoDHfk">pic.twitter.com/8VoCBoDHfk</a>
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United Airlines said in a statement, &#8220;Each of these events is distinct and unrelated to one another.”
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“We take every safety event seriously and will investigate each of the incidents that occurred this week to understand what happened and learn from them,” United said. “Much of this work is conducted together with the manufacturers, the FAA, and the NTSB as well as with the manufacturers of individual components … Safety is our top priority, and we’ll continue to do everything we can to keep our customers and employees safe.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-airlines-flight-plummets-28000-feet-after-leaving-new-jersey-for-rome-forced-to-return">United Airlines Flight Plummets 28,000 Feet After Leaving New Jersey For Rome, Forced To Return</a>

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-airlines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Airlines</a> plane flying to Mexico had to make an emergency landing in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> on Friday due to a “hydraulic failure.”
The plane, an Airbus A320 carrying around 110 people, was flying from San Francisco to Mexico City when it made an emergency stop at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday afternoon after a &#8220;complete hydraulic failure” was <a href="https://abc7.com/united-flight-makes-emergency-landing-at-los-angeles-international-airport-after-reports-of-suspected-hydraulics-failure/14505488/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The emergency landing took place at around 4:30 p.m. local time. 
&#8220;The flight landed safely and passengers were deplaned normally at the gate,&#8221; United said, noting that passengers would be transferred to a different plane to complete their trip. 
United said that it appeared that one of the hydraulic systems was down. “This aircraft type has three hydraulic systems for redundancy purposes. Preliminary information shows there was only an issue with one system on this aircraft,” the airline said. 
The Federal Aviation Administration announced that it will be investigating the incident which comes as United has faced a series of airplane related mishaps this week.  
Earlier on Friday, a United Airlines Boeing 737 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-airlines-boeing-737-goes-off-runway-in-houston" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went off</a> the runway and got stuck in the grass at the George W. Bush Airport in Houston, Texas. The 160 people on board all had to be evacuated from the craft. 
A day before, on Thursday, a United Airlines plane <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/united-plane-loses-tire-takeoff-san-francisco-international-airport/3475104/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taking off</a> from San Francisco International Airport lost a tire, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tire-falls-off-united-boeing-flight-during-takeoff-damages-multiple-cars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plunged to the ground</a> and damaged vehicles in a parking lot. The plane, bound for Japan, was diverted to Los Angeles.
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Finally, on Monday a United Airlines flight that took off from Houston to Fort Myers was forced to turn around after one of its engines erupted in flames. United Flight 1118 was in the air less than 15 minutes before it had to turn around, according to data from FlightAware.
“United flight 1118 returned to Houston shortly after takeoff due to an engine issue,” the airline said in a statement. “The flight landed safely, and the passengers deplaned normally. We arranged for a new aircraft to take our customers to their destination, which departed for Fort Myers later that evening.”
The incidents come as conservatives have raised concerns about the integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion into the airline industry at the cost of competency.

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If you&#8217;ve followed my show regularly over the past few months, you know that I&#8217;ve done a couple of monologues on the aviation industry. 
The frequency of near-disasters in the sky has increased dramatically in recent years, and as I&#8217;ve noted, the increase began around the time that the Obama administration began a concerted effort to &#8220;diversify&#8221; the FAA, including air traffic control. According to a NASA database, which tracks self-reported data from pilots, we now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-government-diversity-initiatives-are-leading-us-to-a-major-airline-disaster">average</a> roughly five near-misses per week — more than double the number from a decade ago. And that&#8217;s not even getting into the obvious maintenance issues that have been popping up — including doors and wheels that have been flying off planes lately.
Given how terrible all of this looks from the outside, I wanted to get a better idea of what&#8217;s happening internally at the FAA and major airlines in this country. We hear a lot about DEI in the abstract sense, but we rarely get a glimpse of what it looks like in practice. We don&#8217;t often hear firsthand testimonials from people affected by DEI because they&#8217;re worried about protecting their careers. They know if they speak out, they&#8217;ll face termination, and they&#8217;ll probably be blackballed from the industry forever. But with social media, some level of anonymity is possible. So to take a closer look at how far this DEI rot has spread, I <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1744869138151924174?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>: &#8220;If you&#8217;re an airline pilot and have firsthand knowledge about the DEI agenda being forced into your profession, send me a DM and tell me about your experiences. Curious yet terrified to see how bad it is at this point.&#8221;
To say my inbox was completely flooded would be an understatement. I received too many DM&#8217;s to count from pilots and other professionals in the aviation industry. Virtually every single message told me the same thing: that the ideology of &#8220;diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8221; is the top priority in their workplaces. It goes without saying, but this is an industry where one mistake can kill hundreds or even thousands of people. This is not comparable to DEI departments in universities or corporate America, as destructive and as wasteful as those departments are. DEI in the aviation industry could lead to a catastrophic disaster. That&#8217;s why — even though it was a risk — several of these sources provided me identifying information to validate their identities, along with permission to post some of the internal documents and footage they&#8217;ve obtained. These people knew they might lose their jobs, but they decided that getting the word out was more important.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1311-i-ve-obtained-internal-footage-revealing-the-faa-s-plans-to-reduce-the-number-of-white-males-in-aviation-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
Yesterday, I posted some of these materials on my Twitter feed. They reveal that, at the very highest levels of the FAA, there&#8217;s an effort underway to reduce the number of white men who work in the aviation industry. In April of 2022, the FAA&#8217;s acting deputy chief operating officer — a woman named Angela McCullough — led a meeting with the FAA&#8217;s Flight Operations division. This division is responsible for all aspects of aviation operations, including overseeing airline maintenance. 
But McCullough did not spend the call talking about ways to make sure that airplane doors don&#8217;t fly off mid-flight. She didn&#8217;t say a word about the importance of keeping the wheels attached to jetliners as they&#8217;re taking off. Instead, McCullough talked extensively about DEI. As you&#8217;ll see, she was prompted to do so by a man named Wil Riggins, who&#8217;s the FAA&#8217;s Vice President of Flight Program Operations. 
If that name sounds familiar at all, it&#8217;s probably because Riggins is the same guy who <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/15/faa-dot-coordinated-to-hide-cost-of-buttigiegs-flights-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conspired</a> to find ways to hide Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s spending on government aircraft. So this is a completely corrupt group of bureaucrats who have assembled here. Watch:
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2/ The footage begins with FAA acting deputy chief operating officer Angela McCullough saying more workers need to go from &quot;ramp to cockpit,&quot; meaning she wants to see more baggage handlers become airline pilots. <a href="https://t.co/2KAeHNcJA2">pic.twitter.com/2KAeHNcJA2</a>
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&#8220;We&#8217;re looking at a need across the agency to recruit and retain a diverse population of folks,&#8221; says Wil Riggins. In response, McCullough talks about the arms race of DEI that&#8217;s occurring in the industry. She mentions &#8220;partnerships with universities.&#8221; And then she says the FAA wants to look at something called &#8220;ramp to cockpit.&#8221;
Let&#8217;s think about this. When she&#8217;s talking about &#8220;partnerships with universities&#8221; in the name of diversifying aviation, McCullough is referring to relationships that airlines have established with historically black colleges and universities. For example, United Airlines has <a href="https://www.northcarolina.edu/news/elizabeth-city-state-university-united-airlines-launch-partnership/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allied</a> with Elizabeth City State University. The airline describes this as, &#8220;a partnership that seeks to not only train future pilots, but also bring more women and people of color into the ranks of commercial aviation.&#8221;
In case it&#8217;s not obvious, Elizabeth City State University is not a hotbed of engineering or aviation talent. In fact it&#8217;s not a hotbed of any kind of skill whatsoever. The average SAT score at the school is 960 out of 1600, which is one of the lowest scores that you&#8217;ll find anywhere in the country. The only reason for partnerships like this is because of the racial makeup of Elizabeth City State University, which is overwhelmingly black. This is the kind of partnership that, based on this video, senior FAA officials want to see more of. 
They aren&#8217;t interested in seeing the best pilots in the cockpit. They&#8217;re interested in seeing more black pilots in the cockpit.
That also could explain why McCullough is promoting something called &#8220;ramp to cockpit&#8221; in that footage. When she says &#8220;ramp,&#8221; she&#8217;s referring to ramp agents, who are responsible for loading and unloading baggage on airplanes. Evidently, the FAA believes that these employees deserve some sort of specialized program to encourage them to become pilots. But nowhere in this footage does McCullough explain why this makes any sense whatsoever. It doesn&#8217;t follow in any way. The job of a baggage handler is completely different from the job of an airline pilot. There are precisely zero transferable skills or even interests. Just because you have a job working around a plane doesn’t mean you should be flying them. This is like having a “janitor to surgeon” pipeline at a hospital, or setting up a program so that the window washer cleaning the outside of the skyscraper can one day become an architect designing skyscrapers. These two lines of work have almost nothing to do with each other. So what’s the point of this?
A few seconds later, McCullough provides something of an answer. She tells the FAA&#8217;s senior leadership in Flight Operations that their whole division is &#8220;white-male dominated.&#8221; Then she says that should change. And Wil Riggins, rather than reacting with surprise to this suggestion, agrees with her. Watch:
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There&#8217;s no pushback from anyone in that clip, as they listen to this. No one says, &#8220;wait a minute — why should baggage handlers become pilots? And what&#8217;s wrong with having a lot of white men in Flight Operations, exactly?&#8221; Instead, this woman gets complimented for her insights.
But of course, not everyone on the call was in agreement. They didn&#8217;t want to speak up because they&#8217;d be fired. But they knew this was going to happen. So one individual recorded the meeting. This source had seen several white men get passed over for jobs because of their skin color, and he or she heard these kinds of remarks all the time at the FAA. That&#8217;s why the source saved it, and it&#8217;s why we have it now.
As of this morning, neither the FAA nor the secretary of transportation, Mayor Pete, has responded to this footage. That&#8217;s because it reflects exactly what they believe. This is what they talk about behind closed doors. They want fewer white people flying planes and working in Flight Operations, including maintenance. They want more baggage handlers to become pilots. And they are not remotely concerned about professional standards or competence. That topic just doesn&#8217;t come up in their discussions.
This what DEI is all about, and it&#8217;s not limited to Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s agency. In response to my post, I received several other tips from sources outside of the FAA who say they&#8217;re seeing similar policies all across the aviation industry. Airlines are promoting DEI as well, even when it clearly endangers passengers. One source — a pilot at Delta Airlines — told me this: &#8220;We recently had a transgender pilot repeatedly receive negative reviews during his first-year probationary period from Captains he flew with regarding attitude, CRM, and judgment, yet the Chief Pilot’s Office (CPO) was unwilling to address the issue. Had this not been a transgender pilot, the individual would likely not have successfully completed their probationary period. Coincidentally, that CPO has a management pilot on staff who recently transitioned who is able to weigh in on these matters.&#8221;
This is what the airlines and the FAA will never admit publicly. They&#8217;ll never admit that they&#8217;re lowering standards, and endangering the public, in order to get more &#8220;diverse&#8221; pilots flying planes. But that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happening. The source also sent along this internal Delta Airlines manual that&#8217;s designed to help Delta pilots &#8220;transition&#8221; into another gender. Here&#8217;s what that looks like:
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7/ The source also notes that Delta routinely makes exceptions for trans-identifying pilots concerning grooming and behavioral standards. Internally, Delta has even published a lengthy guide for pilots who believe they were born in the wrong body. <a href="https://t.co/8aQszhqVJw">pic.twitter.com/8aQszhqVJw</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1755319191123439760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It reads, &#8220;Helpful Steps for Transitioning at Delta.&#8221; And of course there&#8217;s the pilot with the trans pride flag draped over his body.
It goes without saying that this is incredibly irresponsible for several reasons. Put aside the fact that Delta is discriminating against qualified pilots on the basis of their skin color and gender, and promoting incompetent pilots instead. This document shows that Delta is also going out of their way to recruit trans-identifying pilots — people with extremely high rates of mental illness, and a propensity for suicide. Remember, these are people who, according to the trans activists themselves, are at risk to kill themselves if they’re misgendered or if they don’t receive all of the “affirmation” they feel they need. And the FAA and Delta want to more of them flying commercial aircraft.
In fact, in private, they&#8217;re open about the fact that they&#8217;re willing to endanger the public in order to hit diversity goals. Recently on Twitter, someone named Trace Woodgrains has been looking closely at FAA documents that were unearthed in a long-running class action lawsuit filed against the agency back during the Obama years. And he found further proof that the agency does not care if &#8220;diversity&#8221; costs people their lives. They&#8217;ve put it in writing. In 2013, for example, FAA leaders reviewed this slide:
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It reads: &#8220;Key questions for leadership: What are the relative values of diversity and the prediction of performance/outcomes? There is a trade-off between diversity (adverse impact) and predicted job performance/outcomes. How much of a change in job performance is acceptable to achieve diversity goals?&#8221;
So there it is, as clear as it could possibly be. The answer to that question should be: No trade-off in job performance is acceptable to achieve any diversity goals. The mission of the FAA is to make sure people don&#8217;t die on airplanes. But increasingly it&#8217;s clear that&#8217;s not important to the FAA. I didn&#8217;t mention this on Twitter, but one of the sources who DM&#8217;d me sent this information over: &#8220;I was unaware of this until recently, but the FAA has authorized special issuance medical certificates to individuals on SSRIs &#8230; The FAA and the [airline pilots association] are looking to broaden/expand the SSRI and mental health on-ramps back to being able to exercise a first class medical certificate.&#8221;
In other words, the agency is doing everything it can to ensure that pilots taking antidepressants can fly. At the same time, the source says: &#8220;The FAA just sent a letter requesting Congress NOT to raise the mandatory retirement age from the current age of 65, and the FAA primarily states safety as a justification. Obviously, there’s zero safety data that shows a switch is flipped when you turn 65 and you are somehow instantly less competent; we all know competent 70 year olds and incompetent 50 year olds running around. &#8230;The point is that the FAA and [the pilot&#8217;s association] are much more willing to go along with the idea that SSRIs and transitioning pilots being at the controls is somehow more safe than someone who just woke up on their 65th birthday.&#8221;
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These are the kind of incoherent medical standards we&#8217;ve come to expect in the FAA. A year ago, for example, the FAA abruptly lowered its medical certification guidelines for pilots with heart block. This is a serious condition; it makes it harder for the heart to pump blood effectively. Before the change, pilots with first-degree block had to provide medical documentation proving they had, “no evidence of structural function or coronary heart disease.&#8221; Now, many pilots with first-degree heart block can fly without this documentation. There was a lot of speculation this was due to complications of the COVID shot, or that this might implicate the safety of passengers. The FAA denied that, but of course we have no reason to believe anything they say anymore. This is what we can expect from the federal government at this point. Even on matters of life-or-death, they have absolutely no credibility.
There are some more documents I posted on Twitter along these lines, including some insider information on how the FAA awards contracts to various small businesses. These small businesses handle important engineering and logistics tasks for the agency. But it turns out that these contracts, like everything else these days, often prioritize &#8220;socially disadvantaged&#8221; businesses, which according to federal regulations, typically means businesses that aren&#8217;t owned by white people. In the FAA&#8217;s &#8220;eFast&#8221; contract system, these &#8220;disadvantaged&#8221; businesses get first dibs at contracts valued under $150,000.
What this means is that the FAA has adopted a gender and race-based spoils system for pretty much everything. At every step — whether you&#8217;re a baggage handler, a pilot, or a contractor — you will get priority treatment if you look a certain way. The only way to bring an end to this is for more whistleblowers to do what they did yesterday, and speak out about it. Record the meetings where they tell you they don&#8217;t want white people working for them. Save the documents showing they&#8217;re promoting incompetent pilots because they&#8217;re &#8220;trans.&#8221; If we expose enough of this, then it might finally collapse under the weight of its absurdity. If we don&#8217;t — if we allow it to fester, as everyone on that FAA videoconference did — then before long, people will die as a result.

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I’ve Obtained Internal Footage Revealing The FAA’s Plans To Reduce The Number Of White Males In Aviation 

I've Obtained Internal Footage Revealing The FAA's Plans To Reduce The Number Of White Males In Aviation 

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In December of 2022, a Boeing 777 operated by United Airlines took off from Hawaii in heavy rain. About a minute into the flight, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/screams-on-the-plane-united-flight-was-5-to-5-2-seconds-from-hitting-pacific-ocean-passenger-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the aircraft plummeted</a> towards the ocean. It came just 750 feet from hitting the water at high-speed, which almost certainly would have killed all 280 people on board. In the end, the pilots saved the aircraft by a matter of seconds.
For more than two months, no one heard about this incident. It was as if it had never happened. By the time mainstream news reports began appearing in February, more than two months later, United assured the public that the FAA had been notified and that an investigation would be forthcoming. Watch:
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Notice how there&#8217;s not much curiosity from the anchor about why this incident took so long for the airline to disclose to the public. There&#8217;s also not much of an explanation about what happened. It&#8217;s implied that the pilots may have made a mistake, because they&#8217;re getting more &#8220;training.&#8221; But what mistake did they make exactly?
Late last year, we got something of an official answer. It turns out that, according to the NTSB, the captain called for the flaps to be retracted to the 5 degree setting, which is a normal setting for takeoff. But the first officer thought the captain had called for a 15 degree setting, so he selected that one. That misunderstanding caused a major problem because the plane was going far too fast for that flap setting.
To avoid damaging the plane, the captain started to slow the aircraft while he tried to diagnose the problem. Instead of realizing his mistake, the first officer suggested that maybe the instruments were malfunctioning. The two pilots continued to troubleshoot the problem, and in the process they became disoriented as the plane quickly lost altitude. The pilots&#8217; confusion continued until the plane blared an alarm telling them they were about to die if they didn&#8217;t apply maximum power and pull up.
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Incredibly, both pilots of that flight are still employed by United Airlines. They nearly killed everyone on board through their incompetence, but that&#8217;s not disqualifying apparently. Beyond some basic information about their flying experience, we still don&#8217;t know much about these two pilots. For example, we know that the first officer has a total of 5,300 hours of flying experience, which is respectable for his position. But at the time of the incident, he only had 120 hours in the Boeing 777. And according to a report by Tucker Carlson last year, which cited an anonymous source at United shortly after this near-catastrophe took place, this first officer was a &#8220;new hire&#8221; at the airline. Could that lack of experience have played a role? And more to the point, could either of the pilot&#8217;s identity have played a role in their hiring — or the airline&#8217;s refusal to terminate them after they almost steered a passenger jet into the ocean?
We don&#8217;t know. We&#8217;re not allowed to know because the federal government and the airline don&#8217;t want us to know any more information about the identity of these pilots, or any of their pilots who are involved in near-disasters. There is an ongoing information blackout about these kinds of events, and it&#8217;s deliberate. But in their various public statements and press releases, United Airlines has made it very clear that they&#8217;re mainly interested in hiring pilots on the basis of skin color and gender, rather than competence. In fact, they participated in a Vice documentary back in 2022 about their DEI initiatives. Watch:
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So a couple of years ago, United decided that 50% of its new pilot recruits are going to be women or people of color. They&#8217;re promoting flight attendants to make that happen. Later on in that Vice documentary, it&#8217;s suggested that the point of this initiative is to alleviate the pilot shortage. 
How&#8217;s that going? A few days ago, the conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair posed a few questions to United, based on some information she had received. Here&#8217;s what she wrote: &#8220;On July 29, a United plane was nearly totaled after a hard landing. Who was flying that aircraft? Was the co-pilot a former flight attendant who was FIRED and then rehired through United’s DEI program despite being on a list to not return to United? Am I correct that this individual failed multiple trainings including simulator training? Am I also correct that United has covered up this DEI disaster and many others?&#8221;
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Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/united?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@united</a> 
On July 29, a United plane was nearly totaled after a hard landing
Who was flying that aircraft? 
Was the co-pilot a former flight attendant who was FIRED and then rehired through United’s DEI program despite being on a list to not return to United?
Am I correct…
&mdash; Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) <a href="https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1743346866186514878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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United didn&#8217;t reply, which you may have noticed is something of a pattern. No one thinks we deserve to know anything about what&#8217;s going on in the cockpits of the planes that we&#8217;re flying in. You&#8217;re just supposed to assume everything&#8217;s fine, and that the flight attendants are transforming into master pilots at United&#8217;s training academy.
But the more you look into the specifics of United&#8217;s diversity initiatives, the less solid that assumption seems to be. It turns out that United partners with several historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, as a way of recruiting pilots. One of the popular <a href="https://twitter.com/eyeslasho?lang=en">statistics-focused</a> accounts on X, which uses the name i/o, noticed that two of the schools that United has decided to team up with — Delaware State and Elizabeth City State University — are, &#8220;in the bottom 2% of all undergraduate institutions in the United States.&#8221; Elizabeth State, the account noted, &#8220;had the distinction in the 1980s of being the only university in which the average SAT math score was lower than that score which would have been produced if a person had guessed &#8216;B&#8217; on all the multiple choice questions on the test.&#8221;
That&#8217;s a pretty sobering statistic, especially if you plan on flying United anytime soon. To be fair to United, they don&#8217;t just recruit from HBCUs with no standards. As a writer who goes by the pseudonym Peachy Keenan found, United also recruits from an organization called &#8220;Sisters of the Skies.&#8221; Yes, this is an organization that sends pilots to United Airlines, and their acronym is literally &#8220;S.O.S.&#8221; At least you can rest assured that they have a sense of humor at United, as your plane is plummeting to the ground. And it gets better. Watch:
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&#8220;If they see it, they can be it,&#8221; at least as long as their parents can pay for flight school. That&#8217;s the message. Again, this is an organization that&#8217;s training the pilots that are flying commercial aircraft. This isn&#8217;t training, really. It&#8217;s like a kindergarten classroom. At no point are these people concerned about safety or competence. They want to put black women in the cockpit because they want to inspire more black women, and that makes them feel good — not because they think they&#8217;re getting smarter or better pilots. 
This is not some P.R. stunt. United is actually following through with this. According to United&#8217;s latest corporate diversity report, of the 51 students that graduated from United&#8217;s first class of pilots, &#8220;nearly 80 percent were women or people of color.&#8221; So they vastly exceeded their target of 50%. They&#8217;ve almost completely eliminated white men in their training classes. We&#8217;re led to believe that this is progress. Pay no attention to the planes plummeting towards the ocean or smashing into the runway.
To be clear, this is a problem that extends far beyond United Airlines. They&#8217;re maybe the most vocal about their DEI practices, but every airline does this.
A few years ago, in February of 2019, an Amazon Air cargo plane — a Boeing 767 operated by a contractor called Atlas Air — plummeted into Trinity Bay near Houston. The reason for that crash? The first officer, Conrad Aska, accidentally pressed a button giving the plane a massive jolt in thrust, which pitched the nose up. Instead of reacting calmly to the situation, he panicked, and forced the control column all the way down. The plane broke through the clouds and disintegrated on impact with the water.
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Conrad Aska never should have been flying that plane. Prior to joining Atlas Air and Amazon, he had worked for seven different airlines, where he developed a reputation for pressing random buttons in emergencies. He would always panic in the simulator and just lose all situational awareness. But airlines kept putting him in the cockpit anyway. That&#8217;s why, in its final report on the crash, the N.T.S.B. cited, &#8220;systemic deficiencies in the aviation industry&#8217;s selection and performance measurement practices, which failed to address the first officer&#8217;s aptitude-related deficiencies and maladaptive stress response.&#8221;
What explains those &#8220;systemic deficiencies&#8221;? Well, we can&#8217;t say for sure. We do know that Conrad Aska was born in the Caribbean nation of Antigua. He was a black man, which certainly checks some diversity boxes. And we also know that Atlas Air&#8217;s website is full of platitudes about the importance of hiring candidates based on certain characteristics, like their race and gender. So, we can come to some unauthorized theories here about why Conrad Aska was flying that plane. None of them are encouraging.
This isn&#8217;t to single out United or Amazon or Atlas. This kind of diversity hiring is endemic in the aviation industry. Keenan says she&#8217;s received several messages from pilots warning her of the danger in recent days. Here&#8217;s one of them: &#8220;Every airline has an informal pilot assignment program that makes sure their unfireable DEI problem children are always paired with adult supervision. These programs are maintained by aging boomers who are immune to the kool-aid. As these guys retire &#8230; every flight will be a roll of the dice.&#8221;
This rampant DEI mandate doesn&#8217;t just extend to airlines. A few weeks ago on this show, when I predicted that we&#8217;re due for a major air disaster soon, I talked mainly about DEI-based hiring in air traffic control. There&#8217;s also a push to &#8220;diversify&#8221; the ranks of companies that manufacture and install various airline parts. That includes companies like Spirit AeroSystems (no relation to Spirit Airlines), which manufactured that door that blew out on the Alaska Airlines flight over Portland the other day. Like United and Atlas Air, Spirit AeroSystems&#8217; website is full of DEI propaganda. In fact, just days before the door blew out on the plane, Spirit executives were posting eagerly on LinkedIn about their next big diversity event.
Meanwhile the company knew that they had more serious problems. Shortly before their door fell off a passenger plane mid-flight, Spirit AeroSystems was hit with a class action lawsuit in federal court. In the lawsuit, investors alleged that Spirit was aware of systemic defects in its products, but ignored them and falsified documents to hide them. In one instance, the lawsuit alleges, &#8220;auditors repeatedly found torque wrenches in mechanics’ toolboxes that were not properly calibrated. This was potentially a serious problem, as a torque wrench that is out of calibration may not torque fasteners to the correct levels, resulting in over-tightening or under-tightening that could threaten the structural integrity of the parts in question.&#8221;
But the mechanics didn&#8217;t want to comply with the audit. According to the lawsuit, &#8220;Some mechanics would not even let auditors take such out-of-calibration tools, locking toolboxes or yanking them back out of the auditors’ hands to prevent the audit.&#8221;
Obviously, if these accusations are even remotely true, they reveal some very concerning problems at a company that makes critical components for passenger planes. So how did things get so bad? It turns out that, according to the lawsuit, <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/news/2020/07/31/spirit-aerosystems-announces-more-wichita-layoffs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spirit fired</a> roughly 50% of its workforce in response to the COVID lockdowns. They terminated many &#8220;experienced mechanics&#8221; in response to the economic consequences of those shutdowns, according to the suit. How did Spirit decide who to retain after these completely unnecessary lockdowns? How did they decide who to hire after the lockdowns ended? Why did they keep the engineers who apparently don&#8217;t understand how to calibrate their torque wrenches?
If you take Spirit AeroSystems at its word, they probably hired a bunch of &#8220;diverse&#8221; mechanics. That&#8217;s what all of their marketing materials and investor pitches would dictate. But the truth is, at this point, we can&#8217;t be more specific than that. Is it possible that a crack team of mechanics manufactured the doors on all these United and Alaska Air planes? As of now, yes it is. Maybe the fault lies not with Spirit, but with Boeing, which has been in decline ever since it made the decision to to outsource key elements of its business to overseas programmers and penny-pinchers in Chicago. Maybe Boeing installed the door improperly.
But at a certain point, we&#8217;re entitled to some answers. We shouldn&#8217;t have to guess or speculate about this. We should know the qualifications and the identities of the people manufacturing and installing these airplane doors, just like we should know the qualifications and identities of the United pilots who are skimming the water with Boeing passenger jets. We shouldn&#8217;t have any doubts about their competence. We&#8217;re the ones who just funded the bailouts for all of these companies. We&#8217;re the ones risking our lives to board their planes.
And, yes, the situation is that dire. Last night I put out a general invitation to commercial airline pilots to message me — anonymously, if they prefer — to tell me their firsthand experience of how DEI is impacting their profession. I’m still going through all of the messages — I received a lot of them — but what I can tell you is that, as I sit here today, I am not at all eager to ever board a plane again. The airline industry is in the process of actively making itself less competent and reliable. To an incredibly dangerous extent. When it comes to the pilots, the old guard — the masters of their profession, who were hired and promoted based on their skill alone — are still mostly in control. But not for long.
Meanwhile the airline industry is hiding the truth and lying about the dangers that we face. Like the COVID cultists who wrecked the economy, the DEI cultists desperately don&#8217;t want you thinking about the downstream effects of their ideology. And as a result, every time an airplane takes off in this country, we&#8217;re getting closer and closer to discovering those downstream effects the hard way.

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The DEI Rot In The Airline Industry Is Way Worse Than You Think

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-airlines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Airlines</a> flight was forced to turn around this week after plummeting 28,000 feet in a matter of minutes after taking off to Rome from New Jersey.
Data from FlightAware said the plane dropped from about 37,000 feet down to just 9,000 feet in the span of eight minutes just after 10 p.m. EST on Wednesday night, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/united-airlines-flight-drops-pressurization/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>. The airline said that the plane returned &#8220;to address a possible loss of cabin pressure.&#8221;
&#8220;United Airlines Flight 510 returned safely to Newark Liberty International Airport around 12:25 a.m. local time on Thursday, Sept. 14, after the crew reported a pressurization issue,&#8221; the Federal Aviation Administration <a href="https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/statements" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;The Boeing 777 was headed to Rome–Fiumicino International Airport.&#8221;
The CNN report said that the flight with 270 passengers and 14 crew members landed safely.
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In December, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-separate-incident-from-hawaii-flight-five-people-go-to-hospital-after-severe-turbulence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least five people</a> went to the hospital for injuries sustained during “severe turbulence” on a United Airlines flight from Brazil headed to Houston.
“The flight experienced severe turbulence that resulted in five passengers being transported to the hospital once it landed in Houston,” public information officer Augusto Bernal said.
According to United, the injured included two passengers and three crew members.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that the plane — a Boeing 767 — reported experiencing turbulence as it traveled over Cancun, Mexico.
The incident comes after a similar situation also occurred in December on a Hawaiian Airlines flight that resulted in 20 people going to the hospital. In total, 36 people on the Hawaiian Airlines flight were hurt. The plane touched down at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu on Sunday morning. Eleven people were admitted with serious conditions, while nine others were stable.
“Injuries included a serious head injury, lacerations, bruising and loss of consciousness,” Shayne Enright, a Honolulu Emergency Medical Services spokeswoman, said, per The New York Times.
“We are also very happy and we feel fortunate that there were not any deaths or other critical injuries,” Jim Ireland, director of Honolulu Emergency Medical Services, said.
“It’s the holidays, everybody’s trying to come here for vacation or come back home,” he added. “It’s generally a time when people are happy. And so this is obviously something that they didn’t plan for in their journey here.”
Jon Snook, the executive vice president and chief operating officer for Hawaiian Air, told reporters that the “fasten seatbelt” sign was illuminated when the incident took place.
“Sometimes, these air pockets occur with no warning. It’s rare to have that level of extreme turbulence. It was a very extreme case of mid-air turbulence,” Snook said. “We’re very thankful the extent of the injuries was not critical. It could have been worse.”
Charlotte Pence Bond contributed to this report.

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United Airlines Flight Plummets 28,000 Feet After Leaving New Jersey For Rome, Forced To Return

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United Airlines resumed flights across the U.S. on Tuesday after experiencing a computer problem, the airline said in a statement.
&#8220;We have identified a fix for the technology issue and flights have resumed,&#8221; the company said in an update. &#8220;We’re working with impacted customers to help them reach their destinations as soon as possible.&#8221;
The Federal Aviation Administration had announced the temporary grounding on Tuesday afternoon.
&#8220;.@united asked the FAA to pause the airline’s departures nationwide,&#8221; the FAA wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. &#8220;For more information, contact United regarding its request.&#8221;
The agency said people should also monitor its website for updates.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/united?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@united</a> asked the FAA to pause the airline’s departures nationwide. For more information, contact United regarding its request and monitor <a href="https://t.co/smgdqJN3td">https://t.co/smgdqJN3td</a> for updates.
&mdash; The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/1699114092080865700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We are experiencing a systemwide technology issue and are holding all aircraft at their departure airports,&#8221; United Airlines said during the temporary grounding of flights. &#8220;Flights that are already airborne are continuing to their destination as planned. We will share more information as it becomes available. Thank you for your patience as we work on a resolution to get you on your way as soon as possible.&#8221;
United Airlines, which is one of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/20-biggest-airlines-in-the-world-southwest-american-delta-2022-8">largest</a> airlines in the world, had estimated that this Labor Day weekend would be the busiest in its history with approximately 2.8 million people traveling.
This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.

UPDATE: United Airlines Resumes Flights Nationwide After Computer Issue

One Chicago household had the surprise of a lifetime this week when a piece of safety equipment from a commercial airliner fell from the sky into their backyard. 
On Monday afternoon, an emergency evacuation slide <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/17/emergency-slide-from-plane-reaching-chicagos-ohare-airport-lands-in-backyard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fell</a> from a United Airlines flight arriving at Chicago O’Hare International Airport <a href="https://www.today.com/news/plane-emergency-evacuation-slide-falls-out-aircraft-flight-rcna94822" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from</a> Zurich, Switzerland. No one was injured in the incident, but the house sustained some damage. 
“I’m stunned a little bit. I’m just glad that everybody is safe and okay,” homeowner Patrick Devitt <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/emergency-slide-falls-from-plane-ohare-airport-chicago-news/13515495/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Just seeing that in my backyard, like wow. This really happened. It fell off of an airplane and landed in our backyard.”
The house is not far from the airport, and Devitt’s son and father-in-law were inside when the slide hit the home, which made a sound they described as a “boom.” The house’s roof, window screen, and downspout were damaged from the impact.  
After the plane landed at O’Hare, maintenance workers discovered that the slide was missing. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Boeing 767 was carrying 155 passengers and 10 crew members, but no one on the plane knew what had happened, according to Today Show. 
“When it’s all stretched out, like it’s a little jumbled up I’m sure in the picture from when we dragged it out, it’s larger than a small car,” Devitt told WLS-TV. “It’s a very, very big piece of equipment.”
After the slide had scraped the roof and landed in the backyard, the men called the police, and within a half hour, the FAA was at the home to investigate. On the same day, the men told the outlet that two United Airlines representatives retrieved the slide. 
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“We immediately contacted the FAA and are working with our team to better understand the circumstances around this matter,” a statement from United said. 
It’s still unclear how exactly the slide fell from the plane, but the FAA said it would continue investigating the matter. DePaul University professor Joe Schwieterman told WLS that the incident will prompt “major investigations.” 
“This was not a bird strike or something that&#8217;s routine. It&#8217;s a rare instance that could have caused fatalities on the ground or even affected the stability of that airplane when it was landing,&#8221; he said. 
However, this is not the first time an incident like this has happened. In 2019, an emergency slide fell from a Delta Air Lines plane in the yard of a Boston home, injuring no one, ABC 7 reported. Three years earlier, a similar incident occurred in Mesa, Arizona, in another case where no injuries were reported.

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Toronto Blue Jays <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/baseball">pitcher</a> Anthony Bass set off a huge debate online after he complained that his pregnant wife was forced to clean up her children’s mess following a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-airlines">United Airlines</a> flight.
“The flight attendant [United] just made my 22 week pregnant wife traveling with a 5 year old and 2 year old get on her hands and knees to pick up the popcorn mess by my youngest daughter. Are you kidding me?!?!” the 35-year-old pro ball player shared with followers on Monday. 
He also posted an image showing his kids sitting on the plane with popcorn spilled underneath their seats.
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The flight attendant <a href="https://twitter.com/united?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@united</a> just made my 22 week pregnant wife traveling with a 5 year old and 2 year old get on her hands and knees to pick up the popcorn mess by my youngest daughter. Are you kidding me?!?! <a href="https://t.co/vLYyLyJC54">pic.twitter.com/vLYyLyJC54</a>
&mdash; Anthony Bass (@AnthonyBass52) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnthonyBass52/status/1647632911720390664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Bass’s tweet has since gone viral, racking up 55 million views.
Commenters were divided on who was in the right, with most commenters arguing that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parents">parents</a> should clean up after their children on a plane. A few followers insisted that airlines hired cleaning crews for this exact situation.
“Genuinely curious who should clean up the mess your 2 year old made? As a parent of three kids I am the one responsible for them,” one social media user <a href="https://twitter.com/pwentink22/status/1647634146309681152">tweeted</a>, which prompted Bass to reply, “The cleaning crew they hire!”
“Won&#8217;t lie, the fact that the flight attendant had the guts to make the passenger clean up their own MESS kinda makes me wanna fly United more,” another account <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveOnSpeed/status/1648007248956760075">wrote</a>.
“Just because you’re rich doesn’t mean everyone is your servant. I hope this helps,” another reply said.
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“This is the most pretentious, arrogant, self-absorbed tweet of all time,” another user posted. “How dare parents have to clean up after their children’s mess? Good God, the more athletes tweet, the more I really don’t want to watch professional sports anymore.”
The father of two later posted an update. “United Airlines is taking care of matters with the flight attendant internally,” he wrote. “Thank you everyone for the support,” Bass added, even though the majority of the commenters disagreed with his outrage.
Bass is married to the sister of country pop singer Jessie James Decker, who also shared on social media about the incident. 
&#8220;My sister [Sydney] just texted me from her flight on [United],&#8221; Decker wrote on Instagram. &#8220;As you know, she is five months pregnant, high risk, and also traveling alone with her two small children.&#8221;
She continued, &#8220;Blaire accidentally spilled some popcorn in the aisle and the flight attendant came up to Sydney with a trash bag, and a wet wipe, telling her the captain wants Syd to clean up every drop.&#8221;
Decker said her &#8220;poor sister is on her hands and knees, crying in the aisle completely humiliated and exhausted with her children while everyone else watched. Way to go united.&#8221;

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A flight attendant waiting to take off on the fateful day of 9/11/2001 <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11879601/Air-steward-believes-plane-intended-FIFTH-9-11-terrorist-jet.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believes</a> her aircraft was intended to be used as the fifth plane in the infamous terrorist attack which murdered nearly 3,000 Americans — and the captain of the plane thinks she may be correct.
The captain and flight attendant recalled their memories of the terrible day in the TMZ documentary “TMZ Investigates 9/11: the Fifth Plane.”
Flight attendant Sandy Thorngren, who was aboard United 23 waiting on JFK airport’s tarmac on the morning of 9/11, said she saw six suspicious people on the plane, which was supposed to take off at 9:00 a.m. but returned to the gate after the second tower of the World Trade Center was struck at 9:03 a.m.
“I definitely think Flight 23 was the fifth plane,” Thorngren stated.
“The day after, we were all called by the FBI telling us that they needed to interview us regarding the incident of what had happened on the airplane,” Thorngren continued. “They came to our hotel rooms and individually talked to us. I did tell them that I felt there were some suspicious people on the airplane. And I pointed out exactly the four people in first class and two gentlemen in business. And the one that had the t-shirt on that had uncontrollable perspiration.”
“They wanted to take us to show us a line-up of people at the Port Authority,” she recalled. ­“They got us all in a van, a windowless van. I felt like we were getting snuck into this van. And driven over to the Port Authority offices where everyone — I mean, gates were locked and guarded with armored military that had machine guns, or whatever rifles they were using. We were escorted to this one room with those double windows where you could see in but not out. And they asked us if we could identify any of the people that were behind that window.”
The captain of United 23, Tom Mannello, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp7QSh64Bz4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contended</a> there was a “good chance” someone was attempting to use his plane as part of the 9/11 attack. “The chief pilot reported to me that they had found two box cutters in the seat pockets in first class in the plane next to it, which had a tail number one digit off,” he stated.
“If somebody was on the ground cooperating with them, they just simply made a mistake and put the box cutters on the wrong airplane,” he continued. “You have people that clean the airplane, people that load food on the airplane, that have access to the airplane.”
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“If somebody was in cooperation with the group they could have been put there,” he surmised. “It wouldn&#8217;t be the hardest thing in the world to get on an airplane like that. It&#8217;s the one thing that makes me think that there&#8217;s a good chance that somebody was plotting to try to use our airplane as a weapon of mass destruction.”
Four planes that were hijacked by Islamic terrorists attacked the United States on 9/11. American Airlines Flight 11 struck its target first after taking off from Boston toward Los Angeles. Five hijackers commandeered the plane to launch it toward the World Trade Center&#8217;s North Tower, which it hit at 8:46 a.m.
The second plane to strike its target was United Airlines Flight 175, which also took off from Boston with five hijackers aboard and was originally headed to Los Angeles; it crashed into the WTC&#8217;s South Tower at 9:03 a.m.
American Airlines Flight 77 took off from Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., toward Los Angeles with five hijackers aboard; it struck the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m.
The fourth plane, United Flight 93 took off from Newark, New Jersey, headed for San Francisco, with four hijackers onboard, allegedly headed for the White House or the Capitol, but heroic passengers fought the hijackers and the plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in an empty field.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-airlines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Airlines</a> launched an effort on Tuesday to find more <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">environmentally</a> sustainable alternatives to jet <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/oil-and-gas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fuel</a>.
The company announced that partners such as JPMorgan Chase, Air Canada, Boeing, GE, and Honeywell are investing more than $100 million into United Airlines Ventures Sustainable Flight Fund, which is described as a “first-of-its-kind investment vehicle designed to support start-ups focused on decarbonizing air travel by accelerating the research, production and technologies associated with sustainable aviation fuel.” The substance would be an alternative to conventional jet fuel capable of reducing carbon emissions.
&#8220;Solving climate change is doable but it requires hard work and real leadership,&#8221; United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said in a <a href="https://united.mediaroom.com/2023-02-21-United-Rallies-Businesses-and-Consumers-with-New,-First-of-its-Kind-100-Million-Sustainable-Flight-Fund" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. &#8220;This fund is unique. It&#8217;s not about offsets or things that are just greenwashing. Instead, we&#8217;re creating a system that drives investment to build a new industry around sustainable aviation fuel, essentially from scratch. That&#8217;s the only way we can actually decarbonize aviation.&#8221;
Aircraft are responsible for some 3% of total carbon emissions in the United States, according to <a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/documents/us-ghg-inventory-2020-main-text.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Environmental Protection Agency. Sustainable aviation fuel, also known as SAF, can be “made from renewable biomass and waste resources” and has “the potential to deliver the performance of petroleum-based jet fuel but with a fraction of its carbon footprint,” according to a <a href="https://www.energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/sustainable-aviation-fuels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Department of Energy.
United Airlines <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-airline-places-massive-bet-on-electric-planes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> efforts to decarbonize air travel last year by preordering 400 electric aircraft from Eve Air Mobility with a $15 million investment into the venture. United Airlines likewise committed to spending $10 million on 100 electric planes from Archer Aviation.
“United has made early investments in several cutting-edge technologies at all levels of the supply chain, staking out our position as a leader in aviation sustainability and innovation,” United Airlines Ventures President Michael Leskinen remarked last year. “We believe our suite of clean energy technologies will revolutionize air travel as we know it and serve as the catalyst for the aviation industry to move toward a sustainable future.”
United Airlines immediately faced questions on the prudence of spending resources on finding an alternative to jet fuel. CNBC anchor Joe Kernen noted during an <a href="https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1628026345564303364" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Kirby that more than $3.8 trillion has been spent over the past decade on renewable energy even as fossil fuels declined from 82% to 81% of overall energy consumption. “This seems like you’re putting your toe in the water to say ‘We are trying to do something,’ but realistically speaking, when do you see any real replacement for the jet fuel you use right now?” Kernen asked. “What is a realistic number without just feeling good about doing this?”
Kirby responded by admitting that the green energy transition will not “happen overnight” but said sustainable aviation fuel must first reach commercial scale. “We’ve got to start making the investment today,” he said. “I am certain that’s the only way to eventually get to an answer for SAF and a hard-to-decarbonize industry like aviation.”
The sustainability investments and subsequent criticism of United Airlines comes amid backlash against the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as ESG, under which companies vow to seek outcomes such as emissions reduction or higher racial diversity in a manner that distracts from profit maximization.
United Airlines has vowed to completely eliminate its greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. “We must reach across industries to develop coordinated efforts to accomplish what must be our collective goal of carbon neutrality,” Kirby said on a <a href="https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/company/global-citizenship/environment.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">webpage</a> about the company’s environmental commitments.

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