Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[Guest]

https://www.spiritaero.com/company/dive ... /overview/

Watch the DEI video. It's pretty standard in Western industries now. That's why I moved back to Asia.

[Guest]

But he had to do it by dumbing himself down to the appropriate level.

I suppose if he had worked for Boeing and was aware that a plane had the potential to crash he would have kept his mouth shut and let it crash as long as it didn't have the potential to derail his career prospects.

Exactly. America is destroying itself.

I worked in heavy industry and was forced to work with a totally unqualified and low IQ black employee who used the race card to force out three competent white co-workers. I quit and the department imploded immediately. The (well known) mega corporation was afraid to fire him, so they let him hang out in the office for another year and collect his full pay and benefits until his contract ran out. He was well paid and did nothing for the entire three years he was there except torment white co-workers and destroy the entire department. He spent the last year sexually harassing women in the building (and never being punished for it) and making bizarre You Tube videos that were supposedly for training new hires. The videos were never used nor even viewed. The videos were still there a few years ago and each video had less than 5 views. I guess they are still there 12 years later.

I couldn't believe that the managers did nothing.

NOT EVEN plane crashes will put an end to DEI.

I agree with the horse and carriage comment. I like carriages. I see a lot of potentially in that industry in the future.

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https://www.spiritaero.com/company/dive ... /overview/

Watch the DEI video. It's pretty standard in Western industries now. That's why I moved back to Asia.

The red Chinese aviation will benefit from this, and I don't trust Chinese QC at all. Few countries are holding the line on QC anymore.

[Guest]

https://www.spiritaero.com/company/dive ... /overview/

Watch the DEI video. It's pretty standard in Western industries now. That's why I moved back to Asia.

The red Chinese aviation will benefit from this, and I don't trust Chinese QC at all. Few countries are holding the line on QC anymore.

Watch the Spirit Aerosystems DEI video here. This is a company that is gung-ho about this stuff. You hear the same blatherskite there that you hear in all these kinds of corporate presentations: that diversity is our strength, that we couldn’t do what we do without diversity, that we cannot be competitive without diversity, and so forth. It’s all harmless until planes start falling out of the air. That video is so full of canting corporate bullshit it actually makes you stupider by the minute.

[TIUG]

The competency crisis hit another milestone. A Boeing door being blown off mid-flight is just one more sign of it. I am waiting for a diversity hire cockpit crew to crash an airliner and see of anyone has the guts to point out the obvious. I doubt the elites will and people will just lose faith in air travel and stop flying. That will be a good thing. I enjoy riding in a horse drawn carriage.

I was about to recommend maritime travel, but, alas, DEI...

https://www.globalmaritimeforum.org/new ... e-industry

So I guess buying a small fiberglass sailboat and sailing to Europe alone is now the best option, Capt. Obvious.

We are screwed.


Hurry up, World War 3...

[TUG]

The competency crisis hit another milestone. A Boeing door being blown off mid-flight is just one more sign of it. I am waiting for a diversity hire cockpit crew to crash an airliner and see of anyone has the guts to point out the obvious. I doubt the elites will and people will just lose faith in air travel and stop flying. That will be a good thing. I enjoy riding in a horse drawn carriage.

I was about to recommend maritime travel, but, alas, DEI...

https://www.globalmaritimeforum.org/new ... e-industry

So I guess buying a small fiberglass sailboat and sailing to Europe alone is now the best option, Capt. Obvious.

We are screwed.


Hurry up, World War 3...

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are gaining momentum in the maritime industry

[Higgenbotham]

A Reporter at Large
The Tower Builder

By John Seabrook

November 11, 2001

Leslie E. Robertson is the engineer who, with his then partner, John Skilling, was mainly responsible for the structure of the Twin Towers.

On entering the room, Robertson walked over and looked out the window at the smoking pile where his structures had once been. He seemed to do this casually, but as we stood there I noticed that he was trembling slightly. He remained before the window for almost a minute, with the air of a man forcing himself to confront something he didn’t want to confront, nodding as though to say, O.K., this is reality, I know it—but looking bewildered at the same time. When we sat down, he said, “The World Trade Center was a team effort, but the collapse of the World Trade Center is my responsibility, and that’s the way I feel about it.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001 ... er-attacks

This post is about Dark Age processes and not particular individuals, only using this as an example that seems more common than not, but perhaps an extreme. I read Robertson was a high school dropout who decided to take a road trip in his late 20s, landing in Seattle when he ran out of money, then starting work in the structural engineering field when he was around 30. He did have an engineering degree from Berkeley by then.

Let's say that sometime in the early 1990s two candidates applied to Robertson's firm. The first has really done his homework. He is an MIT graduate with a stellar academic record and says in his cover letter that he has been studying the construction of skyscrapers with particular emphasis on failure modes, such as plane crashes and resulting fires as well as other modes of failure. The cover letter notes that, contrary to an article published recently, which is attached, that his calculations, also attached, show that the Twin Towers are susceptible to failure. The second candidate has also done her homework. She is an attractive Asian female, also a recent civil engineering graduate. She is aware that Robertson is recently divorced. She includes a photo with her resume showing a cute face and stellar cleavage.

I think we all know who is going to get the job. Down we go.

https://www.ctbuh.org/people-profile/sawteen-see

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One for the hovel.

When DEI Becomes DIE: FAA Now Hiring People With "Severe Intellectual And Psychiatric Disability"

Americans were stunned on Sunday afternoon after Fox News reported the Federal Aviation Administration, overseen by Mayor Secretary Pete Buttigieg's Transporation Department, rolled out a new "Diversity and Inclusion" program to hire people with "severe intellectual disability" and "psychiatric disability" (among various other disabilities), just days after the latest mid-air near-disaster involving a Boeing 737 Max heightened the public's attention to the potentially deadly impact of woke Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies in the skies.

"Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring," the FAA's website read.

"They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism."

The FAA's "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) hiring plan claims that "diversity is integral to achieving FAA's mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond."

When satire becomes a reality...

We hope that the purpose behind the FAA's DEI hiring spree isn't aimed at addressing the air traffic controller shortage. This won't end well.

This development comes after a Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner's door ripped off the plane while flying over Portland earlier this month. X users have said Boeing prioritizes DEI initiatives, which could jeopardize safety.

"Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?" Elon Musk wrote on X last week. "That is actually happening."

Welcome to the new society of the clown world (thank the Marxists in the White House pushing the woke agenda - while mega-corporations do the same).

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/faa ... -troubling

[Ken]

We will have to lost at least half a dozen airliners before anything is done. (No doubt every single crash will be blamed on white people.)

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Boeing jet makes emergency landing after crack found in cockpit window
Passenger plane with 65 people on board forced to turn back to Sapporo, Japan, after safety scare for airliner in US earlier this month

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ ... rd-journey

A Boeing passenger jet was forced to make an emergency landing after a crack in its cockpit window was discovered mid-flight.

All Nippon Airways (ANA) domestic flight in Japan, which had 65 people on board, was forced to turn back to its departure airport in Sapporo on Saturday.

It was the second safety incident to rock Boeing in as many weeks and will further deepen concerns about the reliability of its aircraft. No less than $14 billion (£11 billion) was wiped off the company’s stock market valuation in a single day after a door was torn off one of its planes being operated by Alaska Airlines on Jan 5.

More than 170 of the 737 Max 9 models have since been grounded in the United States.

The jet was about to cross the Tsugaru Strait when it turned back to Sapporo, where it landed at 12.10pm local time (3.10pm GMT).

“The crack was not something that affected the flight’s control or pressurisation,” said a spokesman for ANA, Japan’s largest airline.

They added that the crack was on the outermost of four layers of glass in the cockpit window. There were no injuries or deaths and alternative flights were arranged for passengers.

It came as Boeing said on Monday that it would allow buyers of its 737 Max models into its factories to review procedures while also conducting additional quality inspections itself following the mid-flight blowout ten days ago.

The planemaker will also deploy a team to supplier Spirit AeroSystems - which makes and installs the plug door involved in the Alaska Airlines incident - to check and approve its work on the components, the head of Boeing’s commercial airplanes division said.

Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that all Boeing 737 Max 9 planes in the US would be grounded indefinitely “for the safety of American travellers”.

“Our only concern is the safety of American travellers and the Boeing 737-9 MAX will not return to the skies until we are entirely satisfied it is safe,” FAA administrator Mike Whitaker said.

It added that it would also tighten its oversight of Boeing itself.

The company’s 737 Max jet was previously grounded for 20 months after two deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia in 2018 and 2019 respectively left nearly 400 people dead.