FAA embroiled in lawsuit alleging it turned
away 1,000 applicants based on race —
that contributed to staffing woes
Posted By: mc squared, 1/31/2025 10:27:36 AM
The Federal Aviation Administration was hit with a class action lawsuit last year alleging it had denied 1,000 would-be air traffic controllers jobs because of diversity hiring targets — as it was revealed staffing levels were “not normal” at the time of this week’s deadly midair collision. Complaints about the FAA’s hiring policies resurfaced after the American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, killing 67 people in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter century. Details of the litigation reemerged, too, as Andrew Brigida — the lead plaintiff in the suit — suggested the federal aviation agency’s obsession with diversity hiring
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Remember when Social Security was the 'Third Rail' of politics? Now it's diversity hiring.