I just find it pretty distasteful that a service member has just passed away and people including the president, her boss, has implied it’s because of DEI - without investigation of what actually happened.
The two things might be linked, they might not be, but a few hours after the incident, without facts, is just playing politics.
Keep in mind that may be aimed at FAA hiring practices for ATCs and not the pilot of the Blackhawk. The FAA practices are well documented in memos and are extreme, to say the least.
One of the holes in the swiss cheese, here, is the failure of the ATC to notify PAT25 that there were multiple inbounds on that track, and the other is PAT25 being out of their assigned airspace (too high, too far west). An understandable error is that while the Blackhawk crew thought they had the 'right' plane in visual, they did not, but instead saw other traffic and assumed that was the only inbound aircraft.
In theory, that was preventable. It may not be a result of anything but human error, in both places. Whether DEI factors in remains to be seen, and I am waiting on all the facts before I make any judgements.
If the assessment of what led to the collision is not accurate and complete, the likelihood of it happening again is increased.
