Fact Check: Yes, Obama and Biden Had FAA Hire People with Intellectual, Psychiatric, Severe Physical

[rangerrebew]

Fact Check: Yes, Obama and Biden Had FAA Hire People with Intellectual, Psychiatric, Severe Physical Disabilities
Story by C. Douglas Golden • 2h
 
As someone whose father was in the aeronautics business -- and who got passed on plenty of his wisdom from a young age -- there are two things that I know, even as an unskilled observer, about airplane crashes.

The first is that there's never one single thing to blame for disasters, especially when it involves airliners; so much redundancy is built into the system that numerous things have to go wrong, either simultaneously or over a period of time, for a crash to happen. The second is that nobody -- nobody -- knows what caused the disaster in the first 24 hours. (Anyone old enough to remember how wrong we were about TWA Flight 800 being bombed or hit by a missile?)
 
The collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army helicopter, which claimed 67 lives, may have reached a new low in this department. As Dan McLaughlin pointed out at National Review, people are already blaming Trump administration Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy for the disaster just outside of Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C.

Duffy took office the morning before the collision, which more or less rules him out as a factor. Not that this stopped anybody on social media, of course:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-check-yes-obama-and-biden-had-faa-hire-people-with-intellectual-psychiatric-severe-physical-disabilities/ar-AA1yb6Ar?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=c4db64f16fae4640f4d9efd9ca0b8928&ei=15

[The_Reader_David]

As an oblique aside, among psychiatric disabilities, there is one (and only one) that might make sense to include in a target pool for air-traffic controllers:  mild autism of the sort that used to be called Asperger syndrome.  A person who has this disorder and is enthusiastic about applying for an air traffic controller job, if hired, would be completely focused on the job to the point that their focus might be an annoyance to other air traffic controllers, but they'd be a damned good air traffic controller.

Other that, keep people with psychiatric disorders out of the control room.

[Smokin Joe]

The second is that nobody -- nobody -- knows what caused the disaster in the first 24 hours. (Anyone old enough to remember how wrong we were about TWA Flight 800 being bombed or hit by a missile?)

Considering the irregularities in that 'investigation', including NOT interviewing the 140+ witnesses who said they saw something go up before the plane came down, and that the NTSB was shut out of the investigation (their normal purview), not to mention the political pressure for the incident to NOT be the result of terrorism, I don't "remember how wrong we were", because to me the issue is still open. 
He plane would not have been available for bomb sniffing dog training just minutes before boarding, so where did the PETN residues come from, why were tags shifted to indicate fragments of the plane came from different debris field sectors, etc. etc. etc.?

[DB]

Considering the irregularities in that 'investigation', including NOT interviewing the 140+ witnesses who said they saw something go up before the plane came down, and that the NTSB was shut out of the investigation (their normal purview), not to mention the political pressure for the incident to NOT be the result of terrorism, I don't "remember how wrong we were", because to me the issue is still open. 
He plane would not have been available for bomb sniffing dog training just minutes before boarding, so where did the PETN residues come from, why were tags shifted to indicate fragments of the plane came from different debris field sectors, etc. etc. etc.?

Yes, I pretty much stopped reading there.