Certainly not ideal, but if you have to crash, this is about as good as it gets. Kudos to the pilot on a textbook ditch. #avgeek
The aircraft is a Grumman Avenger, a WW2 torpedo bomber, which was taking part in a Florida air show - after a painstaking 18 year long restoration 😢 Here’s hoping they can get it back in the air after this mishap! clickorlando.com/news/local/202…
The furore over the United Airlines announcement that they are trying to increase the size of their pilot talent pool by opening up opportunities to under-represented groups is both totally predictable and exactly why being a woman in aviation is SO DAMN TIRING. 1/🧵
The main complaint is that “hiring for diversity” will deliver incompetent pilots.
Guess what everyone? Being a white male doesn’t make someone a superior pilot. Trust me, I know!
You know what does? Training. And that’s exactly what United is proposing to do. 2/
The truth is that for decades the only people who could access aviation training in large numbers have been white men. That’s why they dominate the industry. Not because they are somehow innately better pilots. 3/