where irrelevant biographical questions were a imposed on aspiring air traffic controller controllers sadly this is far from the only example of standards declining in the tes. e iste never debate on any of this, it just happens. if it s happening and scientific fields, you wouldn t think it would but it is. in the pages of the city journal heather mcdonald has chronicled how schools and other institutions are cutting requirements i an effort to be more diverse whatever that mean means. she also wrote the upcoming book the diversity delusion and she joins us tight. you for comin on. we were stunned because it s insane and dangerous but youan wouldn t think that same imp would find its way into the hard sciences come into medicine or research sciences, you say it i is. there is not a single
three years got more points and licensed pilot scott. in other words, the faa actively searched for unqualified air traffic controllers. that is insane and they knew it was insane when they did it but they did it anyway. today we obtained new information, and internal email written by an executive at the firm that devised the questionnaire. in that email the executive admits that the test he devised has nothing to do with finding the best air traffic controllers. if you want good air traffic controllers, find people with experience, that was his advice. the faa ignored this and used the biographical screen anyway. they didn t care about finding the best air traffic controller controllers. compared to diversity, your safety meant nothing to them. we reached out to greg martin, the faa s top spokesman. we wanted to know why the faa would ever use totally irrelevant criteria such as what people look like in order to hire for a job as vital as air traffic control. we couldn t get an answer
you flew out of jfk to london. i did. it didn t happen to you but it happened to three different planes reported. potentially more. when you look at the rules of the road here when it comes to drones they have to be five miles clear of any airport, they can t fly above 400 feet. why does this keep happening? it s the technology is such that people can afford these toys that go to incredible altitudes. there are some that go all the way up to 13,000 feet. for the price of $3500 for the toys. why it s happening it just sounds like complete irresponsibility to me. take me into the cockpit. if it were to happen to your commercial airliner, i mean, what happened with the two incidents over the weekend the drones were within 100 feet. it s unclear how close the one was last night. what do you do? you can t exactly veer off course. you have to talk to air traffic