Diversity is Our Strength
(unless you are a frequent flyer)
  

If you ever find yourself in the terminal situation as a passenger on an airliner on a crash trajectory, don’t waste your time saying an Act of Contrition, or making spiritual amends to any your may have harmed, or by screaming incomprehensibly, or by trying to make a last cell phone call to your loved ones.
Instead, when you look out the window knowing your body is about to create a Jackson Pollock-like impression of itself when it rudely makes contact with the ground, quietly thank the U.S. government and repeat the mantra-like, ‘Diversity is our strength.” (“La diversidad nuestra fuerza”)
 

Airline mechanics who can’t read English
There are more than 236 FAA-certified aircraft repair stations in Texas with…hundreds of the mechanics working in those shops do not speak English and are unable to read repair manuals for today’s sophisticated aircraft.
 …Now there is evidence of repair facilities hiring low-wage mechanics who can’t read English….Twenty-one people were killed when U.S. Airways Express Flight 5481 crashed in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2003. The plane went wildly out of control on takeoff. One reason for the crash, investigators found, was that mechanics incorrectly connected the cables to some of the plane’s control surfaces in the repair shop. The FAA was cited for improper oversight of the repair process. .. There are more than 236 FAA-certified aircraft repair stations in Texas, according to the FAA’s Web site. News 8 has learned that hundreds of the mechanics working in those shops do not speak English and are unable to read repair manuals for today’s sophisticated aircraft.
 

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