I saw this article about the FAA hiring people with severe intellectual capabilities in my newsfeed and it came from Fox news. So as always I try to go to the source material.

Diversity and Inclusion | Federal Aviation Administration

You know the wheels are coming off the wagon when you read this:

Diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond…….Because diversity is so critical, FAA actively supports and engages in a variety of associations, programs, coalitions and initiatives to support and accommodate employees from diverse communities and backgrounds. Our people are our strength, and we take great care in investing in and valuing them as such.

Never mind excellence and competence. Oh well, but I read on. There’s more….

Direct Hiring Authorities

The FAA utilizes Direct Hiring Authorities to provide opportunities to Veterans, individuals with disabilities or other groups that may be underrepresented or facing hardships in the current workforce. These individuals may be hired in an expedited manner upon meeting all relevant requirements. The following Direct Hiring Authorities are utilized by the FAA…

People with Severe Disabilities

For individuals with severe disabilities such as missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability.

I have added the bold emphasis. Let me put this in engineering terms – the FAA is expediting the hiring of Stupid and Mad people.

Thankfully the FAA allow us to deep dive how they’re going to make the best use of their dynamic new staff members:

People with Disabilities

Individuals with targeted or “severe” disabilities are the most under-represented segment of the Federal workforce. The People with Disabilities Program (PWD) ensures that people with disabilities have equal Federal employment opportunities. The FAA actively recruits, hires, promotes, retains, develops and advances people with disabilities.

The FAA meets the goals of the PWD Program through a variety of practices:

Targeted Disabilities

Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring. They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.

On-the-Spot Hiring

A non-competitive hiring method for filling vacancies with Veterans and/or individuals with disabilities. Managers can choose to fill an open position through the On-the-Spot hiring process given they provide the required documentation for doing so.

Expedited, on the spot, non-competitive hiring, promotion, development, advancement of Stupid and Mad people.

Just imagine – the FAA managed the thorough ruination of part 23 before this push to hire people who self identity as stupid and/or mad. What extrapolated brave new world of innovation will we be entertained with now?

Diversity means an unexpected plume of black smoke, a large number of personal tragedies and a carved granite memorial marker in some field in upstate New York that the poor bloody farmer has to plough around for the next 40 years.

It is part of the fairness based approach of adopting a representative range of safety results as we strive to generate more outcome diversity. Sometimes the aircraft lands on the runway, sometimes you get equity.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Intelligence is stupidity. Sanity is Madness.