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FAA’s Diversity Policies Under Fire After Deadly Air Collision
There seem to be some major misconceptions on how DEI hiring for ATC positions work. All ot does is help people get an initial foot in the door. After that they are subject to the same rigorous training that non DEI hires would be. No one goes straight from passing the training to a position in the tower at Regan International. The video below has the ATC and aircraft communications overlayed in real time on the flight track data. It appears to show that ATC did their job but for some reason the helicopter climbed 200 feet a moment before the crash. -
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Road Safety in Thailand – a summary of Perceptions and Reality
I totally agree that for years Thailand's gathering of stats has been unreliable and incomplete. THe main problem is how the general public iand th media interpret what is available - the WHO is actually quite good at drawing reasonable conclusions from poor stats from countries with similar problems all over the world. you'd expect stats to cover such things as Deaths per 1 million inhabitants Serious Injuries per 1 million inhabitants Minor injuries per 1 million inhabitants Deaths per 10 billion vehicle-KM Deaths per 100,000 registered vehicles Registered vehicles per 1000 inhabitants They also fail to divide injuries into the 3 internationally recognised categories minor, serious and fatal. It is impossible to get a good idea of te number of collisions. -
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Road Safety in Thailand – a summary of Perceptions and Reality
There are a lot of things that go into making things safer here, and you touched on them, as have others. I was a driver, professionally, for many years with many jobs in a few locations. Professional drivers put in a lot more miles than the average driver and see a lot more accidents and unsafe driving habits. What has been listed about Thai drivers is correct, both by you and others in many other posts besides this one. Lack of education, inability to use mirrors and not looking behind and to the sides, speeding, drunk driving, poor testing, all adds up to incompetency. Not all drivers here are incompetent, as I've seen some , daily, that are safe and aware, but the large majority falls into one or another unsafe practices, which I and many others have also seen, daily. I drove in the US for 62 years, daily, and many miles, and I still have never seen such blatant bad driving as I have here. I also have seen others doing the same types of inadequate driving in the US, but again, not like here. Bad enforcement of rules already on the books here, as rules here are like rules in the US, is one reason so many die here and have accidents, so it's part of the problem. If you stop more people who are blatantly breaking the road laws, and fine them, they might think twice before doing it again. That's might, as there are a lot of speeders and drunk drivers in the US. Mandatory helmet laws, which are strictly enforced, will undoubtedly save many lives, as you can break every bone in your body and live, but if you hit your head hard, you're usually gone. What there isn't more of is people who don't use their mirrors and drive recklessly on motorbikes. That's something SE Asia and India have much more of. Also, cutting people off while driving a scooter is one main way accidents happen. You can't compete with a car or truck. You always lose. Staying on the shoulder would stop many accidents, unless you're in a motorcycle, and stay in the lane like a car does without weaving.There are poor roads throughout the world, like here, so road maintenance would help because potholes and uneven roads are dangerous for motorbikes. Having more than one person on a scooter is illegal, so that's also on the driver. Pulling them over every time and ticketing them is on the police. It isn't their culture to drive bad. It's a lack of training, skill and care of themselves and others. Yes, if the police did their jobs, more would be saved, because taking a persons money is a good teacher, but it doesn't always work, so it's still on the driver to drive safely. -
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Dem leader H.Jeffries' call to fight Trump agenda ‘in the streets’ .
If they are so hilarious why do you continue your gnashing and bashing? Have you have forgotten how to laugh? Why, are you not amused? -
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Israeli Man Arrested in Pattaya for Using Counterfeit US Dollars
Some South Africans are. -
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Dem leader H.Jeffries' call to fight Trump agenda ‘in the streets’ .
Yeah, with maga cruelty is the point.
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