FAA hid a near-crash of a packed jetliner for two months. Gosh, wonder why?

If you're like most people you have no idea how little the Mainstream Media knows about aviation.  So since "reporters" and editors don't know jack about aviation, they'll print any bullshit they're fed, no matter how absurd.

A bit of background: My dad was an instructor at the Air Force's test pilot school.  He taught me to fly at age ten, and I soloed at 16--the youngest legal age.  My first job after Air Force pilot training was flying heavy jets.  So I can easily spot bullshit in stories from the Mainstream Media about aviation accidents or near-accidents.  In this case...

Last December a United Airlines 777, climbing just one minute after takeoff from Maui, entered the clouds, then plunged steeply--from 2,200 feet to 775 feet above the ocean.  

The 777 is a big, heavy plane--over 660,000 pounds at takeoff, depending on the model--and when it gets its nose pointed down it takes time to pull out.  So this plane very nearly crashed.

I've done the math: If the captain hadn't noticed the nose-down attitude for ten more seconds the plane would have hit the ocean, likely killing everyone on-board.

So an obvious question is, what caused the plane to plunge so steeply?

The NTSB first said it wouldn't even investigate, but now has reversed that call.  That's a huge red flag: When a big airliner comes this close to crashing, rational adults should demand to know why it happened.  The fact that the NTSB initially said it wasn't interested suggests the fix is in.

Of course you have no idea what I'm talking about, and that's totally reasonable:  A "fix" implies a conspiracy, and your Media has convinced you conspiracies can't exist.  (Well, except for Trump supposedly colluding with Russia back in 2016 to steal the election from darling Hilliary.  That conspiracy was, like, totally real, eh?)

The FAA--ruled by the totally incompetent, totally political Pete Buttigeig--said it investigated, but hasn't made the results public. That's another huge red flag.  The totally-political FAA told CNN it couldn't disclose the findings of its investigation "because the confidentiality of this program is critical to its success.”  And that classic "bureau-babble" (a.k.a. "gobble-speak") is another red flag.

The NTSB said “a preliminary report is expected in 2-3 weeks.”  You can be sure that if that report is released (which I do NOT expect to happen), it will get zero publicity in the Media--because giving it publicity would hurt the Democrat Party.

So getting back to the incident:  If a plane has a mechanical problem right after takeoff, the pilot declares an emergency, turns around and lands as soon as possible.  But the pilots on this flight didn't turn around--proving unequivocally that they knew the cause of their plunge was NOT a problem with the airplane.  They continued to San Francisco as if everything was totally normal.

United acted as if nothing unusual had happened--possibly because they didn't know.  We know that because when the flight reached SFO United didn't take  the plane out of service and exhaustively test it.  Instead it got a totally routine turnaround and took off on its next leg to Ohio or somewhere similar.  So either United didn't know anything unusual had happened, or if they did, they knew the problem was NOT something wrong with the plane.

Starting to figure it out yet?  Sure you are.

So here ya go:  Two months after the near-crash, when word of the near-crash got out after a source published the radar plot on the internet and United couldn't deny the truth, spokeswhores said the company had conducted an investigation "with the FAA and the pilots union" “that ultimately resulted in the pilots receiving additional training.”

Wait...what?  What does the pilots' union have to do with this?  And "additional training"?  WTF?

At this point CNN threw in the totally-ass-kissing line "The pilots have a combined 25,000 hours of flight time."

Wow, that's SUCH a relief, eh?  Cuz after an airplane crashes we're all totally relieved when we learn that the pilot had thousands of hours of flying time, eh?  Makes the families of the dead feel so much better, eh?

Now here's what almost certainly happened:  We normally learn our orientation in space from tiny sensors in our inner ear.  But when an airplane enters the clouds, obviously all visual references to the plane's "orientation" in space are lost (as is also true over the ocean at night).  

With no external cues, the inner-ear sensors often make a pilot think he's level when he's anything but.  As a result, you can think you're straight and level when you're actually way nose-down.  Unless you've experienced it you can't believe how totally convincing it is.

The only way to stay alive is to ignore your ears and instead rely on a display on the instrument panel that shows what the plane is really doing.  Competent pilots know to rely on that display.  Novice pilots--or incompetent ones--fly based on what their inner ear is telling 'em--even when reality is totally different.  And as you would expect, the results can be disastrous.

Now: Two years ago the biden/harris/Democrat regime ordered the FAA to force all airlines to hire lots more minority pilots, to achieve the regime's faaabulous goal of putting minorities in top positions regardless of competence.  Diversity and inclusion above all.  Instead of refusing to comply, "wokie" airline execs kissed Democrat ass and did as ordered, despite recognizing the risks.

A senior United pilot told Tucker Carlson that United--like all airlines--is now hiring wannabee pilots, and promoting pilots to bigger, heavier planes, based on skin color instead of proficiency.  He implied that the First Officer (co-pilot) was only barely proficient.

So what almost certainly happened was that the barely-proficient First Officer (the co-pilot)--was flying by what his ears were telling him, rather than by using the attitude-indicating instrument.  The captain--believing the FO had to have been competent and thus knew better than to fly based on his ears--was either tuning radios or similar instead of watching his own attitude indicator.

Fortunately he noticed it in time to *narrowly* avoid flying a perfectly good plane into the ocean.

SO...several takeaways here:  First, United's success in keeping this near-crash from being reported for two months.  Second, the FAA's cooperation with that, since they knew the cause right away but wanted to avoid making the biden regime's "diversity hire" order look stupid and dangerous.

Third: the complicity of the Mainstream Media in hiding this event.  It's almost certain that passengers reported this chilling near-crash at the time, yet the Media ignored the story.  That's...odd, since near-crashes of big jets are usually front-page news.  Yet the media ignored this one.

Imagine the screams of outrage from the Mainstream Media if an order from Trump put the public at risk.  But when the order was from the Democrat regime...crickets.