re: Kendal Swanson identified as alleged pilot of Delta flight

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Why the delay in releasing info?

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Delta made it much worse by delay. I am against DEI, but there is lots of blame to be spread here.

As with Captain Lobach, the delay suggested what we all knew...that the pilot flying the aircraft was a woman. The delay will focus all the attention on Swanson...unfairly.

I pray for her.

Needs to set her sights on crop dusting.

All survived, correct? There's that. BUT...if there's any hint that the result of the crash was someone or several people were trying to make a point about DEI and put that agenda out in front of safety, be it her, Delta, or the crew at the airport, then there should be hell to pay.

We already got an indication of that with the delaying of her name being released.

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Her descent rate was 1100 feet per minute

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Operational experience and research have shown that a descent rate of greater than approximately 1,000 FPM is unacceptable during the final stages of an approach (below 1,000 feet AGL). This is due to a human perceptual limitation that is independent of the type of airplane or helicopter. Therefore, the operational practices and techniques must ensure that descent rates greater than 1,000 FPM are not permitted in either the instrument or visual portions of an approach and landing operation.

Simply put, sustained descent rates over 1,000 FPM are unstable on approach.

Physically, it's difficult for your body to perceive and react to descent rates over 1,000 FPM adequately

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Delta made it much worse by delay.

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Yes they did.

Watching the film more than once the plane pancaked and had no chance for ground effect that floats the plane down the runway for a soft landing.

Things that cause this are sudden and drastic wind change. Too heavy of a aircraft. Too rapid rate of a descent. Or a combo of these. Just a private pilot here I'm sure others know more and can chime in. It won't take long to find out.

The plane did not flair for landing.

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I play pickleball with a Delta Pilot. He said DEI is real. He does training and he cannot fail a black or female. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Delta is non union unlike the other Airlines. I think we all know DEI is legal discrimination. Delta should be sued till they go bankrupt

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Okay, let’s address some of these.

First off, Delta pilots are union, they belong to ALPA (Air Line Pilots Association), but new hires and probationary pilots have limited protections.

What does he mean he can’t fail them? Do they just keep them in training until they can pass the required check rides? Train until pass? That’s neither legal, fair nor safe.

It a pilot causes an accident and it’s proven that had numerous training failures, they can and should be sued into oblivion.

I know the airline I fly for doesn’t do that. Hell, they’re almost the opposite. They don’t want the liability of a pilot with training failures. They let go an older female who had been a captain and a check airmen at a regional airline for many years, for failing one stage check and one type rating check ride.

If he’s telling the truth, they need a whistleblower to blow the lid off of this.

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All I see is an indication that she had not yet logged enough hours to qualify as PIC

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not unlike me or you

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Well, I suspect that I have logged more hours as a pilot that you have, but that is not really the point.

If she has logged only (for example) 1400 hours, she would be 100 hours short of the legal qualification for PIC under an ATP rating, but that would not necessarily equate to "incompetence."

Unless (of course) you consider EVERY pilot holding a Restricted ATP rating to be "incompetent." But that would be a bit of a stretch, don't you think?

So, again, what do you see in that rating information which would lead you to opine that she is "incompetent?"

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So, again, what do you see in that rating information which would lead you to opine that she is "incompetent?"

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i see she did not meet the requirements for pic. Do you think the requirements are just there for shits and giggles? I mean she flew the fricking airplane right into the runway. It's a miracle everyone wasnt killed

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So, again, what do you see in that rating information which would lead you to opine that she is "incompetent?"

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i see she did not meet the requirements for pic.

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All that means is that she has not yet logged the requisite number of hours to move up from a Restricted ATP rating to an unrestricted ATP rating. It says absolutely nothing about her technical competence at the yoke of the aircraft.

Yes, the aircraft had a hard landing and subsequent rollover. Perhaps that was pilot error. Perhaps it was something atmospheric. Perhaps there was some other cause. The investigation by the Canadian version of the FAA will eventually answer that question for us.

But you posted only a listing of her license ratings.

So I ask again (for a third time) what you see in THAT information which gives rise to your opinion that she is "incompetent."

I ask again (for the second time) whether you think that EVERY pilot holding a Restricted ATP license is definitionally "incompetent." Because, if you actually believe that, you must believe that about 1/4 of the co-pilots on regional airlines (both male and female) are incompetent. You must be terrified to go anywhere near an airport.