Up In the Air: Tucker, Sherry Walker Discuss Turbulent Times for Air Travel
Issue #252 | Because he's awesome
For the record — I have a fear of flying. I fly, but I don’t like it. Fear of heights and the talent to get very antsy, very quickly - specifically when stuck inside a metal tube racing across the sky at 30,000 feet - is the recipe for planning a road trip rather than jetting off into the wild blue yonder.
That said, I am fascinated by aviation.
I look up sometimes at the planes flying overhead, and I think, ‘Wow, I guess I know how it works, but I just cannot believe it’s actually something that works.’
Whatever they’re paying top shelf pilots, it’s not enough.
Give me a 2-hour documentary on the story of the Boeing 747, and I’m happy. Book me on a 2-hour flight from here to there, and I need a bag of ‘Mother's little helpers’ to get me on my way.
The latest Tucker chat is enlightening. He and Sherry Walker, a commercial airline pilot for almost 35 years, touch on a number of hot-button issues related to the airline industry.
Walker says DEI has so completely undermined safety standards that pilots are sometimes afraid to leave the cockpit for fear of what their co-pilots will do unattended.
Without knowing exact data, it does seem that plane crashes have become alarmingly common.
Things haven’t always been this way. What’s behind the change?
Walker joined The Tucker Carlson Show to blow the whistle on the forces making our travel plans far less safe.
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