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Speaker: The FAA said it actively recruits, hires, promotes, retains, develops, and advances people with disabilities.
Speaker: They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.
Speaker: If you're a flight attendant, pilot, co-pilot, mechanic, part of the flight crew, jetway operator, and whatever you call those men and women with the bright orange sticks on the runway,
Speaker: I'm gonna need you to be able to see, hear, have all your limbs, be able to move all your limbs, be seizure-free, and be able to reach whatever it is you need to reach without a stool.
Speaker: I'm sorry, I'd hate to think my loved one died on a flight because the armless, blind, deaf, fully paralyzed, retarded, crazy dwarf pilot couldn't reach for the controls.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah, cancel me.
Speaker: Which is worse, my poking exaggerated fun of a true ludicrous notion about which the FAA is vocal or the ludicrous notion about which the FAA is doing.
