How to choose your pilot

[Spectator]

The South African national carrier, SAA, is reportedly accepting new cadets only from a certain race group.

http://business.iafrica.com/news/811572.html

Cadet pilot training course applications from white men are no longer being accepted by the SA Airways (SAA), it was reported on Friday.

SAA spokesman Kabelo Ledwaba told Beeld that the cadet programme was being advertised online as an initiative to bring pilot demographics in line with the country's broader demographics.

"Only 15 percent of SAA's pilots are currently black, and this includes Indians and coloureds. The rest are white, and 91 percent of them are men."

Ledwaba said the airline would appoint male, white pilots when there were vacant posts for which applicants of other races could not be found.
Beeld had asked why white applicants were being rejected across the board.

An irate father had called the newspaper to complain that his son, who had a commercial pilot's licence and met the educational and physical criteria, had been rejected on the grounds of race.

By filling out several dummy applications, Beeld established that the online form had been programmed to reject any white applicants.

Forget selecting pilots based on aptitude, critical thinking, etc... we have a much easier way!

(Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that one group of persons is any more suited than the other for the job. It's just seems stubborn to arbitrarily exclude a group that could have the right man for the job.)