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Charlie Kirk said on a 2024 podcast episode, “If I see a Black pilot, I’m gonna be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified,’” a line widely reported and later fact-checked as authentic . The remark was made...
Four commercial airliners were hijacked on September 11, 2001: American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 struck the World Trade Center, American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, a...
Official post-9/11 reporting and memorials record a total of 246 passengers and crew killed aboard the four hijacked airliners: Flight 11, Flight 175, Flight 77 and Flight 93 . Contemporary and refere...
The available analyses consistently state that , and that , but the provided sources do not supply a plane-by-plane passenger breakdown for the aircraft that struck the World Trade Center (WTC) . This...
Official records and memorials list 40 people aboard United Airlines Flight 93: 33 passengers and 7 crew (40 total), plus four hijackers included among the passengers; the National Park Service and mu...
Investigators recovered a large, spread-out debris field from United Airlines Flight 93: some large pieces and cockpit fragments were found near and beyond the main crater, while much of the aircraft ...
The two airliners that struck the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, are identified in official and encyclopedic records as , which hit the North Tower, and , which struck the South Tower; these desig...
Charlie Kirk’s remarks have been repeatedly clipped and circulated after his September 10, 2025 assassination, prompting disputes about what was actually said and whether clips were taken out of conte...
The four hijacked airliners on Sept. 11, 2001 carried a combined 265 passengers and crew who all died aboard the aircraft: American Airlines Flight 11 (92 aboard), United Airlines Flight 175 (65 aboar...
Over the past five years, the available materials show for the number of Black pilots at United Airlines; reporting highlights initiatives and isolated counts but does not provide an annual headcount ...
Charlie Kirk’s death in September 2025 touched off an intense national backlash that led to dozens — and by some counts hundreds — of people facing job loss, suspensions or investigations over social‑...
Charlie Kirk’s public comments questioning DEI pilots clash with the structure of federal aviation oversight, which centers on rather than employer DEI rhetoric; critics say his framing misrepresents ...
United Airlines runs the United Aviate pathway and the United Aviate Academy as its formal pilot development effort, framed publicly as a response to a global pilot shortage and a tool to hire thousan...
United Airlines does not publish a single, current percentage figure for on its roster; available reporting and company announcements instead emphasize future diversity targets and training programs r...
The complete, name-by-name victim lists for United Airlines Flight 175—the aircraft hijacked and flown into the South Tower on September 11, 2001—are publicly recorded in multiple official and media a...
United Airlines Flight 175 departed Boston for Los Angeles on September 11, 2001 with 65 people aboard — 56 passengers (including five hijackers) and nine crew — and was hijacked and flown into the So...
Airlines themselves are not shown in the supplied reporting to have launched a coordinated public rebuttal to Charlie Kirk’s remarks about “DEI pilots”; instead the reaction documented in the sources ...
The Twin Towers were the centerpiece of the World Trade Center, a 16‑acre commercial complex in lower Manhattan that symbolized U.S. economic power and globalization and were destroyed in coordinated ...
On September 11, 2001, 19 al‑Qaeda militants hijacked four U.S. airliners, flying two into the World Trade Center towers in New York, one into the Pentagon, and one that crashed in Pennsylvania after ...
The core account — that passengers and crew on United Airlines Flight 93 organized and charged the cockpit, precipitating the hijackers’ decision to crash the plane — is supported by cockpit voice rec...