Blog #6: ASA Flight Crew 5202

For this blog I chose to write about, ASA Flight crew 5202. It all started, on February 12, 2009, Rachelle Jones, Stephanie Grant, Diana Galloway, and Robin Rogers became the first all female African-American flight crew. The flight crews are chosen at random, but never in history was a crew made up exclusively of African-American women. Each woman took a unique path to a career in aviation, Grant was originally in the military, Jones worked at a ticket gate, and Rogers ran a daycare center.  Grant loves the sense of purpose she gets from flying, "each flight is like a mission" and "at the end, you've helped someone". One day, Rogers met an African-American male flight attendant, she didn't even realize it was a profession she could enter. Jones was one of only 10 African-Americanfemale flight captains in the country. Galloway hopes to show her granddaughter, "you don't have to be a maid in the hotel, you can run that hotel." Many people still consider aviation a male-dominated, white-dominated industry, but Flight crew 5202 feel proud they've set an example for young black women, and children.

The concepts of this article, are similar to the concepts in chapter 7 in the book Outliers. In the chapter it talks about flight captains and copilot who are to afraid of speaking up to their superior bosses and because of their fear, and them sugar coating what they were trying to point out they killed  many people including themselves. This article is similar, yet different at the same time, because they all are pilots but the difference is the women do communicate, unlike the people in the chapter.