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This is not the first time Amazon has suffered a serious aviation mishap. Atlas Air Flight 3591, operating for Amazon, was flown into the ground in Texas in February 2019, destroying the 767 cargo aircraft and killing the 2 crew and 1 passenger aboard. Cause of the crash: Spatial disorientation of the co-pilot (at the controls) on approach due to pilot error. So who was this co-pilot at the controls? First Officer Conrad Jules Aska, an immigrant from Antigua. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that Aska's poor training and inability to handle pressure contributed to the crash of Atlas Air Flight 3591. The co-pilot withheld parts of his work history from the air carrier to conceal his troubles at other airlines and was a "train wreck" in training. The co-pilot's training record showed he acted "impulsively" during training exercises at several previous airlines and had a history of failed check rides, in which an instructor or supervisor watches. Some notable quotes: "The first officer's training record was bluntly, well, terrible," said NTSB Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg. "He had an inability to remain calm during stressful situations," investigator David Lawrence, a pilot, said. From Mentour Pilot's video on this mishap: "Training records showed several very worrying tendencies, including that, when he was faced with a situation that he wasn't expecting, he would sometimes react by just randomly starting to push buttons and make inputs on the flight controls in order to be seen as doing something rather than taking the time to properly evaluate the situation. Now this all pointed towards an individual with personality traits not suitable for a commercial pilot." So how did this man get to be hired, promoted, and at the controls of a 767? One look at his photo answers all questions. Thank God he wasn't flying a passenger aircraft. But there are other DEI pilots who do.