EXCLUSIVE — Senior Captain Sherry Walker is warning about “the perfect storm” of factors threatening air travel safety. She voiced these concerns in a congressional report and in an interview with the Washington Examiner.

Walker criticized major airlines for straying from merit-based hiring and promotion, creating “unnecessary distractions” with diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, failing to train pilots properly, and failing to address the shortage of qualified pilots correctly. She said specific health conditions that transgender pilots face pose a “safety threat.”