FAA employee caught helping minority air traffic controller candidates cheat their way to a job

A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employee was caught helping minority air traffic controller candidates cheat their way to a job.

Navy veteran Shelton Snow, a top figure in the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE), can be heard in a voicemail recorded a decade ago in 2014 offering minority candidates access to the answers to the FAA’s entry exam.

“There are some valuable pieces of information that I have taken a screenshot of, and I am going to send that to you via email,” he says in the voicemail. “I am about 99.99 percent sure that it is exactly how you need to answer each question.”

Listen:

UNREAL. Shelton Snow, an Air Traffic Operations Supervisor at the FAA and a prominent figure inside the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees, was allegedly caught on undercover audio explaining how he will help” minority” air traffic controller candidates cheat… pic.twitter.com/u74q3dsg5f

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 12, 2025

According to the Daily Mail, which broke this story, Snow gave the answers out to blacks, women, and other minorities trying to obtain a job with the FAA. White applicants were excluded to “minimize competition.”

Snow also sent out an email to aspiring FAA employees containing “buzz words” to insert into their job applications to help them more easily catch the attention of hiring supervisors.

“These buzzwords will flag your resume, thereby giving you the advantage over thousands of resumes that may flood the system,” he wrote in the email.

Aspiring employees were also told to list their association with the NBCFAE.

All this reportedly happened weeks after the Obama FAA announced a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring spree targeting women and minorities.

This is exactly what every DEI Officer at every corporation and institution did.

Ushered in UNQUALIFIED black people into jobs they weren’t smart enough to get on their own, while discriminating against QUALIFIED white people.

— Fit American (@fitAmerican60) March 13, 2025

What’s unclear is how many people in total were able to cheat their way to an FAA job thanks to Snow’s help.

“I know several people who cheated, and I know several people who are controlling planes as we speak,” former NBCFAE member Matthew Douglas told the Daily Mail.

This discovery comes amid President Donald Trump’s push to rid the tenets of DEI from the FAA, as well as the rest of the federal government.

Leftist DEI proponents have pushed back on this campaign, claiming it’s an attempt to prevent minorities, particularly blacks, from “succeeding.”

But critics have pointed to cases like that of Mr. Snow to demonstrate how the forced implementation of DEI invariably leads to unqualified candidates being propped up for the purposes of so-called “diversity.”

An example of this played out during the Biden administration when the Department of Justice sued fire and police departments for daring to use STANDARDIZED TESTS to determine candidate eligibility.

The department claimed the tests were racist because mainly white candidates were passing them and demanded that the tests essentially be made easier to appease non-passing minority candidates.

Newly appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi has since rescinded the lawsuits on the basis that the racial disparity between those who pass and fail the tests doesn’t mean anything.

Attorney General Pam Bondi Dismisses DEI Lawsuits Involving Police Officers and Firefighters, Advances President Trump’s Mandate to End Illegal DEI Policies

: https://t.co/iyBoL0WbVK pic.twitter.com/rUPttpEJyF

— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) February 27, 2025

“Despite no evidence of intentional discrimination — only statistical disparities — the prior administration branded the aptitude tests at issue in these cases as discriminatory in an effort to advance a DEI agenda,” a press release from her office reads.

“And it sought to coerce cities into conducting DEI-based hiring in response and spending millions of dollars in taxpayer funds for payouts to previous applicants who had scored lower on the tests, regardless of qualifications,” the press release continues.

Dovetailing back to Snow, he still works for the FAA as an air traffic supervisor in New York, though many are now calling for him to not only be fired but also arrested:

Arrest Shelton Snow!

— Trash Panda (@MintFresh76) March 12, 2025

Everyone who received his email should be reevaluated. Make a new test and give them the opportunity to verify their competency. He should be fired though. That’s obvious.

— Someone Important (@justimportant2) March 13, 2025

Why would anyone in their right mind help someone to cheat on an air traffic controller exam!?!
Are you that ignorant!
Cheating is not the answer. Why? Because people’s lives lie in the balance.
Mr. Shelton Snow should not be in a Supervisor position & be demoted immediately.

— Marsha Rollins (@mrollins1952) March 13, 2025

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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