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Another civilian pilot dies in flight while flying a Dreamliner. What happens ?

Something strange is happening to civilian commercial airline pilots: On Monday, a pilot in command of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner suffered a fatal cardiac arrest in the bathroom of a commercial flight from Miami to Chile.

“Flight LA505 (Miami–Santiago) was hijacked at Tocumen International Airport in Panama due to a medical emergency of one of the three crew members in command,” according to CBS News , which obtained a statement from LATAM Airlines.

The airline continued: "Unfortunately, after landing and receiving further medical attention, the pilot passed away."

Here are the latest headlines about riders suffering from medical emergencies:

In February, Captain Robert Snow revealed that he suffered a cardiac arrest during the final approach of an American Airlines flight. He said he was vaxxed to maintain his employment status with the airlines.

All this may be linked to the relaxation of the criteria on the medical health of pilots, precisely with regard to the heart, by the FAA and other air traffic control authorities

Then there are the other suspects: In late January, US Senator Ron Johnson sent a letter to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acting Administrator Billy Nolen and Federal Office of Aerospace Medicine chief air physician Susan Northrup sheds light on a worrying trend related to medical events in airline personnel following covid-19 vaccination.

“What steps has the FAA taken or will the FAA take to investigate whether Cody Flint, Hayley Lopez, Greg Pierson, Bob Snow, Wil Wolfe and other pilots have experienced adverse events of the COVID-19 vaccine?” Johnson asked.

The Senator wrote, “Based on data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, the whistleblower reported that the total number of pilot illnesses and injuries across the Defense Department was 265 in 2016; 252 in 2017; 164 in 2018; 223 in 2019; 2,194 in 2020; 2,861 in 2021 and 4,059 in 2022. These increases in pilot illnesses and injuries across the Department of Defense over the past three years, and particularly the past year, raise questions as to whether the FAA has recorded similar increases in illnesses and injuries in individuals in the aeronautical sector”.

Time to do some serious investigation…


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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/un-altro-pilota-civile-muore-in-volo-mentre-pilotava-un-dreamliner-che-succede/ on Sat, 19 Aug 2023 16:54:32 +0000.