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Federal authorities have been investigating nearly 5,000 pilots suspected of falsifying their medical records to conceal that they were receiving benefits for mental health disorders and other seriou...
Nearly 600 of those pilots being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) fly planes for passenger flights.
Federal authorities have been investigating about 5,000 pilots suspected of falsifying their medical records to conceal conditions that could make them unfit to fly.
"The system discourages people from getting help," one pilot said. Another said, "please change the regulations, please modernize them to this decade."
Experts say the positive outcome of the collision was a combination of luck and advanced life-saving technology. “It’s very rare for me to be able to say ‘midair’ and ‘no fatalities’ in the same sentence,” said Joseph LoRusso, a Broomfield, Colorado-based aviation attorney and commercially rated pilot. The damage to the Metroliner's rear fuselage was in the “perfect location,” said Anthony Brickhouse, an associate professor of aerospace and occupational safety at the Daytona Beach, Florida campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. “If it was the flight deck: Bad outc...