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Countless professional pilots are calling on the FAA to take up “decades overdue” mental health reform after one of their own was charged with trying to crash an Alaska Airlines flight.
By Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN
Alaska Airlines incident brings renewed scrutiny to fact that pilots can lose their jobs for getting mental health care.
(CNN) — Richard Wesmoreland says in the beginning, being an airline pilot was great.But the repeated, days-long stretches away from home — commuting back and forth<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/alaska-airlines-incident-renews-calls-for-faa-to-address-decades-overdue-pilot-mental-health-reform/">Read More</a>
Alaska Airlines incident brings renewed scrutiny to fact that pilots can lose their jobs for getting mental health care.