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5,000 pilots suspected of hiding major health issues. Most are still flying
Aviation Health • August 27, 2023
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 serious conditions that could make them unfit to fly, documents and interviews show.
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued Regulation (EU) 2020/745, which requires all Commercial Air Transport (CAT) operators to implement a Support Programme (SP) by 14 February 2021. This service is dedicated to providing air operators with an outsourced high quality peer support program for their crews in line with this regulation. Contact us now for more information
The 2015 Germanwings pilot-suicide set the mental health wheels in motion long before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. This led to the European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s new mental fitness rules, which took effect in February 2021. These apply only to pilots, but there have been calls for the regulation to be extended to other safety-critical personnel such as MRO workers
