A pilot with a heart attack you may have missed.
(www.flyingmag.com)
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Wow, he had just been in a trial lesson with another client. Can you imagine if you were just checking it out, thinking of taking lessons, and the guy slumps over while you're in the air. Yikes. And the guy flying wasn't the brightest bulb, was he? Even when the instructor slumped over on him, he still thought the guy was 'joking.' Hmm. Real funny.
Herringbone, do you know if someone is keeping track of all these pilot deaths somewhere? Because there have been a lot of them.
I’m in the industry, and I’ve been keeping track.
https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2023/03/07/virgin-australia-pilot-suffers-heart-attack-30-minutes-after-takeoff-prompting-emergency-landing/
https://slguardian.org/sudden-death-of-a-british-airways-pilot-medical-legal-and-human-aspects/
There was one last week out of Vegas as well that hasn’t made the news yet, or if it did it was glossed over.
Thank you. I also noticed in the posted article that they don't always count these types of death because they're not 'accidents.' What the heck? It's even more concerning. A death due to a plane crash is not unexpected. But deaths while flying or while in the cockpit are very troubling. Thanks for the info.
They called it a medical emergency and no information was given or they said they didn’t know his condition