Horizon Employee Who Stole A Bombardier Q400 - Another Side Of The Story

[easik]

As some of you have already seen or heard, 4 days ago a guy named Richard Russell stole and later crashed a commercial airplane from Seattle Int Airport. This guy clearly needed some help but already too late. I made a video to share my thoughts on mental heath, an Issue I feel no one talks about.

And weird enough I just read another story of a pilot crashing an airplane into his own home after a domestic dispute with his wife. https://abcnews.go.com/US/pilot-dies-plane-crashes-utah-home-couple-inside/story

WTF is going on in the world of aviation this month? Curious if the FAA decide to take any action on this. Possibly more health screening on the horizon?

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

I for one am not OK sitting in a metal tube knowing that whether or not the pilot took his pills that morning might be the determining factor in my and my family's safety.

The real question here is whether the tests and policies of the FAA are capable of predicting who is at risk of endangering passengers. We may all have a feeling about it, such as that expressed in this quote, but what are the numbers really?

Do the procedures used in aeromedical evaluation have any predictive value of flight safety? I’d love to see the studies referenced.

If there is no demonstrable predictive value, then a lot of money and time is being spent on something that doesn’t clearly help which could probably be better spent on other things, if one is really concerned with saving lives and minimizing danger.