How many commercial pilots lied about their health?

Some disturbing news is being reported this week at Breitbart involving the safety of commercial airline flights. As it turns out, despite the fact that we are still dealing with a serious shortage of pilots in the aviation industry, the situation may be getting worse. The FAA and the NTSB have been reviewing the records of pilots for several years now and it turns out that hundreds of pilots may have lied about their medical records and been flying while dealing with medical conditions that should have disqualified them from flight. Making matters worse, or at least more complicated, the FAA has apparently been looking through veterans’ medical records to obtain this information. So there’s enough bad news to go around for everyone in this story.Read More