Aviation experts say the incident in which an off-duty pilot tried to disable a jetliner in midflight renews questions about the threat posed by insiders — airline workers who have special access to places where passengers can't go. Incidents like the one Sunday on a Horizon Air flight on the West Coast are very rare.
File - Pilots conduct a pre-flight check in the cockpit of a jet before taking off from Dallas Fort Worth airport in Grapevine, Texas, on Dec. 2, 2020. Aviation experts say the incident on Sunday in which an off-duty pilot, riding in a jump seat in a cockpit, tried to disable a jetliner in midflight renews questions about the threat posed by airline workers who have special access to places where passengers can’t go. The attempt by an off-duty pilot to shut down the engines of a U.S.
During those exams, pilots are supposed to go through an interview and report whether they have received psychiatric treatment and what medicines they take. The Federal Aviation Administration says its approved medical examiners are trained to gauge a pilot’s mental health. Loffi, the Oklahoma State professor, said banning pilots from the jump seat would be silly because a pilot intent on crashing the plane could simply wait until their turn to operate a flight.in the French Alps. The man had been treated for suicidal tendences but did not tell the airline.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the FAA will look into “any safety considerations” that come out of investigations of the Horizon Air incident.
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