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Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight (www.dexerto.com)
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Flight instructor: "Do your best, lol."

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[–] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"Without incident" means literally nothing remarkable happened. For example, if he had been behaving erratically or threatened suicide during the earlier flight, those would be incidents that should've tipped someone off that they should intervene and not let this guy back up.

If there had been an incident, further investigation would be warranted to determine if this was preventable, and if so, who could have prevented it. The journalist is specifically highlighting that no one but the pilot appears to be at fault right now.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    There's also a huge issue in the aviation industry at least in the US where pilots do not disclose mental health concerns because it results in an immediate grounding - which means loss of pay.

    Instructors are often also new pilots who use teaching to build up flight hours until they can land a carrier job, and also have a boatload of debt from their training. So, they're effectively stuck with trying to just deal with it, or face bankruptcy.

    Xyla Foxlin is a youtuber and amateur pilot who had faced a mental health issue and was grounded for quite some time, she has a few videos talking about it.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    because it results in an immediate grounding - which means loss of pay.

    I can't think of a more macabre example of why making people's livelihood depend on their health is a bad idea. That also applies to other jobs, where a creeping loss in performance might not immediately kill, but far more so in professions where lives are placed in the care of someone who can't afford to be honest about their reliability.

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