Nearly 5,000 pilots licensed to operate in the US are under investigation for allegedly falsifying their medical records to hide conditions that could make them unfit to fly, the Federal Aviation A…
Nearly 5,000 pilots licensed to operate in the US were investigated for allegedly falsifying medical records to hide conditions that could deem them unfit to fly, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
As for the rest whose cases are still open, “the vast majority of these pilots may continue to operate safely while we complete the reconciliation process,” Lehner said. “There are people out there who I think are trying to play both sides of the game,” Jerome Limoge, an aviation medical examiner in Colorado Springs told the outlet. “They’re being encouraged by VA to claim everything. Some of it is almost stolen valor.”
By 2019, investigators finally had the means to compare FAA data with VA records, with US Inspector General Michael’s office alerting officials to the nearly 5,000 troubling cases.
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