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FAA Forms Advisory Committee on Pilot Mental Health Issues

30 May 2015 04:01:59

ainonline.com

The Federal Aviation Administration has formed an aviation rulemaking committee (ARC) to make recommendations within six months on pilot mental health and screening issues. The agency said it assembled the expert group as a result of the March 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and the crash this March of Germanwings Flight 9525.


"œU.S. pilots undergo robust medical screening, but recent accidents in other parts of the world prompted the FAA to take a new look at the important issue of pilot fitness," the agency announced on May 27. The high-level Commercial Aviation Safety Team, an industry and government collaboration founded in 1998, recommended forming the Pilot Fitness ARC.


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