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Aircraft veers 28 minutes off course after both pilots fall asleep in the cockpit



A sleep-deprived pilot and copilot have been accused of allowing the plane they were flying to veer off course after they both dozed off in the cockpit. The flight was carrying 159 people on board, according to a report about the incident.

Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee discovered that Batik Air flight BTK6723 veered off course on January 25 when both pilots fell asleep in the cockpit for about 28 minutes. Neither pilot was named in the document.

The plane was traveling from South East Sulawesi to Jakarta, which was expected to take two hours and 35 minutes. After the plane reached cruising altitude, the 32-year-old pilot asked his 28-year-old copilot if he had permission to sleep for a little while.

When the pilot got confirmation, he reportedly fell asleep for an hour. He woke up briefly to ask his copilot if he wanted to switch places, according to the New York Post.

The 28-year-old declined the offer, and the captain soon fell back asleep. However, when the captain awoke again later on, he found that his copilot had fallen asleep, and the aircraft "was not on the correct flight path," according to the report.

The pilots eventually got the flight back on course and safely landed in Jakarta. No one was injured during the flight, and the plane did not suffer any damage, according to NBC News. The report from the safety committee did not mention if the pilots would face any disciplinary action.

Both pilots were given the green light to fly before the January 25 flight after their blood pressure and heart rate exams came back normal and alcohol tests came back negative.

However, the copilot was said to have had a busy few days leading up to the flight. Not only this, but he was a father to one-month-old twins, and he had recently moved into a new home.

The copilot reportedly admitted to investigators that "his sleep quality had degraded by the several wakes up" from his children on the night before the flight.

The Post reported that according to a survey in July 2023 from the European Cockpit Association, 75% of those questioned admitted that they had fallen asleep at least once while flying a plane. The total number of pilots questioned in the survey was 6,893.

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'Heinous evil': Seminary teacher reportedly fired over offering to pilot flights for women seeking abortion



A seminary teacher was fired after volunteering to transport women seeking abortions, according to a report in the Guardian Monday.

"If any women need to make an unexpected trip from the south to, say, Illinois or New Mexico or Virginia for reasons that are none of my business, I can provide safe, private air transport that would get you where you need to go and back the same day at a price that will work for you," 40-year-old Greg Williams wrote in a Facebook post June 28, 2022.

Williams had been a Greek and Latin teacher at Saint Joseph Seminary College in Covington, Louisiana, since 2015 until he was allegedly fired over the post.

Williams' post came on the heels of the landmarkDobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision June 24, 2022, which overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively sending abortion-related lawmaking decisions back to the states.

According to Williams, he was fired from his job at the seminary a week after making the offer. He told the outlet he was speaking up now, nearly a year later, "to shine a light on the harsh reality of at-will employment."

Williams told the Guardian his post did not explicitly use the word abortion "because Williams' day job ... [at] Benedictine-run Saint Joseph Seminary College has a policy against publicly expressing beliefs contrary to the established teachings of the Catholic church, which stridently opposes abortion."

"Your Facebook post publicly and deliberately advocated a position contrary to the official teaching of the Catholic Church," Williams' July 5 termination letter, effectively immediately, reportedly said. Williams told the Guardian the letter was sent by St. Joseph's rector, Gregory Boquet.

Williams also told the outlet the official letter either outright said or implied he was doing "heinous evil."

In addition to his work teaching at the seminary, Williams, a licensed pilot since 2009, volunteered for a nonprofit called Pilots for Patients. He described his role there as mostly involving flying people who need cancer treatments unavailable locally.

An archived version of Saint Joseph Seminary College's faculty members page from April 2021 lists Gregory Williams, including his degrees from Emory University and Tulane University. An archived version from October 2022 does not include his name. Williams is not included on the school's faculty page today.

The Guardian reports that Williams found new work at an Episcopal church and still flew for Pilots for Patients following his dismissal.

TheBlaze reached out to Saint Joseph Seminary College and Pilots for Patients for confirmation and comment. Neither responded in time for publication.

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Lufthansa strike grounds over 1,000 flights, the latest airline to leave travelers stranded



Deutsche Lufthansa AG staff staged a one-day walkout on Wednesday that caused most flights out of Frankfurt and Munich to be canceled. The strikes also grounded some international flights.

The German trade union ver.di organized the strike to improve wages for ground staff and aircraft technicians impacted by rising inflation and ongoing aviation staff shortages. The union demanded a 9.5% wage increase for 20,000 workers.

In June, ver.di chairwoman Christine Behle explained that the German airline was at risk of losing staff, stating that "after three years of wage sacrifice, employees have been hit particularly hard by the high inflation rate."

Trade union warns of future strikes

Negotiations between ver.di and Lufthansa began at the end of June, and since then, the airline said it agreed to a 5.9%-14.8% increase for workers.

After meeting for two rounds of negotiations, Lufthansa's head of media relations, Martin Leutke, stated that the strike was "completely unnecessary" and "completely exaggerated."

A spokesperson for the trade union explained, "Lufthansa did not make an adequate offer in the first two rounds" and that employees need to demand more in the third round of negotiations.

Navigating a tight labor market

Airlines have struggled to keep up with the demanding post-lockdown summer travel season and industry-wide worker shortages. Lufthansa stated that it would attempt to rebook flights for passengers, but resources are limited.

Because Lufthansa is short on airport staff, the company recommends that those impacted by the cancellations call to rebook.

Chief officer of human resources and infrastructure at Lufthansa, Dr. Michael Niggemann, stated, "It affects our passengers in particular, who are impacted during the peak travel season. And it is putting an additional heavy strain on our employees in an already difficult phase for air traffic."

The airline anticipates another 646 flights will be canceled Wednesday out of Frankfurt and 330 out of Munich. Cancellations are expected to continue through Friday.

Lufthansa is the latest airline affected by a wave of staff strikes. Just last week, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) came to an agreement with the pilot unions, ending a 15-day walkout that impacted over 350,000 passengers.

Worldwide flight cancellations have become an ongoing issue for those looking to travel. Airlines blame a combination of factors, including the surge in post-lockdown travel, staff shortages, and inclement weather.

Rep. Chip Roy and Sen. Lindsey Graham hoped to alleviate the staff shortage crisis by introducing a bill that would increase the mandatory retirement age of pilots from 65 to 67. The Monday press release warned that "nearly 14,000 qualified U.S. pilots will be forced to retire over the next five years."

\u201c"Americans are now experiencing flight delays and cancellations on an unacceptable scale due to a worsening pilot shortage."\n\nRep Roy's new bill with @LindseyGrahamSC would alleviate the crisis by raising the mandatory pilot retirement age:\n\nhttps://t.co/xCyKnsDN0b\u201d
— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@Rep. Chip Roy Press Office) 1658772279

U.S. senators are calling for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the Department of Transportation to take action and protect passengers.

Sen. Bernie Sanders stated in a June press release that prices for tickets rose 38% while airlines experienced a 50% increase in delays and an 18% increase in cancellations.

\u201cThe airline industry got $50 billion in taxpayer money in its time of need. What did Americans get in return? Disruptions, delays, and cancellations.\u201d
— Bernie Sanders (@Bernie Sanders) 1656694910

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Alex Padilla wrote to the DOT that they have "the authority to take meaningful actions to hold airlines accountable for avoidable delays and cancellations."

The two senators accused the airlines of being ungrateful for the billions in taxpayer bailout assistance provided to them during COVID lockdowns. They stated that "major airlines have reciprocated by dramatically increasing ticket prices and reaching new lows in their treatment of travelers."

Until a solution is found, passengers will continue to pay the consequences of significant worldwide flight delays and cancellations.

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Horowitz: Letter to FAA warns that federal law prohibits commercial pilots from flying after taking experimental shots



Just how far have we devolved from typical medical protocols when it comes to mandating experimental shots on everyone? According to a group of lawyers along with doctors familiar with health care protocols in civilian and military aviation, pilots are actually prohibited from flying after taking a non-FDA-approved treatment or one that was approved less than 12 months ago.

Lawyers for Children’s Health Defense, along with several doctors including Lt. Col. Theresa Long, Peter McCullough, and Ryan Cole, recently sent a letter to the FAA and the CEOs of all the major airlines warning that anyone who got the shots, under current regulations, should be subject to a 12-month do-not-fly status. The relevant statute, Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations §61.53, states, “No person who holds a medical certificate issued under part 67 of this chapter may act as pilot in command, or in any other capacity as a required pilot flight crewmember, while that person ... [is] receiving treatment for a medical condition that results in the person being unable to meet the requirements for the medical certificate necessary for the pilot operation.”

While this statute is wide open, the prevailing regulation under the Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners states that examiners should “advise airmen to not fly (DNF) and provide additional safety information to the applicant if they are taking several types of medical therapeutics, including anything approved by the FDA within 12 months.”

FAA generally requires at least one-year of post-marketing experience with a new drug before consideration for aeromedical certification purposes,” the authors warn in the letter. “This observation period allows time for uncommon, but aeromedically significant, adverse effects to manifest themselves ...” (emphasis added).

Isn’t that interesting – that we’d actually want to follow up on uncommon adverse events? Well, here we are with the most rushed vaccine in history, for which none of the commercially available versions have even gotten full FDA approval (Comirnaty is not yet available) and the numerous side effects are common and ubiquitous beyond belief, yet Biden is mandating the vaccine on pilots! Every commercially available vaccine is still under Emergency Use Authorization status. A federal judge in Florida recently found the government’s argument that Pfizer is interchangeable with Comirnaty to be “unconvincing.”

Thus, not a single “vaccinated” pilot who has been flying has received an FDA-approved vaccine and most certainly has not waited the required 12 months post-approval. Just how far has the aviation industry deviated from the law? Commercial pilots only wait 48 hours after having the shots, while military pilots can fly again after just 12 hours. Studies have shown that the average time it takes for myocarditis to present in injected patients is seven days after the shot, but it could take as long as 40 days to become apparent.

Typically, the aviation industry uses the most stringent protocols accounting for the worst-case scenarios for risk assessment of the pilot’s safety after undergoing a medical treatment. “Ordinary military aviation has more stringent medical standards than the FAA,” said one of the authors, Dr. Peter Chambers, in an interview with TheBlaze. “However, both failed to adhere to long-standing risk mitigation and aeromedical safety measures critical to safety of flight, especially with regard to widespread use of an experimental drug with the least long- and short-term safety data ever used by pilots in the history of modern aviation.”

Chambers is a rare gem in the military. He is a flight surgeon and a lieutenant colonel Green Beret, making him one of the few members of the Special Forces with a medical degree. He is currently in the Texas National Guard doing border missions after having served in the Texas COVID response missions last year.

The Special Forces doctor believes he himself was severely injured by the Moderna shot and now suffers from a brain bleed. “After serving 38 years in the military and getting every vaccine known to man, I trusted my government on this one,” said Chambers in describing his initial overcoming of concerns. “After the second shot in March, I developed pretty serious vertigo, brain fog, and unsteadiness of gait. I started taking ivermectin to counter the spike protein. I eventually got an MRI several weeks ago, and changes on it were commensurate with others who had cerebral vascular accidents following the mRNA vaccine.”

Chambers is convinced the shots caused the brain bleed because he had six other soldiers who experienced “the same symptoms and MRI findings around six months after the shot.” Two men in their 40s had to undergo surgery, and one had to learn to speak again. Chambers said that he is having a secondary neurological follow-up to deal with his own injury.

The experience with vaccine injury has harmed Chambers’ work on the ground, which makes him all the more fearful of the consequences for pilots flying in the air.

Chambers and the signing attorneys attached a list of 10 known cases of otherwise healthy pilots who reported adverse events to the VAERS. The ailments included myocardial infarction (heart attack), atrial fibrillation, pericarditis, brain swelling, elevated intra-cranial pressure affecting spinal cord and brain stem, sub-arachnoid hemorrhages (brain bleed), blindness. Needless to say, these are not the sorts of injuries you want when flying a commercial plane. We’ve all seen the hundreds of cases of young athletes suddenly dropping on the playing field. Imagine if we are to see that in a pilot mid-flight. Vertigo, which is a particularly menacing ailment for pilots, is a known common side effect of the COVID shots.

“In sum, neither the law nor common sense countenances that federal agencies charged with ensuring public safety ignore concerning data and thereby jeopardize public safety,” concludes the letter. “Nor do law and commonsense countenance ignoring information that evinces that both pilots and the passengers they serveare at risk of severe injury and possibly death. Finally, neither precept countenances killing a planefull of hundreds of Americans because a commercial pilot loses control of their aircraft aftersuffering a major blood clot, seizure, or myocarditis-related event, which in turn causes his jet to beinvolved in a fatal catastrophic crash ... before regulators decide to finally act.”

The doctors who signed the letter recommended that every pilot who got the shot be “immediately flagged and medically re-certified only after showing aeromedically acceptable D-Dimer, Troponin, ECGs, cardiac MRIs and PULS tests, and otherwise clean bills of health.”

D-dimer tests would easily show who is suffering micro-clotting, and troponin tests measure for the protein that is released when heart muscle is damaged. A recent study showed that PULS tests were critical in surveilling comprehensive cardiac damage done by the shots. Numerous heart health markers from the PULS testing showed that the risk of acute coronary syndrome more than doubled in patients who got the shots, from 11% to 25%.

This letter raises some serious concerns as to how far our government is willing to go in covering up safety concerns about the shots. We have safety regulations for a reason. Shouting “emergency” for a pandemic that is no longer acute and for which the shots no longer work should not drown out the voices of those raising concerns about an industry that relies upon optimal levels of safety at all times.

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