Anonymous ID: be807d July 3, 2018, 9:09 a.m. No.2012263   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Pilots die/sick from "dramatic surge in so-called physiological episodes" (4 dead so far)

 

>The Navy considers the physiological episode problem its “number one aviation safety priority.” From 2009 to 2016, the rate of such events increased almost eightfold in the F/A-18 and EA-18G — a version of the two-seater F/A-18 — fleets, from 16 to 125 incidents. In the Navy’s T-45 training fleet, the spike is even more significant: In 2009, the Navy reported just one such incident, but in 2016, the number was 38.

 

those dates…

 

foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/03/tightening-chest-and-tingling-fingers-why-are-the-militarys-fighter-pilots-getting-sick/