The FAA says it’s totally normal to have a bunch of commercial pilots getting sick with heart issues and having to divert their planes or have someone else do an emergency landing to save all of the passengers’ lives. Nothing [...]
The initial media report about this story read: “A United Airlines flight bound for Chicago made an unplanned stop in Houston Saturday night after someone on board suffered a medical emergency.” The “someone on board” wasn’t some random passenger, though. [...]
Back on November 19th, an American Airlines/Envoy pilot named Captain Patrick Ford died immediately after takeoff. Fortunately, his co-pilot saved the passenger jet from crashing into a residential neighborhood in Chicago. I wrote about this story previously. The FAA won’t [...]
On the night of November 19, 2022, Captain Patrick Ford was at the controls of a regional air carrier of American Airlines – Envoy Air. It was a new job and he just switched to AA from another carrier. Captain [...]