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Hi, I'm Scott out with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green, and this episode of Right Angle is brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.

And gentlemen, I know this will shock many people among us, and especially Bill, who is a pilot, but I saw this headline in the Washington Post, and I had to read the story.

The headline said, 5,000 pilots suspected of hiding major health issues. Most are still flying.

And when they say major health issues, these are largely mental health issues.

Here's the story. Last year, the FAA started spending some $3.6 million

a year that it had allocated to review the licenses of some 4,800 pilots. And what they found

was that there were significant numbers of pilots who were veterans who had claimed VA benefits,

specifically in many cases regarding mental health or other serious conditions,

while also claiming to the FAA on their medical applications that they were perfectly healthy and good to fly. Now, I'm sure Bill

knows a lot more about this than I do, but I thought there were several interesting things about

this. And Steve, I'll start with you since I know that Bill's going to have to back cleanup on this.

There were a couple of things that I noticed. As I got down into the story, first of all,

headline 5,000 pilots suspected of hiding major health issues. I'm picturing zaniness in the friendly skies. You know,

up there, there's all these airline pilots and they're all having problems. Well, and then you

start off reading the story and it says that they find that some 4,800 pilots might have submitted incorrect or false information as part of their medical applications.

Then you read further and you find out that the FAA has already closed about half of those cases

and suspended at least temporarily on an emergency basis, some 60 pilots.

Okay.

Then you read a little further and it says, well, about

600 of the 4,800 pilots were licensed for passenger airlines. So then the rest of those were

mostly charter, cargo, corporate, tour pilots and things like that. It turns out the FAA relies on aviators to self-report conditions

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