What Next: Pilots' Hidden Mental Health Crisis

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

For pilots facing mental health problems, of almost any kind, the cost of getting help might be too much to bear. After a crisis on an Alaska Airlines flight, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are examining how to make the skies safer, while allowing pilots to get help. Guest: Pete Muntean, pilot, flight instructor and CNN correspondent covering aviation and transportation. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.0	More than anything.
0:56.0	My girlfriend wouldn't appreciate me saying that.
1:01.0	You could call Pete M Mundine a plane person.
1:05.2	He reports on aviation for CNN.
1:07.3	His parents were both pilots.
1:08.8	His mom flew in air shows.
1:10.9	When I got him on the line the other day, he'd just gotten out of the cockpit.
1:15.0	He'd been flying upside down. He does aerobatics.
1:18.0	That doesn't scare the hell out of you?
1:21.0	No, it doesn't really scare me. It kind of builds your confidence actually
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