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Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 13 hours ago by Abyssian@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Flight instructor: "Do your best, lol."

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[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"Without incident" means literally nothing remarkable happened. For example, if he had been behaving erratically or threatened suicide during the earlier flight, those would be incidents that should've tipped someone off that they should intervene and not let this guy back up.

If there had been an incident, further investigation would be warranted to determine if this was preventable, and if so, who could have prevented it. The journalist is specifically highlighting that no one but the pilot appears to be at fault right now.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

There's also a huge issue in the aviation industry at least in the US where pilots do not disclose mental health concerns because it results in an immediate grounding - which means loss of pay.

Instructors are often also new pilots who use teaching to build up flight hours until they can land a carrier job, and also have a boatload of debt from their training. So, they're effectively stuck with trying to just deal with it, or face bankruptcy.

Xyla Foxlin is a youtuber and amateur pilot who had faced a mental health issue and was grounded for quite some time, she has a few videos talking about it.