Study: Airline Pilots Anonymously Report Suicidal Thoughts
Research recently published in the journal Environmental Health found that hundreds of pilots currently flying commercial planes may be clinically depressed. Even worse still, researchers found that many of them may not seek treatment due to fears of negative career consequences (like being grounded). From the article: “Nearly 1,850 pilots participated in the anonymous, web-based survey conducted between April and December 2015 and led by Joseph Allen, senior author and an assistant professor of exposure assessment science at Harvard Chan School. The new study comes just a year and a half after a depressed Germanwings co-pilot killed 150 people when...
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