he even had to 'immobilise' his arm to prevent him trying to down a...?
Posted on 03/22/2010 4:49:35 PM PDT by rawhide
A jumbo jet pilot has told how he repeatedly had overwhelming urges to crash the planes he was flying. Bryan Griffin said that once he even had to 'immobilise' his arm to prevent him trying to down a Qantas passenger jet. His hand had 'involuntarily moved towards the start levers' on the journey to Singapore.
The compulsion to cut out the engines was so strong, he had to leave the flight deck and did not return until he had calmed down. The pilot revealed during a compensation hearing how he was also afflicted by urges to scream and cry, ignored instructions, and repeatedly missed radio and altitude calls.
But despite his health problems and seeing several doctors he was declared fit and kept on flying. Mr Griffin said he fought the destructive urges to switch off his plane's engines for three years. Even as his disorder worsened, he continued to work. He told colleagues and again he saw numerous doctors and psychiatrists before being given extended leave to recuperate.
But, the Sydney Morning Herald reported, he nevertheless returned to flying despite his health problems. Eventually Mr Griffin resigned with severe obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety and depression. His alarming testimony emerged as he won £97,000 compensation from Qantas for not recognising that his condition had left him mentally unfit to be in charge of a plane. A report by Mr Griffin's psychiatrist concluded the airline had failed to fully understand his serious mental health problems.
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Sounds like the crazy man was more sane than Qantas. Remember that when flying!
a flight sim might help this guy. you can crash ‘em all ya want.
Sounds like he’d fit right in at EgyptAir.
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And I thought Quagmire was the pilot:
WTH. In the states if a commercial pilot so much as goes to mariage counciling he will loose his rating.
I have been out of flying for a few years, but I think I have this right.
LOL!
Dr Strangelove was my first thought, as well.
What’s his moslem name?
You’re kinda right and kinda wrong. At the time a pilot renews his medical certificate, he must report all visits to a health professional. Yes, a marriage counselor is a health professional.
Let’s take it a step further. Let’s say a member of my family has a drug or alcohol addiction. If, as a part of that person’s therapy, the whole family goes to counseling, then yes, a family member that is a pilot has to report that even though they were going to a health professional on behalf of a family member.
Dentists are health professionals, so that counts, too.
You can’t loose your certificate just by going to the health professional, but if you don’t report it, and the FAA finds out about it, and it has to do with a disqualifying condition related to flying (diabetes, heart disease, psychosis, etc,)....now you’ve got a problem and likley will lose your medical certifcate.
The Kamakazi pilots.
Good one.
If he succeeds, is that considered ‘pilot error’, or ‘mission complete’?
His actual objective was to collect lots of disability $$$. He could have just quit and found another career. That's not what he wanted to do. He wanted to get paid to stop flying.
LOL! That’s the first thing I thought of....RAINMAN ...omg can’t believe that.
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