Rogue Pilots Are a Growing Safety Threat. No One Knows How to Stop Them.
The Journal investigates a taboo but deadly issue in commercial aviation: pilots intentionally crashing planes, often due to untreated mental health crises. Despite industry advances in safety, the insider threat of a rogue pilot remains one of the hardest risks to engineer against.
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