There is a new report that a pilot for Qatar Airways was traveling in the passenger cabin of a Delhi to Doha flight as an additional crew member when he suffered a cardiac arrest and died. There have been a number of other pilots who have suffered cardiac arrest recently during flight or in the airport (here, here, and here). Senator Ron Johnson is concerned that the increase in aviators' health problems and deaths is linked to COVID vaccines, which were mandated by many airlines for pilots and onboard staff in order to keep their jobs.

A whistleblower reported that the total number of diseases and injuries in pilots across the Department of Defense was 265 in 2016; 252 in 2017; 164 in 2018; 223 in 2019; 2,194 in 2020; 2,861 in 2021; and 4,059 in 2022. 

.In late January, US Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) sent a letter to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acting Administrator Billy Nolen and Office of Aerospace Medicine Federal Air Surgeon Susan Northrup shedding light on a concerning trend of individuals in the aviation industry who experienced medical events after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine. 

"What steps has FAA taken or will FAA take to investigate whether Cody Flint, Hayley Lopez, Greg Pierson, Bob Snow, Wil Wolfe, and other pilots experienced COVID-19 vaccine adverse events?" Johnson asked.

The senator wrote, "Based on data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, the whistleblower reported that the total number of diseases and injuries in pilots across DoD was 265 in 2016; 252 in 2017; 164 in 2018; 223 in 2019; 2,194 in 2020; 2,861 in 2021; and 4,059 in 2022. These increases in disease and injuries in pilots across the DoD over the last three years, and particularly over the last year, raise questions as to whether FAA has seen similar increases in disease and injuries in individuals in the aviation industry."