Wed, Jul 05, 2017
Aerospace Medical Association Passed Resolution At Their Annual Meeting
The membership of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) passed a resolution supporting an international policy for mandatory reporting of aircrew and aviation-related personnel who have medical or psychiatric conditions that would be hazardous to safe aviation duties. AsMA passed the resolution at their annual business meeting held during the 88th Annual Scientific Meeting in Denver, CO, on May 2, 2017.
According to the association, many U.S. and international organizations have reporting and information sharing requirements for diseases of consequence to public safety such as infectious diseases. In addition, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) already has an anonymous reporting hotline for medical conditions which may impact individual pilot safety or the safety of the flying public.
The Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses (BEA) report on the Germanwings crash of 2015 that resulted in 150 fatalities found the cause to be a co-pilot who intentionally flew the aircraft into the ground to commit suicide. It was later learned that the pilot's physicians were known to have been treating him for multiple episodes of major depression with psychosis. The BEA report recommended reporting of conditions that pass a threshold of risk to the public while balancing individual medical confidentiality and passenger safety. Many international agencies are contemplating, or have enacted, requirements for physicians to report unsafe medical conditions for airline pilots and multiple states in the U.S. already have motor vehicle laws for reporting medical impairment, secondary to both cognitive and physical limitations.
The resolution states: The Aerospace Medical Association advocates a uniform international policy on mandatory reporting of aircrew and aviation-related support personnel with psychiatric, psychological, behavioral and/or medical issues that pose a significant risk to public safety.
(Source: AsMA news release)
FMI: www.asma.org
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