Fatal heart attacks at 37 and 40 are crazy. The DGCA's 2024 handbook reports 9,390 pilots and copilots (page 25[1]). Heart attacks at very young ages are more

Fatal heart attacks at 37 and 40 are crazy. The DGCA's 2024 handbook reports 9,390 pilots and copilots (page 25[1]). Heart attacks at very young ages are more common in India because of rates of smoking and diabetes, but not that common. The large majority of people typically survive MI at that age, and I'm sure those 2 examples are far from exceptional. > IndiGo, India’s largest airline, announced it would be an “early adopter” of a wrist-worn fatigue-monitoring device it was developing with French defense and aerospace company Thales Group. That's toeing the line. If your employer is measuring things like your heart rate variability and blood pressure to figure out how close you personally are to a heart attack, and deciding whether it's worth it to cancel your flight so you can rest- that's abhorrent. It's somehow worse than the employer purchasing your health. It's planned obsolescence for people. How many people would drop dead a year after retiring? Horrifying. The problem is not a lack of pilots or the needs of the country, either. There are foreign pilots and airlines. It's just pilots being driven far too hard by institutions. It won't go away when there are more pilots, it will just become calcified. This is a habit that should be ended through legal means, and fast. [1] https://www.dgca.gov.in/digigov-portal/?page=jsp/dgca/InventoryList/dataReports/aviationDataStatistics/handbookCivilAviation/HANDBOOK%202023-24%20Final%20Draft.pdf&main4252/4205/sericename https://www.dgca.gov.in/digigov-portal/?page=jsp/dgca/Invent...