Cheating Pilots: A Scary Business
Did you know that the USA alone boasts of approximately 25,000 commercial airline flights per day? And, according to a Boeing website, there are 18 million per day worldwide. Each of these vehicles has at least one highly-trained pilot, or so we would hope.
But in shocking news from India, it appears that this is not always the case. After discovering “widespread fraud and corruption in the booming aviation industry,” 18 pilots have lost their licenses. Apparently they were cheating on their flight exams, bribing the examiners, and falsifying flight records. Is this unique to India? We can only hope.