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NTSB chair discusses dangers of burnout in airline industry
It’s been described as the airline industry’s silent struggle, the issue of pilot mental health. It was pushed into the spotlight when an off-duty pilot was charged with trying to crash an Alaska Airlines flight from inside the cockpit. The National Transportation Safety Board held a summit devoted to mental health in aviation and NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy joined Geoff Bennett to discuss.
