Congress Examines Pilot Medical Record Fraud

Ken Finney wrote:
"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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Larry Dighera wrote:
This begs the question, by what means did the DOT IG substantiate
the thousands of alleged "egregious cases" of airmen lying about
debilitating medical conditions on their applications for airman
medical certificates?

Well they either lied to the FAA or they lied to the SSA.


Why do you feel that this alleged lying _only_ concerns airmen who
are receiving disability compensation from the government? Is it
not plausible that there exists a medical reporting database that
might document medical conditions undisclosed by airmen on their
FAA medical application?

I don't, but the cross-referencing between the SSA and FAA databases
is where this came from.

Do you have reason to think that they are getting the data from
somewhere else?

Being that at least one airplane manufacturer (Diamond?) has a option
to get it configured for being flown by disabled pilots, is it not
possible that a person can be disabled "enough" to draw SS but not
disabled enough to not have a medical?


Sure, but the point is that they lied to either the FAA or the SSA because
the FAA database did not list the problems they were getting benefits for
from the SSA.