Denied medical / Alcohol & Drug Rehab

"Peter R." wrote in message
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Gig 601XL Builder wr.giacona@coxDOTnet wrote:

Well since you dared me...

Here's your report straight from the Feds.

http://www.cami.jccbi.gov/aam-400A/A...LTXT/00_21.pdf

See, they study this ****.

Between 1994-1998 765 FATAL accidents involving drugs or drink.

Did you see the drugs listed in the table in that report? Not only were
illegal drugs and disallowed medicines listed, but this report also
included FAA-approved drugs, such as Ibuprofen, Acetaminophen, and
Pseudoephedrine. Are the Feds really counting pilots found with these
drugs in this study?

There probably isn't one flight I take where at least one of those drugs
above wouldn't be found in my body.

Plus even for the illegal or FAA-prohibited drugs, the study didn't set any
concentration threshold (they used a threshold only for alcohol), so there's
no way to know if they were detecting usage that was either recent or
pharmacologically significant (who cares if the pilot smoked a joint two
weeks ago?).

Still, they report excessive alcohol concentration in 4-9% of fatal
accidents, which is way higher than the Nall Report's estimate of 1.1% (for
alcohol and all other drugs combined). I wonder what accounts for the
discrepancy.

--Gary