Two Incidents of Pilots Fainting in Flight on Alaska Airlines

This “comment” is written by Dr. Todd Curtis, licensed pilot and Founder of AirSafe.com. He was a flight test engineer in the U.S. Air Force, and while an airline safety engineer at Boeing, was directly involved in numerous plane crash investigations. He comments on the two recent incidents of Alaska Airlines pilots losing consciousness in flight. “Evidently, all these Alaska Airlines jets are WiFi-enabled.” He believes that the appropriate authorities, including the Federal Aviation Association (FAA) should take a serious look at in-flight Wi-Fi.

Dr. Magda Havas, Associate Professor of Environmental & Resource Studies at Trent University, Canada, and expert on the biological effects of electromagnetic pollution, comments:

"The cockpit of an airplane is already electromagnetically polluted by low frequency (400 Hz) magnetic fields associated with the internal wires (that typically run through conduits behind both the pilot and co-pilot) and that are generated by the heating of the windows (to keep them flexible); to the radar; to the "coming soon" Wi-Fi radiation. That combined with being in polluted airports, cosmic radiation, changes in time-zones, job-stress, and sleep issues may produce the perfect storm...

"There are certain professions that are responsible for the lives of many and pilots and co-pilots are near the top of that list. We need to take this situation seriously if we want to avert a disaster. Even in the event that we are wrong about electrosmog making pilots faint, practicing good electromagnetic hygiene on board civilian and military aircrafts is a good idea."

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