| They should be permitted medical use of drugs, when needed.
These pilots in the above examples were over worked and exausted, and when concern was announced by the pilots themselves, it went ignored and they were drugged up with a narcotic not ment for what they did.
This does not solve the problem of them being over worked and exausted, but masked the effect that they are still exausted.
Without proper sleep and REM, you loose your ability to make sound judgements, for one thing.... and these drugs didn't solve that problem.
They made the problem worse and could have been directly responsible for the judgements of the pilot.
Jumping into hypotheticals (But this is a logical one) you've must have pulled a few long days without sleep, or decent sleep? If you were a pilot, over tired and drugged to stay awake, do you think you would be able to determine with certainty and safe judgment of your own life, the difference between fire from the ground firing in a live fire exercise, and ground fire into the air?
During limited visability and the information provided to you?
Then the question is who is responsible for the incident? Plenty of people have their responsibilities in this matter. |