Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

“It is not an easy process for them to get back into the cockpit. They will have to go through these evaluations by a psychiatrist and a neuropsychologist to do that. … This is a pilot who basically is being responsible saying, ‘I am not up to flying because of my grief or whatever.’”

Source: Dr. Brent Blue, a physician and senior aviation medical examiner who works with pilots battling drug and alcohol issues, in media discussions following off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph David Emerson's attempts to deploy the engine fire-suppression systems of an in-flight Horizon Air Embraer E-175.

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