Honesty’s Failures as a Guiding Policy
U.S. federal investigators suspect some 4,800 pilots—primarily U.S. military veterans—falsified their medical records for purpose of concealing their receipt of V.A. benefit conducive to the treatment of mental health disorders and similarly serious conditions by dint of which they could be deemed medically unfit to fly. Veterans Affairs investigators discovered the inconsistencies by cross-checking federal databases. The FAA, however, has purposefully concealed the debacle from public scrutiny.