A Honolulu-bound UPS jet crashed shortly after takeoff near the Louisville, KY airport on Tuesday evening. All three crew members on board the plane were killed, along with nine people on the ground. Another eleven people on the ground were hospitalized, with two in critical condition. It will take the FAA 12 to 24 months to conduct a full investigation into the crash. However, an FAA watchdog group is still trying to sound the alarm on COVID-vaccinated pilots having seizures and heart attacks in the air.
Way back in 1993, the FAA launched a database to track “incidents” that involved pilots having mid-air seizures, heart attacks, or other incapacitating health events. According to US Freedom Flyers, and FAA watchdog organization, the FAA maintained this pilot incapacitation data registry for 28 years.
Between 2016 and 2020, the US averaged about 33 in-flight incidents involving pilot seizures and heart attacks. In early 2021, the FAA under the Biden regime shut down the data registry.
Right after the rollout of the COVID vaccines, and as the airline industry was mandating that all pilots and crew members take the shots, the FAA stopped tracking pilot seizures and heart attacks.
It’s unclear whether new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is aware of this problem. The FAA openly acknowledges that the COVID vaccines are dangerous. But the agency stopped tracking two of the known side effects that are most likely to lead to a catastrophic crash. To this day, the rule on the FAA website states that pilots must be grounded for 48 hours after taking any Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Novavax, or Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Pilots cannot fly for two days after a booster shot.
We have reported on dozens of terrifying close calls that the airline industry has had since the rollout of the COVID jabs.
One major example happened in Chicago in November 2022. An American Airlines flight carrying 76 passengers took off from O’Hare. Just 20 seconds after the plane left the ground, Captain Patrick Ford died suddenly. He was talking to the air traffic control tower when he died in mid-sentence. The jet was 2,000 feet in the air over a residential neighborhood to the west of Chicago.
Fortunately, the co-pilot was able to maintain control of the plane. He turned it around and made an emergency landing. That could have ended very differently.
In March 2023, there were five pilot incidents that happened in just a two-week period. A Southwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Columbus, Ohio, had to make an emergency landing after the pilot started having chest pains and passed out.
A United Airlines flight between Guatemala and Chicago had to make an emergency landing in Houston after the pilot died suddenly. The airport in Houston initially lied to the public by claiming the plane had a “technical issue.”
The 39-year-old pilot on a WestJet Airlines flight from Alberta, Canada, died mid-flight. An Emirates Airlines flight had to make an emergency landing in Europe after the pilot had a heart attack. The same thing happened on a Virgin Australia flight. This cluster of in-flight heart attacks and deaths all happened in the first two weeks of March 2023. There have been many others we’ve reported on.
According to US Freedom Flyers, pilots are still suffering from elevated numbers of seizures and heart attacks in the air, even if it’s been years since the last time they had a COVID shot. Seizures are even worse than sudden deaths. If a pilot dies suddenly, it’s fairly easy for the co-pilot to take control of the plane.
When a pilot has a seizure, US Freedom Flyers say it locks the pilot’s legs in a rigid position as they’re pressing down on the rudder controls. That disengages the autopilot. The co-pilot then has to wrestle the flight captain’s body out of the way as the plane is suddenly making crazy maneuvers. The watchdog group says it’s only a matter of time before a seizing pilot causes a tragedy.
We don’t know what happened in Louisville on Tuesday night, and we might not know for a while. The last fatal crash of a commercial plane happened in 2009. We’ve now had five fatal crashes in 2025, after the airline industry forced 99% of remaining pilots to take the COVID vaccines. Will the FAA finally start taking a serious look at this issue?