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         A pilot who was on sick leave for depression, from another job, still got work as a pilot.
     

     
 

 
     

     
     
     
     

         

                     

A Swedish pilot who for three years has been on sick leave for depression, from his work in another profession, still got to fly and work as a pilot. Only when the task was recognized for Transport Agency, he was stopped from flying, reports SVT.

                     
                 

         
 
         
         

             
                 
                 
                 

                     

 

A Swedish pilot who for three years has been on sick leave for depression, from his work in another profession, still got to fly and work as a pilot. Only when the task was recognized for Transport Agency, he was stopped from flying, reports SVT.

The pilot has worked on a freelance basis for a foreign shipping companies the past two years, after the Transport Agency had given informed that the pilot had valid flight documents and therefore counted as fully healthy to get flying.

It was only when SVT got in to the Agency by the Authority drew the pilot’s medical certificate.

 
        
             

     
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– It is extremely serious. It is very important that pilots are healthy in every way when they’re flying, says Pernilla Wollin, responsible manager for certificates and certificates on the Transport Agency, to SVT.

In order to get the medical certificate required to pilot undergoing a thorough physical examination and the pilot filling in a form in which the issues of mental health, medical contacts and medications should be answered. Besides that doctors who treat pilots the obligation to report medical conditions that may be a hazard to aircraft safety to the Transport Agency. It has not happened in this case.

During the last three years Transport Agency has announced two foreign aviation authorities, a foreign domestic airline and a foreign air cargo carriers that the pilot had valid flight documents. Transport Agency can not, however, answer whether the pilot has flown since pilots are not required to report the ongoing, reports SVT.

The authority will now investigate whether also to withdraw the pilot’s pilot license.

The co-pilot who caused the plane crash with Germanwings Planet earlier this year to have suffered from depression.