I've heard that British Airways has had all its pilots vaccinated. However, when I do a Bing search for this, I get nothing but headlines about four dead pilots. I find no confirmation about the rumour I was researching. All I find is a confirmation by British Airways that four of their pilots died within a week of becoming fully vaccinated, that they were in excellent health, and between 40 and 50 years of age.
British Airways has 4000 pilots, so four deaths makes 0.1%. But this is after a single week. If their deaths are vaccine related and not pure coincidence, we should see more deaths over the coming weeks and months. There might even be pilots falling ill mid-flight. If it turns out that vaccines and high altitudes are incompatible, we may even see entire crews falling ill mid flight, leaving it up to the passengers to land the planes safely.
This will make for some interesting times going forward, not least for the pilots at British Airways. Who's next to drop dead? Where is this headed? Nobody knows, because the vaccine is not fully tested, and the only ones currently testing the vaccine in high altitudes are fully vaccinated cabin crew like the pilots that just died. They'll have to do their job as guinea pigs for a few more months before we know anything for certain.
British Airways coming in for landing |
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