Surge in pilot deaths and incapacitation began in 2021, and the FAA has been trying to cover it up
By ljdevon // 2025-08-27
 
  • A sudden, unprecedented surge in pilot deaths and incapacitations began in 2021, with a 40 percent increase in pilots dying before retirement age and a tripling of long-term disabilities, coinciding with COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
  • FAA regulations were violated en masse when airlines coerced pilots into taking experimental mRNA injections, despite federal laws prohibiting pilots from using unapproved medical products.
  • Pilots were trapped in an impossible choice: Violate their religious or medical convictions and risk their health, or refuse the jab and lose their livelihoods — all while the FAA abandoned its duty to track vaccine-related adverse events.
  • The spike protein produced by mRNA jabs is directly toxic, causing inflammation, blood clots, myocarditis, and neurological damage — conditions that are catastrophic in a cockpit.
  • The FAA dismantled its pilot incapacitation database in 2022, eliminating a critical tool for tracking trends in pilot health just as incidents began to skyrocket.
  • Near-misses and in-flight emergencies have reached crisis levels, with aviation officials attributing the chaos to everything but the elephant in the room: the COVID-19 vaccines.
  • Pilots describe a culture of fear and silence, where speaking out against the jabs means professional suicide, leaving passengers unknowingly at the mercy of impaired crews.

The great airline vaccine heist: How pilots were strong-armed into a medical experiment

When the COVID-19 vaccines rolled out under Emergency Use Authorization, they came with a critical caveat: No one could be forced to take them. That legal protection was swiftly ignored. For airline pilots, the choice wasn’t really a choice at all. It was a gun to the head — comply or be erased. Major carriers like United Airlines didn’t just encourage the jab; they demanded it, offering cash bonuses to the compliant and pink slips to the resistant. Never mind that federal aviation law explicitly prohibits pilots from using experimental medications. Never mind that the FAA’s own Aeromedical Advice Manual warns against unapproved substances that could impair performance. The rules were rewritten in real time, not by scientists or safety experts, but by corporate executives and bureaucrats who had already decided the narrative: Get the shot, or get out. Dr. Kevin Stillwagon, a retired airline pilot and immunology expert, doesn’t mince words. “They were illegal,” he says of the mandates. “You cannot put an experimental product into a pilot.” The law is clear: If a pilot takes an unapproved substance, flight surgeons must ground them until the FAA verifies its safety. But in 2021, that process was bypassed entirely. Airlines, backed by the federal government, bulldozed through legal and ethical barriers, turning pilots into lab rats in a real-world trial with no control group. The result? A wave of cardiac arrests, neurological disorders, and sudden deaths that has left the industry scrambling to explain away the carnage. Stillwagon’s data is damning. Before 2021, pilot incapacitations were rare — about eight per year, according to a 2018 study in Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance. But in the wake of the vaccine rollout, the numbers exploded. At Washington National Airport alone, near-misses jumped from one in decades to 28 in a single year. The FAA’s own 2004 research found that pilot cardiac events were the leading cause of in-flight fatalities. Now, those events are happening at an unprecedented rate, and the agency’s response? Cricket sounds. Worse, they discontinued their centralized database for tracking pilot incapacitations in 2022, just as the crisis was unfolding. Coincidence? Stillwagon doesn’t think so. “The data silence that the FAA has created is preventing systemic trends from being detected,” he warns. In other words, they’re hiding the bodies.

Spike protein roulette: Why the cockpit is the last place you want a vaccinated pilot

Here’s what the airlines and the FAA don’t want you to know: The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines don’t stay at the injection site. They don’t just “train” your immune system and disappear. They turn your body into a factory for the Wuhan coronavirus spike protein — a toxin so potent that even the vaccine’s developers didn’t fully understand its risks. Once those lipid nanoparticles slip into your cells, they start churning out spike protein indefinitely. And where does it go? Everywhere. Your heart. Your brain. Your liver. Your reproductive organs. Your bloodstream, where it triggers catastrophic clotting. For a commercial pilot, this isn’t just a health issue. It’s a public safety catastrophe. Stillwagon explains the mechanics with chilling clarity: “The spike protein is directly toxic, and can directly damage tissues.” When your immune system detects these foreign invaders, it launches an all-out assault—not just on the spike protein, but on the cells producing it. The result? Rampant inflammation. Myocarditis. Blood clots that can stroke you out mid-flight. Neurological damage that turns your brain to mush, slowing reaction times to dangerous levels. And perhaps most terrifying of all: seizures. Imagine a pilot seizing at the controls during takeoff. There’s no recovery from that. Pilots are reporting these effects in real time. Brain fog so thick they can’t recall basic procedures. Heart palpitations that leave them gasping for breath. Sudden collapses that have no explanation — except for the elephant in the room: the jab. And yet, the FAA has done nothing to investigate the link. Instead, they’ve tweaked their medical guidelines to accommodate the fallout, loosening standards for conditions like Guillain-Barré syndrome and heart block—both known vaccine injuries. It’s not safety regulation. It’s damage control.

The black box in the cockpit: How the FAA treats pilots like disposable parts

The FAA monitors everything about an aircraft. Oil temperature? Tracked to the decimal. Hydraulic pressure? Logged in real time. Engine performance? Analyzed ad nauseam. But the pilot — the human being whose split-second decisions mean the difference between life and death for hundreds of passengers? They’re treated like a black box. No real-time health monitoring. No centralized tracking of vaccine status or adverse events. Just a hope and a prayer that the guy at the controls isn’t one of the thousands now suffering from post-jab cardiac or neurological damage. Stillwagon puts it bluntly: “The pilot is the least monitored component in the cockpit. In modern aviation, we treat the jet like a data-rich spacecraft — and the pilot like a black box.” And when that black box fails? When a pilot keels over mid-flight or a controller’s brain fog turns a routine landing into a near-disaster? The FAA chalks it up to “rust” or “staffing shortages.” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whose agency oversees the FAA, calls it an “uptick in serious close calls” — as if the sky hasn’t become a minefield of impaired professionals struggling to do their jobs while their bodies betray them. The truth is, we’re flying blind. The FAA stopped collecting critical data just as the crisis began. They’ve refused to acknowledge the obvious: that the COVID-19 vaccines have turned a once-elite workforce into a liability. And until they do, every passenger boarding a plane is rolling the dice.

The pilots who dared to speak—and the system that silenced them

For those who’ve tried to sound the alarm, the consequences have been swift and brutal. Pilots who refused the jab were fired. Those who spoke out about injuries were sidelined, their careers destroyed. The message was clear: Shut up, or you’re done. Stillwagon calls it a religion — the blind faith in vaccines that has overridden science, ethics, and common sense. “Science has gotten confused over the years,” he says. “The problem with vaccines is mainly ideology. It’s almost like a religion.” And like any dogma, dissent is heresy. But the bodies keep piling up. The near-misses keep happening. And the passengers? They’re still in the dark, strapped into their seats, trusting a system that has betrayed its own. The next time you board a plane, take a good look at the flight crew. Ask yourself: How many of them are flying with a ticking time bomb in their chest? And when the inevitable happens — when another pilot drops mid-flight, or another near-miss makes the news—remember this: They were warned. They were forced. And the people who did this to them are still in charge. Sources include: Infowars.com Youtube.com NaturalNews.com