Safety
Study: 12% of Pilots Could Be Suffering from Depression
Seventy-five participants, or 4.1 percent, reported having suicidal thoughts within the past two weeks before taking the survey.

More than 12 percent of active airline pilots are managing symptoms of depression, “perhaps without the possibility of treatment due to the fear of negative career impacts,” according to a study published on December 15 by BioMed Central and reviewed by Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Pilots were recruited from unions, airlines and airports to take the anonymous web-based cross-sectional survey conducted between April and December 2015.