Type 1 or 2? Biiiiiiiiiiiig difference.
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080322/NEWS/803220323
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Pilot hid syringes[/h]Crews had been flying planes for different companies, including cargo and passenger airlines, for more than 10 years, federal pubic defender Oscar Cruz Jr. said in court papers. He was once named Employee of the Year at Cape Air.
He was also promoted by the company to lead pilot of Caribbean operations, court documents say.
During his entire flying career, he was coping with diabetes. Diagnosed in 1984, the disease worsened and he became insulin-dependent in the early 1990s.
Rather than lose the career he loved, he hid his condition, according to court records. Beginning in 2000, he repeatedly lied on FAA medical certification forms about suffering unexpected fainting spells, dizziness and seizures that sometimes sent him to the hospital. He also lied about needing to take insulin.
Instead, Crews continued to fly — hundreds of times — and hid syringes and insulin in a Tupperware container in his lunch box.
In addition to the crash landing, at least two other Cape Air incidents have been linked to Crews' medical condition, court documents say.
In 2000, Crews lost his pilot-in-command status when he got sick during a Cape Air mail run flight. In May 2001, he was about to take off from Providence to Martha's Vineyard when an air traffic controller noticed problems with his speech and performance and cancelled the flight. Crews was grounded after that incident but regained medical clearance to fly, according to Times archives.
On Feb. 8, 2002, Crews had already piloted 12 flights.
"He acknowledges that he pushed himself too far physically ... and that the resulting accident caused his passengers to endure a significant level of anxiety and fear," defense documents say.
