REVIEW OF PILOT DEATH

David ROBERTSON

In May 1994 British Airways pilot David Robertson, 52, died in the first in-flight fatality in the airline's history. Work stress and long working hours have been implicated in this and other pilot deaths. Flight Safety Digest reported their chances of dying in their sixties is twice as high as that of other men.

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Is this the first case of Karoshi in UK aviation? In Japan Karoshi victims families receive compensation, acknowledging this as the corporate crime that it is.

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IN MEMORIAM

(2005) Guy HENDERSON

(2004) Matt RADFORD

(2002) Captain Peter Alfred STANDING QCVSA

(2002) Rodney SKIDMORE

(2002) Captain Anthony TAYLOR

(2001) Ole-Friis ERIKSEN

(2001) Russell DIXON

(2001) Captain Carl MASON

(2001) Lt Col HYVONEN

(2000) Captain Norman LEES

(1999) Joseph BRINELL

(1998) Graham BUDDEN

(1996) Captain Alan YOUNG

(1994) David ROBERTSON

(1994) Flt. Lt. Rick COOK

(1994) Flt Lt Jon TAPPER