GLOBAL COALITION STATEMENT:COMMERCIAL AVIATION AND PILOT VACCINE INJURY
17 May, 2022

Safety within professional aviation has vastly improved over the past several decades. This isdue in large part to a “Just Safety” culture founded upon open communication and selfdisclosure of errors or negative safety trends. This requires active participation from all flightcrew to be effective.
Pilots are trained to be careful analysts of their environment, recognizing risks and activelymitigating. For many, their training and differential risk analysis led to concerns and negative
conclusions regarding the compatibility of COVID-19 vaccination with health and flight safety.
Not only did many pilots disagree with arbitrary requirements embodied in vaccination
mandates, but they also saw risks in the unanswered questions and unjustified speed andpressure behind the vaccine rollouts. They lobbied their airlines and politicians, recommending
caution and opposing mandates.
Many pilots also sought guidance from civil aviation regulators. These regulators are ultimately
responsible for the safe and secure transport of citizens, yet most if not all actively ignored theirown safety recommendations against unproven, unapproved drug use or medical trials for flightcrews. Transport Canada, for instance, simply removed this online guidance the week following
numerous pointed, written questions on the same.
Once airlines mandated vaccination, many pilots steadfastly refused based on risk and weresubsequently put on unpaid leave or outright terminated. Principled professionals were forcedout of aviation and the industry lost hundreds of thousands of hours of experience. Now, theglobal airline industry is heading into a dire staffing crisis. Thousands of other pilots were
coerced into vaccination to provide for their families. This has taken a toll on their mental health.
As sobering as all of this is, it merely set the stage for what we are now witnessing: a landscapewhich should greatly concern airlines and the travelling public. The undersigned pilot advocacy
groups, scientists and doctors are hearing daily from vaccine-injured airline pilots. These harms
include cardiovascular issues, blood clots, neurological and auditory issues, to name just a few.
Many of our pilots have lost medical certification to fly and may not recover the same. Others
are continuing to pilot aircraft while carrying symptoms that should be declared andinvestigated, creating a human factors hazard of unprecedented breadth. The very foundation of
our just safety culture - non-punitive reporting - no longer exists. Pilots have suffered and aresuffering medical issues that at least correlate to receiving COVID-19 vaccinations. Their
spectrum of symptoms is broad, ranging up to death. Pilots who report their injury face possible
loss of licensing, income, and career while receiving little to no support from their unions, and aprosecutorial invective from employing airlines. Many of these airlines believe they indemnified
themselves from liability, claiming this in the very same documents that forced “no jab, no job”
mandates on their employees.
Evidence of COVID-19 vaccine health risks, clinical trial irregularities and poor practice andinsignificant efficacy continues to mount. The Pfizer documents released under FOIA, combined

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with organizations like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, USA), Medicines Healthcare
Regulatory Agency (MHRA, UK), Health Canada, and the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA)
regulatory documentation show essential safety and efficacy information has been withheld fromthe public, and the scope of regulatory oversight and testing requirements is inadequate.
Worse, there appears to be no evidence of aviation regulators, airlines or unions having
performed any of their own due diligence into COVID-19 vaccines and the impact on pilot healthor performance. This is at complete odds with existing aviation medical standards. Questions
exist around competence and possible negligence.
Failure to address this potential medical watershed will make the airlines and unions complicit ina culture shift that has rocked the aviation mantra of “safety first, always.” The airlines andunions represented have been encouraged to assist and warned of dire repercussions,
repeatedly, by many of the signatories below. To date there has been little meaningful action,and in many cases nothing but stone-walling and silence.
There is a saying in aviation, “If there’s doubt, there is no doubt.” There is increasing doubt
about COVID-19 vaccinations. There should therefore be no further doubt in aviation. Safety
must return to the fore.
While not an exhaustive list, the airlines below have pilots on staff who are vaccine injured, andwith whom our pilot advocacy groups are in contact:
Jetstar
QantasVirgin Australia
Air Canada
Air Transat
WestJetAir France
EasyJetHOP
Lufthansa

Australia
Australia
Australia
CanadaCanadaCanadaFranceFranceFranceGermany

KLM
TUIAmerican
Delta
JetBlueSouthwest
UnitedFrontier
AlaskaSpiritNetherlands
Netherlands
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USAUSACALL TO ACTION
Civil aviation authorities such as the Federal Aviation Administration, Transport Canada, UKCivil Aviation Authority, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency and Australia’s CivilAviation Safety Authority must begin fulfilling their regulatory obligations. The crisis in pilot
health must be publicly addressed by airlines and representing unions to restore flight safety towhat we once knew. The undersigned alliance of aviation and medical professionals represent
thousands of pilots at over 30 global airlines, along with over 17,000 physicians and medicalscientists, worldwide. We call for the following:•Where it exists, mandated COVID-19 vaccination for aviation workers must bediscontinued.

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A permissive environment for self-reporting needs to be reemphasized by regulators andairlines.
Thorough and objective aviation medical screenings of pilots and cabin crew need to bea high priority. These must be backed by the regulator and should focus on highprevalence harms which are now showing up in the general public and in our flightcrews.
Airlines and regulators hold data about sickness and medical certificate suspension,
including symptoms and causal reasons. This data should be analysed by independent
third parties to establish or rule out COVID-19 vaccination as a possible cause.

Greg Hill, Director
Free to Fly
CanadaJosh Yoder, President
US Freedom Flyers
USA

Philippe Pelletier, President
Navigants Libres
FranceMark Juch, Chairman
Luchtvaart Collectif
Netherlands

Alan Dana, Director
Aussie Freedom Flyers
Australia

Chantal Biolley, Co-founder
Airliners for Humanity
Switzerland

Mark Ready, Coordinator
UK Freedom Flyers
United Kingdom

Pete Chambers, LTC, DO
MC, FS, SF
US Special Ops Flight Surgeon

Richard Urso, MD, Director
Global Covid Summit
International Medical AllianceJane M. Orient, MD, Exec Director
Association of American Physiciansand Surgeons, USA

Dr. Claire Craig BM BCh, FRCPath,
Co-Chair, Health Advisory Recovery Team
United Kingdom

Steve Pelech, Ph.D,
Dept of Medicine, UBC
Director, Canadian Covid Care Alliance

Katarina Lindley, D.O, FACOFP
Cofounder, CAIM
International Ethics Commission

Dr. Elizabeth Evans
UK Medical Freedom Alliance
United Kingdom
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