NEWS: Pilot Vaccine Injury
One Canadian pilot formally awarded compensation for AZ-induced GBS. More pilot speak out about their post-jab troubles.
Canadian pilot & real estate agent, Ross Wightman, developed Guillain Barré Syndrome (GBS) due to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The Canadian Vaccine Injury Support Programme has recognised his injury and the causal link to the AZ vaccine. It awarded him a payout of an undisclosed sum that was below the scheme’s maximum of CAN$284,000.
B.C. man among first Canadians approved for COVID-19 vaccine injury payout
Three pilots featured in The Defender
Steven Hornsby, a 52-year-old pilot with a legacy passenger airline company, is also a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and Operation Enduring Freedom… is not flying today because, he said, he was “coerced … to get the COVID-19 vaccine,” and his employer “made it very clear that all employees would be required to get it and that medical/religious exemptions would be very difficult to get.”
It was only in December 2021, when his medical certification was due for renewal, that his aeromedical examiner (AME) advised him to wear a Holter monitor (a type of portable ECG) for one week to monitor his heart.
The following month, another cardiologist diagnosed Hornsby with vaccine-induced myocarditis.
Pilot injured by Moderna shot: ‘I have a family to feed’
…another pilot — currently flying for a commercial airline in the U.S. — who is experiencing such health difficulties.
The pilot, who spoke to The Defender on condition of anonymity, said:
“I was experiencing chest pain, usually at night, almost like somebody had their hand around my heart and was squeezing.
“Generally, [the pain] would subside during the day, but … would appear occasionally out of nowhere and I would need to lie down.
“It would manifest as pain, but also like something was lodged deep in my esophagus, like I had a piece of food or air that was pressing upon my chest area.”
According to the pilot, his symptoms “began about a week after the second Moderna vaccination.
He said the airline he works for threatened to terminate anyone who didn’t get the vaccine. “I have a family to feed, so I was left with little choice.”
Terminated after 19 years for refusing COVID shot, former Australian pilot advocates for others
Australia has a government-level vaccine mandate for airline crew and airport workers [that] went into effect on Nov. 15, 2021. Glen Waters is a former captain with Virgin Australia who is now a spokesman for a group of employees from the same airline.
According to Waters, “none of the pilots suffering from injuries are prepared to talk” because “the company is actively trying to terminate anyone reporting vaccine injury.”
Waters stated “there are several reasons injured pilots will not come forward,” including:
“There is a stigma attached to anti-vaccine sentiment in any form.
There is a reluctance on the part of the medical community to get involved with possible vaccine injuries.
Vaccine makers will actively fight against injury claims.
Insurance companies have distanced themselves from claims involving the vaccine.
Pilots don’t want to lose their medical certifications, jobs or careers.
Waters said of approximately 900 pilots flying with Virgin Australia, he is aware of nine who are no longer flying because of medical complications that could be linked to the vaccine.
Waters told The Defender:
“We have one captain [who had] a stroke and went blind, and another had a heart attack and fell down the boarding stairs after landing… There have been complaints of constant headaches and numerous reports of chest pains and shortness of breath… A number of cabin crew have reported pins and needles in their limbs, almost like electric shocks that persist for hours at a time. I have heard [about cases of] tinnitus, vertigo and brain fog, including temporary blindness, in several crew. Disrupted menstrual cycles are reported frequently, perhaps affecting dozens [of employees].”
However, according to Waters, perhaps due to the work environment, not all pilots are comfortable in stating openly that there may be a connection between their health difficulties and the vaccines.
Waters explained that Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority, similar to other such bodies globally, has “a 1% rule” for pilots: If they have a medical condition “that presents a greater than 1% chance of resulting in an incapacitation event within the next 12 months, then they are considered medically unfit to fly.”
Captain Bob Snow
The Highwire 30 minute interview with Captain Bob Snow.
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The Highwire 12 minute interview with Josh Yoder of US Freedom Flyers.
It's not enough below the scheme’s maximum of CAN$284,000. It should be at least one million dollars. We are talking about a life injury. Try to sue those crooks at the head of those companies. They will only understand that way.
I wonder if it's possible to sue personally Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It would be less arrogant the day that he would receive a subponea to appear in court an explain the ¨why¨ in front a lawyer!
Thank you for this roundup. It's ugly, but the information is valuable, as is the work you're doing.