Two Air Force F-22 Raptor pilots have taken the unprecedented action of
explaining thier refusal to fly the aircraft to a national television audience.
Appearing in uniform and without the permission of their superiors, Maj. Jeremy
Gordon and Capt. Joshua Wilson
told 60 Minutes interviewer Lesley Stahl they've
invoked federal military whistleblower protection in their open defiance of an
Air Force decision to keep flying the aircraft even though they say the majority
of pilots are suffering health problems because of something wrong with the
oxygen system. As
AVweb
has extensively reported, some, including both Wilson and Gordon, have
become disoriented in flight, something that happens at a rate that far exceeds
the norm for military aircraft. The officers say pilots have been issued
oxymeters and the Air Force briefly equipped the Raptors with charcoal filters
in the oxygen system to remove contaminants (the filters themselves caused some
pilots to cough up black mucus and have since been removed) but nothing has been
done to solve the actual problem.
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