{"id":429226,"date":"2026-05-16T14:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/pilots-killed-crashes-impairing-drugs-ntsb\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:31:13","slug":"nearly-1-in-3-pilots-killed-in-crashes-had-impairing-drugs-and-its-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=429226","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1 In 3 Pilots Killed In Crashes Had Impairing Drugs \u2013 And It&#8217;s Getting Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ntsb\/\" >National Transportation Safety Board<\/a> (<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258162\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ntsb\/\"  >NTSB<\/a><\/span>) has identified the continued increase in the presence of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"190889\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/drugs\/\"  >drugs<\/a><\/span> when testing fatally injured pilots. The study shows that close to a third of all pilots tested were on potentially <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/drugs\/\" >impairing drugs<\/a> and operating in potentially impairing conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alarming trend shows a continued increase in drug use among aviation professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,3085,476,5968,421,629,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-accident","category-airlines","category-drugs","category-ntsb","category-pilots","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429231,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429226\/revisions\/429231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}