Flight crew are obliged to undergo flight physical examination periodically by the Ministry of Transport. This examination must follow the flight physical examination manual that regulates standards of diagnosis for each organ disease, including acoustic and equilibrium sense. This article discusses the cases with disturbance of equilibrium and nystagmus. The subjects were 47 Japan Airlines (JAL) flight crew who were found to have either statoacoustic disorder or anamnesis in the physical examination. As a result, 19 cases were asymptomatic, and, in the other 28 cases, symptoms were recognized regardless of flight in most cases, although it happened during and after flight in some cases. A total of 8 cases were asymptomatic nystagmus. According to the standard of flight physical examination, flight crew who are found to exhibit a statoacoustic disorder must be scrutinized by electronystagmography (ENG), and if nystagmus is identified, the license will be suspended. However, it is a big loss of man-power to suspend from flight these crew who have no subjective symptoms and able to spend normal life.


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    Title :

    Unko Jomuin Ni Okeru Memai (Disturbance of Equilibrium on JAL Flight Crew)


    Contributors:
    T. Kato (author)

    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English