Pilot health problems reported to be on the radical rise - proofs Topic starter: I installed ((https://bit.ly/3GREUNy)) an app some months ago, which gives a push message when an aircraft squawks 7700. The first time it happened, I thought the plane was about to crash, but fortunately nothing happened. However, within the last months, I got a lot of notifications, maybe a few a week or so. I'm wondering, why there are so many emergency alerts? I've read about possible reasons (https://bit.ly/3GZFOHG) for 7700 squawks and they seem to be manifold. Isn't the purpose of an emergency call to be used only in really critical scenarios? How is an aircraft going down to be differentiated from one carrying a sick passenger? Are there any plans in the industry to change the current system? Answer: This was real easy to fact check, it is legit I have fact checked this, it is legit (https://bit.ly/3qJmCsg). In-flight emergency sqwaks, (sqwak 7700) have indeed increased by about 124X (12,400 percent) since the vax (https://bit.ly/3Ku0mu3). Gosh, that matches the previous percentage increase of pilot deaths too. Pretty soon we are going to start having planes with both pilot and co-pilot disabled. A while ago I posted a list of all the commercial pilot deaths post. Answer: But was VERY EASY to confirm. I frequently look at flightradar24 so I suspected this was legit and sure enough, there really are that many planes declaring emergencies. I did not know how many was normal, so I looked for precedent and found it. Normally there really are only a few sqwaks per month, here is a post from six years ago where a pilot is wondering why there were suddenly 1-4 per week.