In your scary story of the day, JetBlue is being reprimanded by the FAA for making lab rats out of unsuspecting passengers. Currently, the FAA bars pilots from shifts longer than eight hours. JetBlue, hoping to upend the consensus that such lengths decrease alertness and mental acuity, began outfitting certain pilots with devices meant to determine alertness, and having them fly 10 or 11 hour shifts at a time. While piloting planes full of people. Doesn't sound too bad, but if the ticket counter had informed the passengers that the pilot was undergoing tests to see whether an extended workday would wear him out and degrade his fitness, there'd have likely been quite a few passengers waiting for that next flight.
