Originally Posted by
rvr1800
Why not? Hasn't been an issue for the over 100 years we've been doing this now. Maybe the Wright brothers had OSA?! We better start from scratch.
Two mesa pilots in a CRJ fell asleep, overshot one of the Hawaiian islands, headed out to sea and almost flamed out before they made it back to land. CA had OSA for sure, I believe that incident was the catalyst although the post-colgan fatigue studies probably played a role.
Also any of a number of fatigue-involved accidents might have been affected in the past. It's a reasonable suspicion, and can't be disproved.