Originally Posted by
Machinbird
That is my opinion as well.
I may have missed it, but the accident report doesn't seem to cover the pilot's actions on the day of the accident leading up to the flight in great detail, specifically, when he ate, what he ate and how much time elapsed subsequently.
This can have a bearing on hypoglycemic events that some people will have a predisposition for.
I remember an interesting case of an F-8 wingman joining on the lead aircraft after takeoff from NAS Miramar, when he went blind during the rendezvous! Fortunately the lead got him in sight quickly and gave voice commands which he was able to follow. After a while, his vision began coming back and the aircraft was recovered into the arresting gear at NAS Miramar. The sawbones blamed the problem on hypoglycemia resulting from a coffee and donut fighter pilot breakfast.
Your body has glucose stored as glycogen-if you are short of glucose, glycogen gets converted to glucose as your body obviously needs the glucose for energy. Glucose levels in non diabetic patients are well regulated by the body and carefully controlled in a narrow band.
It would be a highly unlikely scenario that a pilot with an appropriate medical category to fly a fast jet would become hypoglycaemic in the cockpit during a display.