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4. Individuals whose permanent mental or physical condition, as a result of disability incurred in the course of employment as a pilot, is such that they are unable to engage in any regular employment.

5. Individuals whose permanent physical or mental condition is such that they are unable to engage in any regular employment and who (i) have an employment relation to the air transport industry at the time of becoming disabled and (ii) have completed five years of service, or (iii) have attained the age of fifty.

6. Individuals whose permanent physical or mental condition is such that they are unable to engage in any regular employment, and who (i) have completed ten years of service, or (ii) have attained the age of fifty-five.

7. Individuals who will have attained the age of fifty, but the annuity of such an individual, shall be reduced by one-one hundred eightieth for each calendar month that he is under age sixty when his annuity begins to accrue.

(b) Any disability incurred while a pilot is on duty, or while returning to his home station from duty, or while traveling under orders from the employer, and any disability incurred while a pilot is on property of the employer shall, for the purposes of paragraphs 3 and 4 of sub-section (a), be deemed to arise in the course of employment as a pilot, unless it is shown by affirmative evidence that the disability was caused solely by the action of a person or persons in no way responsible to the employer and that the incurrence of the disability was wholly unrelated to the fact of employment; and any disability which is otherwise reasonable related to the fact of employment as a pilot shall be deemed to arise in the course of the pilot irrespective of where it was incurred and irrespective of any employer's, pilot's, fellow servant's or any other person's fault, negligence, contributory  negligence, gross negligence, recklessness, or any other misconduct, willful or negligent which is self-inflicted by a pilot for the purpose of becoming eligible for an annuity under this title.

(c) An individual who will have been deemed either to be disabled for work as a pilot pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3 of subsection (a), or to be unable to engage in any regular employment pursuant to paragraphs 4, 5, and 6 of subsection (a), shall be deemed to have recovered from such disability (1) at the end of the month preceding that in which he returns to active service as a pilot, or (ii) at the end of the month in which he will have been notified by his employer, and permitted by the appropriate agency of the United States  Government, to return to work as a pilot.

(d) Such satisfactory proof shall be made from time to time as prescribed by the Board, of the disability provided for in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of subsection (a) and of the continuance of such disability until the pilot attains the age of sixty. If the pilot fails to comply with the requirements prescribed by the Board as to proof of the continuance of the disability until he attains the age of sixty years, his right to an annuity by reason of such disability shall, except for good cause

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