A federal appeals court cleared the way for a lawsuit under Hawaii state disabled-rights law against Aloha Islandair, a passenger airline that declined to hire a pilot with vision in only one eye. In its opinion, the appellate court observed that it expected the complainant to win when he got back into state court, because the Federal Aviation Administration has not explicitly banned persons with monocular vision from flying airplanes. So long as it hasn't, the court suggested, airlines aren't allowed to make such requirements on their own.

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