Testing for dementia? In the history of Navy aviation is that the SOP for every navigational error made? And there probably is no medical issue, certainly no mention that he was confused or anything. It’ just a guy flying VFR in an area he was unfamiliar with.
Minor issue, and the system worked well to warn JFK traffic of a hazard. He will probably get some sort of the FAA equivalent of a traffic citation.
It doesn’t help that the article is poorly written and jumps around chronologically. But it does sound like he thought about landing at Kennedy, which seeing all the passenger jets should have signaled to him to veer away before getting that far.