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3. As someone who flies a whole lot, I see the question in simple terms

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Sat Mar 28, 2015, 12:59 PM

Mar 2015

An airline has as much responsibility to guarantee the physical and mental health of their pilots as they do the perfect state of their engines.

Being lax in either one puts their passengers in mortal danger. As that means me, I maintain that the people responsible for the airworthiness of an aircraft are equally responsible for the physical and mental stability of the people who fly it. If they don't, they have no right to operate an airline.

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Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz �wanted to make everyone remember him� [View all] Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 OP

It's kind of tricky. Say you passed a law that mental health privacy did not apply to pilots, Nye Bevan Mar 2015 #1

Yes, very charged and vexed question, but as I opined elsewhere: Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #2

As someone who flies a whole lot, I see the question in simple terms DFW Mar 2015 #3