Also screaming passengers.
Sadly yes, I am aware of that.
So many "if only" and "I wish" scenarios going through everyone's mind.
I feel so badly for those who lost their loved ones, friends and family members. All the children and the infants especially with no chance to become adults.......also makes one very angry and frustrated. None of this had to happen. It could have been handled differently if he had only been able to know/see/understand this and has gotten a deeper intervention of some sort. I don't know. Depression and mental/emotional issues are so difficult to make reason from, especially in someone that we do not know and do not even know exactly what his issues were and none of us are trained psychiatrists. Often people are also able to mask and hide what they are feeling experiencing to a great degree as well, until the time finally comes when they just cannot and snap. I just wish he had gotten some help before this, sought help or if he was given the option for help, taken it. I guess everyone is feeling this way right about now. Maybe everyone cannot be saved. Maybe everyone does not want help or is not in a state of mind to believe that things can get better, that their situation can change for the better and they hide what is going on internally. For them, they feel they have no hope and this is beyond sad. It's bad enough he decided to ruin/end his own life, but no one, for no reason on earth, has the right to make that decision for others. It's difficult to imagine such a state of mind that does not see/understand this in some way and has become that desperate/hopeless and spun out of control.
If he did indeed have some mental/emotional issues while still in school/flight training, I have questions about why he was then allowed to continue/return, if he was properly diagnosed at that time and if he got the proper help that he needed and if not, then why? Should he have been monitored/followed more closely during his career? What is the system in that the doctor did not report this final incident to his employer, if it was so serious that he had to be immediately grounded? It is apparent now, that he could not be trusted to report the grounding himself. So I also wonder what his doctor's culpability in this matter is and who he reported this to, if anyone or how quickly. I don't know what their checks and balances are, nor how they work. It is sounding more and more as though he should have not been allowed to be a commercial pilot in the first place or even have a medical cert to be able to fly. With how strict, heavily monitored, thorough and strenuous Lufthansa's training seems to be, I don't know why or how this one man slipped through the cracks. Lufthansa will need to answer for this and explain this to the families and in a court of law obviously.
On a side note, I have not watched one news outlet here in this country nor read one account in any American news outlet here on this incident. I have been only reading/watching German and French press entities and one UK source and I looked at one source in Spain. I have no idea with every single incident such as this, why so many here watch CNN or MSNBC or whatever and then complain for pages about how terrible the reporting is. Why this is anything new or surprising? It makes no sense to me. It's been my practice for many years to watch and read foreign press sources, foreign journalists and various foreign entities with credible websites 90% of the time. It usually leads to doing more research and learning more about a subject as well. I guess many people do what is convenient, but credible, factual/true, insightful, educated and non biased journalism/reporting, faded away in this nation decades ago. There are better sources and better choices available. We all have the same technology and should be using it.
Ya feel me?
