Germanwings article

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Long read, but I liked this article..........

http://www.gq.com/story/germanwings-flight-9525-final-moments


Thought provoking for sure.

I knew Lufthansa/Germanwings did ab-initio training in Arizona at their own flight school. But I had no idea he lied on the FAA app about depression, *was* caught lying, and then "only" forced to provide more medical information and then cleared to fly. I have to say, I think the lawyers might actually be successful in pulling a lawsuit in AZ for a better payout for the victims.

 

[Stryker172]

Some of that was pretty brutal to read. Its shocking but not surprising to me how uncaring the airline was about it.

 

[Rocketman99]

As a sidenote, I like that German law that limits the amount of cash folks get from lawsuits. We need that here in the states. I'm sorry, but you don't deserve 10 million for your "pain and suffering."

 

[Max Power]

"David Foster Wallace's description of what he called the “psychotically depressed person” may come closest to capturing Lubitz's tortured psyche, the twisted soul of a man in the grips of unbearable pain. “The person in whom...invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill [himself], the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise,” Wallace wrote. “It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames.”

Very powerful statement in a tragic article. I cannot imagine the pain he suffered internally, but he didn't need to take all those people with him. Mental health needs more treatment and research. And we as pilots are held to a medical standard, how many people out there in what are safety sensitive positions suffer from this kind of mental anguish? How many of them have had these thoughts but not acted on them? What keeps them from doing it that didn't keep Lubitz from using an Airbus as killing tool?