Last month a Germanwings
flight departed from Barcelona, Spain with the intention to return to Germany was
found scattered among the French Alps. Among the 150 passengers aboard the plane
were Captain Sondenheimer, co-captain Lubitz (who happened to be flying), high
school exchange students and a pair of opera singers, just to name a few. On April
18, 2015, investigators claimed that Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed the
plane into the French Alps as an act of suicide. According to medical records,
Lubitz had suffered from severe depression for a number of years. The article begs
the question whether airline companies should have stricter screening methods
for their employees and obtain further access to pilot’s medical records. The
article also discusses matters of airline security and Lubitz’s prior medical
history leading up to the plane crash.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/world/europe/germanwings-plane-crash-andreas-lubitz-lufthansa-pilot-suicide.html?_r=0
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