does it make this distinction in a criminal investigation, if the could pilot did it and he is dead does this remove any culpability from the airliner? how does this advance anything? well that s a great question fredricka. and i echo what will says with reference to this is just one phase of the investigation that is now complete. and i applaud the investigation team in the in the organized way they go about this. it s an example. anyhow i think to your question the problem stems from the initial screening process of this of this young man. i mean this is a friend of mine equated it to trying to get into harvard to qualify to get into this training program, which is a start from ground zero flight training program. somewhere along the line he was constantly supervised 250 hours worth of flight experience and simulator training all
there are levels of depression mild moderate where a pilot well treated, well medicated can still fly. i think what has to be looked at is why this guy self-reported. he self-reported because he was their flight training program. and under their flight training program, the pilot basically goes pays his own way. you know to his housing, his food. the airline prefinances the training. and when the pilot gets a contract with lufthansa, with germanwings, the pilot pays back pays the airline back for all the training. so there s a big incentive, i believe to self-report. no i believe there s a big insentive for the airline to get the pilot through training. the pilot had to take a break. the big question is why after this guy in the training was unable to finish it why he had to leave, why they let him back in the program, why they hired him after that and i think it has to do with the way the program is set up. mary all of this is
there s wonderful treatment available. this young man obviously took it 18 steps further in deciding to take the lives of 149 people. so let s make sure we differentiate that. les, to you on the point that we re now learning lufthansa had discovered this investigation. this goes back to when he was training. this goes back to 2009 and his flight training program. there s documentation he had a bout with severe depression. we also know that there was a lapse in his training. i don t know if it was directly a result of that or not. but wouldn t it be up to the airline down the road years later, lufthansa, you have to show all of your medical records. seeing therapists, eye exams, you name it it should be out there. it should be out there. as we know through this discussion over this horrific event, this is a lot of self-disclosure. the self-disclosures a s aaspect remember there s suicide you
has to use the bathroom or something like that. apparent apparently they don t have the same rules in europe but i think they will be established immediately. hi jon. it is andrea. what is the first thing you would be asking? i assume investigators going to the girlfriend and family members to ask about mental illness but what would you look at next? guest: i want to be a little reassuring to the viewers. a friend who flies more than i do said look at this. there is an avilation flight training program and you can start with zero hours and get on their payroll and they will pay you to be a pilot. he has 600 hours. i have more hours than that. in the united states people who want to be an airline pilot
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