the previous record of depression? so remember that the lufthansa flight school is actually out in arizona, it s not in germany and the subsidiary is a self contained unit. so he complies drops out, tells them in this e-mail i ve had these mental problems. what i would guess is they ve never forwarded that on to luff tan sachlt they simply said to lufthansa, he s finished the flight school. he passed all the tests. he s qualified to fly. there is one other point. remember, this is lufthansa s airline. it s not to say you cut costs or hire people unqualified. but you are hiring the more junior, the more inexperienced, the more entry level kind of people. it s a cost cutting exercise to run a budgeted airline. inexperience and a pilot depression are two very different things. i think as a passenger, you have an expectation that the person in the cockpit would not suffer from adding that one person in the cockpit by himself.