Posted on 03/28/2015 7:03:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sisteron, France • The father of one of the victims of last week's plane crash in the French Alps called Saturday for airlines to take greater care over pilots' welfare.
Prosecutors say they believe German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately slammed the Germanwings aircraft into a mountain, and that he hid an illness from his employers — including a sick note for the day of the crash.
"I believe the airlines should be more transparent and our finest pilots looked after properly," said Philip Bramley, of Hull in northern England. "We put our lives and our children's lives in their hands."
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The perp who murdered 150 innocent people is the REAL victim.
Lubitz’ family must be feeling a lot of guilt just now. Also the ex girlfriend.
As more and more people decide that God’s commandments and rules are just a bunch of BS, we are going to see more and more bull**** like this. In fact, the scum prowling the planet these days are trying to out do each other with who can come up with the most sickening, terrifying and horrendous act to cause the most human suffering and the idiots still believe the solution is to ban guns. ROTFLMAO! Morons!
What welfare? As far as I know airline pilots and school teachers are both the highest paid jobs in Germany (while both are still systematically striking for raises).
This idiot mass-murderer was probably making more than frau Merkel.
I would definitely like to know all I can about someone who was flying a plane full of passengers daily. I guess they don’t let things like medical or psychological episodes stop them from flying.
He was deceptive! What does that make the system?
Complicit? Or a victim of its own decisions and choices?
Only way to help him now is send an air conditioner to hell.
Pilot welfare my ass. How about the welfare of the passengers, you guilt-ridden failure of a parent.
If they really need to put more efforts into something it has to be to keep weirdos out of jobs like this.
Reports are that he had a small mountain of antidepressant meds in his apartment, so I’d say he was being well taken care of by a doctor.
Reports are also that he didn’t report any of his health issues to his employer, so how would they know enough to be able to help him?
Just chalk this up to distraught parents trying to make sense out of an inexplicable situation.
I agree re: the parents. I can’t imagine the grief I would feel if my kid did such a thing.
But I do wonder what the health care privacy laws are in Germany/Europe.
Can a doctor not inform an employer that there is a problem?
(Probably not here in the US...HIPPA)
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