Pilots

[breadstick]

In view of the tragic news i was wondering are pilots assessed on a regular basis for any problems they might be having in their personal lives or depression for example?

[delboy3]

Discussed in earlier thread:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1409269.html

Seems that if they are assessed as being potentially unstable, they lose their jobs - and quite rightly so!

[vakayu]

I am afraid as said on other thread it will dissuade anyone from asking for help?

[bazwillrun]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32075809

[TWR]

I think it will now Bread, I doubt this will ever happen again.

[Gromit]

Only guessing, but I reckon he had a grudge against his employer. It was not just a suicide but an attempt to damage the asset (a multi million pound plane) and the reputation of the carrier. It might be something as simple as a dispute over shifts or money that made him do something really irrational.

[TWR]

No matter what issues he had Gromit, he should not have taken other people him.

[Gromit]

Not making excuses.
Trying to work out why he didn't jump in front of a train and instead slammed a jet into a mountain.

[andy-hughes]

Gromit - //Not making excuses.
Trying to work out why he didn't jump in front of a train and instead slammed a jet into a mountain.//

That is rational thought - I will kill myself and cause minimal pain and upset to everyone around me.

But suicide is not a rational act. The man may have decided right then and there that it was time to end the suffering, and he would not have thought about the other people on the plane.

We always try and apply rational reasons to such dreadful actions, but we shouldn't because it is a futile exercise.