Posted on 03/27/2015 12:14:59 PM PDT by wtd
"Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was hiding an illness from his employers and had been declared unfit to work by a doctor, according to German authorities investigating what could have prompted the seemingly competent and stable pilot to steer his jetliner into a French mountain.
Investigators found a letter saying that Lubitz, 27, wasn't fit to do his job in the waste bin of his Dusseldorf, Germany, apartment, city prosecutor Christoph Kumpa said Friday. The note, Kumpa said, had been "slashed."
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Very sad.
I guess the doctor was correct..
Somebody’s gonna get sued.
So the doctor sent the note that said Lubitz wasn’t fit to work as an airline pilot to Lubitz and not to the airline?
Now wait a minute - a doctor legitimately found this young man unfit for his job, due to mental instability. . .and they informed the mentally unstable man in writing that he was going to lose his job, but never informed the employer? I’m not buying it. . .something fishy there.
I guess from now on they will allow medical professionals to speak to airlines if a patient is unfit. At least in Germany. Here, that would be a huge break of HIIPA.
I don’t know but maybe the doctor was prevented from notifying the employer because of german privacy laws
I wonder if he was depressed because he had recently converted to Islam, or converted to Islam because he was depressed. (Going by the earlier German reports.)
It would be helpful to know what the illness was. If it was psychological, it makes more sense. If it was physical, it would be a bit harder to understand.
If his parents knew that he was nuts and didn’t turn him in, they have blood on their hands and should be tried and convicted. So many people lost part of their families because of this man who knew he was unfit to fly.
By the time the lawyers get through with that airline it’ll be toast.
How did that work out?
I concur. There seems to be information either voluntarily or involuntarily omitted. I am going to wait for further information before I commit to a belief over this.
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If not depression, was he schizophrenic? Given his initial bout with 'burn out' six years earlier, it seems to fit the typical age pattern of onset.
OR maybe the employer WAS notified and negligently did not address the problem. My longtime friend, a female pilot, flew commercial jets most of her adult life. She managed and flew a plane for a pretty high profile guy. She made a pretty bad decision in her marriage and was having a hard time, she mentioned it during a flight to her co-pilot, how upset she was. Well, after twenty years, she lost her job. He reported her to the FAA, who immediately contacted her employer. She was fine, not suicidal but the co-pilot wtook advantage of a situation and got her job.
I wonder how many of the other Germanwings pilots knew about it?
I imagine this case will trigger modifications to any regulations, rules, laws involved
If the company had sent him to the hospital and paid for the testing, they would own the report written by the doctor and it would have been sent to the company and not to him.
If he went on his own to the hospital, the report would be sent to him, not the company.
I did psychological evaluations for many years, including for Social Security Administration and Texas Rehab. They paid for the testing so the report went to them, not the patient.
Either a doctor or an airline executive or both needs to be tarred and feathered.
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