Posted on 04/01/2016 5:49:40 PM PDT by Auntie Mame
Relatives of the people killed when the German pilot Andreas Lubitz crashed a passenger jet into a French mountainside say Lufthansa should have done more to stop him flying after he was diagnosed with mental health problems.
Victims’ families say the French accident report released on Sunday failed to answer why Lubitz, who had been referred to a psychiatric clinic two weeks before the tragedy last March, was able to hide his illness from his employers.
And they are angry that doctors, who confirmed Lubitz had “shown symptoms suggesting a psychotic depressive episode” just weeks before the crash, refused to speak to investigators, citing patient confidentiality.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The parents of one of the murdered passengers are suing the suburban Phoenix airline training center (probably among other defendants) a company which Lufthansa outsourced its flight training and where Lubitz went for training claiming they "knew that Lubitz suffered [from] mental illness and declared Lubitz 'unflyable.'"
The Courthouse News Service article mentions Lubitz's mental problems saying: "Lubitz made several 'no suicide' pacts with his treating psychiatrist, was hospitalized and took the anti-depressants: Cipralex and Mirtazapin," the lawsuit states.
According to the recent news articles Lubitz's vision began to be blurry and he went to many many doctors about it but they all said his vision was fine. Interestingly, side effects of the medications he was taking are blurry vision as well as insomnia, which the news reports say he was also experiencing.
I wish the guy had taken some pills or jumped off a building instead of taking 200 innocent people with him.
If this had been a U.S. civilian pilot, would his physician’s remove him from flight duty?
He was a gay man who loved to fly to San Francisco a lot and he hung around a mosque near his home.
Nothing to see here!
I looked up both of the drugs which the article says he was taking and they both have side effects of vision problems and insomnia. This guy was complaining of insomnia and blurry vision. One of the articles said he had been to something like 20 doctors in the last year of his life, most of them opthamologists because the vision thing was really bothering him.
It’s incomprehensible that a mentally ill man like this could be allowed to fly airplanes. How many other pilots taking psychotropic meds are out there flying?
“I wish the guy had taken some pills or jumped off a building instead of taking 200 innocent people with him.”
The Germanwings victims are additional victims of 9/11.
Had cockpit doors not have been reinforced after 9/11 the caption of the Germawings plane may have been able to get onto the flightdeck and prevented the crash.
If it was his doctor that gave him his medical for flight, the answer is yes, he would have been denied his medical. If he was seeing another doctor for medical issues the answer is no. Patient confidentiality is the problem.
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