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Originally Posted by DeanFL
This is all horrible turn of events, but:
- refreshing that details of this event were made public so quickly
- that the Lufthansa CEO faced the press shortly after the event
- some Carriers made the change to 2-in-cockpit so rapidly
- All Carriers have this potential risk and the industry must determine remedy
Unfortunately a 'remedy' will never be 100%, as a person hellbent on destruction will find a way.
And, the airline industry may limit liability by closing system holes -BUT- what about other transportation fields such as trains, buses, etc. If a crazed determined individual wants to go out with a flair and take multitudes with them...
Thankfully this pilot did not take the plane into a large building in France/Germany and multiply the angst.
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Thank heavens that people with the means and opportunity to do great damage to others never act on any idea to do so.
I will watch with interest if we ever find out why this man was driven to do this. There is a problem when talking about the mentally ill as there are millions of people fighting depression every day and who probably also have ideas of suicide. They never act on these though. And then there is the field of psychiatry itself. I wish that psychiatry were a more exact science. It still seems like more an art and also one which evil cliques can easily manipulate for their own nefarious ends. There does not seem to be an easy answers in all this. The abuse of psychiatry does happen in democratic countries but has been a huge problem in totalitarian ones where there are no checks and balances in place.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2800147/