Lufthansa Germanwings airplane crash, scary and sad

[Karen]

There are some medical conditions which should be an immediate bar to performing certain jobs and activities. Someone dealing with depression SHOULD NOT be in charge of the lives of hundreds of others. Just because someone wants to do something doesn't mean that they should be able to do it. There are qualifiers for everything, and those qualifiers should be more strenuous when dealing with the safety of others.

Reality isn't the warm fuzzy we wish it was.

And that could very well explain his hesitation, he likely just spiraled down during the flight as people with Depression sometimes do, only this time, he was tragically in a position where hitting bottom cost not just his own life, but many, many others, if this what happened. Tragic, tragic tragic whatever the circumstances.

I know some wonderfully people with depression and bipolar disorder, and nearly all of them I have spoken to have had that thought at some point, and I am glad they survived to face another day.

[Catty1]

He did have a dr note so he wouldn't have to fly the day of the crash - and had such notes for other times - but destroyed them and continued to fly.

I wish his doctor and other medical professionals were required by law to report any such concerns to the employer, right away!

Too late for this horror.