ANOTHER PLANE CRASH

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LC would/does totally approve of HotD. This I know. She always brought news reports/actual facts (and acknowledged suppositions too).

Enough acknowledging HotD. She's a cunt but a pretty good cunt, I guess.
Nobody seems to be willing to talk much about his mental health status. Slippery slope IMO. Where do rights of privacy end? Airline pilots? Train operators? Bus/taxi drivers? Ferry operators?

From what I understand HAD the guy self reported, the repercussions on his career might have been enormous. There's pretty much a disincentive in place, in any professional capacity, to self report mental health problems. Not like it's going to fast track you to promotion or a raise or anything.

You bring up a good point....I think we have all filled out job applications where they ask if you suffer from depression, anxiety, etc... Not too many years ago, and still today, I guess, this would or could compromise your job.
When I think back to the main jobs I had during my working life, I wouldn't have reported anything having to do with emotional/psychological health for fear of losing my job. So, even if you were suffering from a mental illness of some type, you are probably going to hide it from everyone. However, someone who has severe depression usually displays enough symptoms that someone, a friend, a parent, co worker, etc. would notice something..and maybe they did, but you usually don't want to rock the boat and don't realize the possible repercussions of not saying anything. It would certainly be the death knoll of a pilot to self report depression or some other mental health issue...

Yeah. I don't know if it's just Lufthansa's policies or aviation wide but I heard, roughly, that you report something like that, you're immediately put on leave for months (not sure what portion of your pay you might receive during that period) and then subjecting yourself to Drs. reports every few months thereafter for a time. The policies sounded like a death knell for a career so damned if you do....