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The article The Madness in our Methods: The crash of Germanwings flight 9525 and our broken aeromedical system covers this topic excellently. https://admiralcl

• matheusmoreira 3y ago
  > the doctors at Lufthansa’s aeromedical center denied his application on account of his ongoing major depression and medication thereof >the only solution was to ease off the medication > With help from his psychiatrist, Lubitz was eventually able to end treatment, and in July 2009 he was declared fully recovered. > After applying again, the Lufthansa aeromedical center decided to issue him a new medical certificate, but with strings attached: if he ever again suffered from depression, the document said, the certificate would immediately become invalid. Amazing. They basically got a severely depressed patient off his medication and told him they would ruin his childhood dream of flying should he ever suffer and seek treatment again. And then allowed him to fly a plane.