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Old 30th Mar 2015, 21:33
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turker339
 
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The point that you seem to be having extreme difficulty in grasping, is that what is "deliberate" cannot be determined until a proper investigation has concluded. Therefore if you want the best flight safety system, the quid pro quo is that you must assume those involved are innocent until proven guilty.

Otherwise you compromise the whole reporting system.
Hence why its always noted that the purpose of an aircraft accident investigation is to find the root causes and not to dish out blame. Once you start blaming people the system turns against you next time you are doing an investigation, as those involved refrain from sharing information due to the fear that they will be assigned blame for the loss of life/craft.

So, truly the only way to prevent a recurrence is more rigorous psychiatric screening of flight deck personnel.
To what extent and how often? The thing with psychiatric issues is that it is too random to catch. A 45 year old pilot with no history of any such issues can snap and take his aircraft down with all souls on board as a result. Not very likely? Well consider how many pilots fly daily around the world on how many flights. How likely is it that GW or any other airline was going to go down due to the alleged suicide attempt? A very low likelihood in terms of probability. Maybe not as good as for someone with a history of mental issues but never-the-less too damn good odds to not inconvenience the 99.9% of pilots that fly just as frequently as the F/O did, break up with their girlfriends or get a divorce, etc. and don't feel the need to dive for the mountains with the plane they're commandeering with monthly sanity/stability tests for airline pilots.

As mentioned earlier, where does it stop? Psych evals before each flight?
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