In the last 30 years the term "Depression" has come to mean anything from the down feeling you have, when your football team loses, to Paranoid Schizophrenia in the mental health field. It is probably not productive to paint everyone with Depression with the same brush when screening pilots and other professions where public safety is involved.
Rather than changing everything, the Airline Industry and it's regulators should start by finding out exactly what was wrong with Lubitz and why he "slipped through the cracks" and got a commercial pilots license. Then, they should decide what specific changes should be made to stop the specific type of instance of another Lubitz obtaining a license. This way, you minimize the chances of The Law of Unintended Consequences and a bureaucratic boondoggle rearing their ugly heads.
Last edited by Buzz Coil; 4th Apr 2015 at 04:52.
Reason: Added punctuation