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Old 28th Jun 2015, 10:35
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dsc810
 
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No @Whopity - if we find the unfortunate pilot was under medical supervision for some depressive type condition and was continuing to fly then the parallels will be exact.

The locked cockpit door issue of Germanwings is a diversionary side effect to the real issue that the copilot should never have been allowed to fly in the first place. The problem was that those who had the Copilot under medical supervision were not allowed to communicate this to those authorities who would have revoked his licence in a nano-second.

The medial situation in the UK is highly confused now with the varying levels of certification as I listed in my opening post and personally I'm not in favour of the BGA going back to the self-certification of previous times.

My GP for example has no idea that I am have a pilots licence though I hold a AME certified medical.
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