Hew Jampton
25th Oct 2023, 17:01
From the East Anglian Daily Times:A pilot who booked an escort for a “girlfriend experience” has been jailed after stalking her when their relationship soured. Airline pilot Naveen Beefnah, 36, took the woman for a week’s holiday in Greece while paying for her company, Ipswich Crown Court (https://www.eadt.co.uk/topics/ipswich-crown-court/) heard. ......... Mr Wayne, mitigating, said his client has “struggled with depression now for some years”, worsened by his time in custody on remand.
I would have hoped that after the Germanwings crash, such a diagnosis would preclude being an airline pilot, at least temporarily.
Golfss
26th Oct 2023, 08:27
From the East Anglian Daily Times:A pilot who booked an escort for a “girlfriend experience” has been jailed after stalking her when their relationship soured. Airline pilot Naveen Beefnah, 36, took the woman for a week’s holiday in Greece while paying for her company, Ipswich Crown Court (https://www.eadt.co.uk/topics/ipswich-crown-court/) heard. ......... Mr Wayne, mitigating, said his client has “struggled with depression now for some years”, worsened by his time in custody on remand.
I would have hoped that after the Germanwings crash, such a diagnosis would preclude being an airline pilot, at least temporarily.
Having never experienced depression, it’s hard to put myself in such a position.
But depression is absolutely no excuse for stalking to whatever level it was in this case. Friends I know with clinical depression are absolutely nothing like this, it may not even be a factor, let alone the cause.
What about depression would make someone unsuitable completely in a flight deck? I think it’s complete lack of understanding to think blanket removing any every pilot from a flight deck who has a diagnosis. There are many factors, and each individual is different; but you can absolutely do the job effectively, I suspect there are a fair amount that do.