germanwings How to Get Pilots to Admit They Suffer From Mental...

Yesterday, the New York Times and other outlets reported that Andreas Lubitz, the copilot suspected of crashing Germanwings Flight 9525 into the French Alps last week, had disclosed his struggles with severe depression to Lufthansa, Germanwings' parent company, in 2009. The news contradicts earlier rumors that Lubitz had hid his condition from his employer, and it highlights one of the biggest questions animating post-crash coverage: How can airlines and aviation authorities keep dangerous pilots like Lubitz out of the cockpit? Lubitz's act wasn't the first of its kind: There have been six intentional crashes of commercial flights since 1976, according to Newsweek , most famously EgyptAir Flight 990 in 1999 .



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