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If you have Depression you should not fly a passenger plane. Simple as!
A large group of colleagues narrowly missed this flight. Terrifying.
FOR GOD’S SAKE, OPEN THE SILO DOOR! THEY’RE COMING FOR US! IT’S OUR ONLY WAY OUT! OH MY GOD, WE’RE DOOMED!
Aviation as a whole is really good at learning from incidents on a technical level, so that they never happen again. These days, even freak scenarios have a really high chance of being survivable.
On the human side, they've never been that quick. It took a long time for the industry to embrace stuff like Crew Resource Management (essentialy ways of working well together in the cockpit), avoiding steep hierarchies in the cockpit, and generally thinking more about mental overload or tendencies of human to get tunnel-visioned.
But the German Wings desaster seem to have finally shook up some people that threatening pilots with automatic career end if they get diagnosed with a mental illness will just lead to people flying with untreated mental illnesses.
I will never understand why someone so hell bent on harming themselves would also seek to take so many innocent lives with them.
What a miserable worthless scumbag. You want to kill yourself, don’t murder other people. Selfish grunt.
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It’s so hard to understand why he wanted to take everyone with him. The maliciousness required to deliberately murder a plane full of people that you have a duty of care to keep safe just defies belief. I’m sad for anyone who suffers with severe depression and battles suicidal thoughts, but this is a totally different story. There’s suffering from a mental illness, but this is evil intent.
To think that some flight companies still do no imply the rule of one cabin crew member sitting in when one pilot leaves the cockpit after this happened is absolutely crazy to me.
I struggle with mental health but I’m sorry you should never be able to become a pilot. Ever
The doctor was not allowed to tell the employer based on German law, it’s a real sensitive subject especially when that ends up in a case like this.
It’s not stewardesses, it’s flight attendants Simon. Where have you been for the past 25-30 years?
This guy was a monster
Remember this incident when people say don’t be afraid of people because they have mental problems…🤷♂️
Hi Mr Simon aka Fact Boi and proud father of Master Romulus and Miss (?) Remus ;),
I just had to acknowledge that the closing statement of your narration meant a great deal to me. I heard a lot of platitudes and recommendations given to depression sufferers and those with suicidal ideation – your statement “The world is better with you in it” really touched my heart and soul. When u said it, it was like I believed it, it felt good. Through all the haze of negative self talk and day to day life struggles over 25 year thank you for a glimpse of brightness and what felt like genuine care for the mentally unwell.
Thank you specifically to the writer, *TYLER* – wow thank you.! Looking forward to more of your work…
FYI Simon: the writer and editor’s information should be listed in the description??
– Especially for us vision impaired people (what do u reckon Blind Dave? u can explain for me by chewing Simons ear better than I could?)
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Nothing more cowardly than deliberately taking out the innocent in your own demise.🤬
so literally when this video was put up, I was at an appointment to see someone for help with my depression… and the last thing you said in the video hit me so hard that I'm about to cry….
Sheet – this was like a nightmare from hell
I shouldn't have watched this, my anxiety is shot. I think I'm gonna be sick, I rememberer this
As someone who's been struggling with severe depression for most of their life – the way this man chose to go out was incredibly pathetic. To forcefully drag so many innocent bystanders into his own issues was unimaginably selfish of him
They want more money for their dead loved ones.
This doesn't bring the back. Can you enjoy spending this money?
And can not fathem the logic on deeming him safe to fly when few mental patients are ever "cured".
They'll sto taking the meds, go back to the enviroment and havits that created the oroblem.
Then there's just, life
You explain this with a level of empathy I cannot explain 🙏🏻😔😔 such a shame but well explained
Not so sure about that last part
Man, that last sentence kinda hit.
The pilot was the neigbor of my boss back in 2015 ..crazy stuff . Complete german school class and so many people wiped out of existence. A catastrophy
We back
What if I knew my death was eminent and there was nothing I could do about it? I think I’d be alright with that Simon. You make it sound as if death is the worst thing that can happen to you.
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The desire to take others out with him is baffling.
I was on a Germanwings flight on this same morning travelling from Cologne to the UK, returning from my Stag Do. We saw this news when we landed and I just felt sick. We could have easily had this co-pilot on our flight. I’ve never liked flying, and things like this make me dislike flying even more.
Poor starfishes
"Hey if you ever get depressed again, we are taking your career from you forever. "
"Hopefully, we'll see" is really only chilling in hindsight. Otherwise its just a standard response to a remark, that didnt really need a response.
That said, I cant imagine the horror, all those poor ppl went through. I have struggled with among other things PTSD and depression through many years, but never once have I considered taking my own life. I am simply too stubborn to allow the demons to win. While I understand, that not every1 feels like that, I will never understand, why u would want to take others with u in death. Thats a whole other dimension of sickness, that doesnt go purely to depression.
The "Swiss cheese model" is something used in nuclear power in reference to safety systems. They call it "defense in depth".
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I saw this on the news when it happened. It kept being covered constantly for weeks and a bit more sparingly for months. It hit like a container ship stuffed with bricks, mainly because a lot of the plane was filled with German students on a school trip or something.
German Media was full of it at the time. I remember it so vividly because I was a student myself, living not far away from Haltern.. poor people, may they rest in peace.
This makes me wonder why decisions from other industries are not more widely applied. In this case, I refer to Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California (17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 (Cal. 1976)). In this case, a student seeking mental health assistance was treated by a counselor, to who he disclosed homicidal ideation regarding a specific person. The counselor did not notify the potential victim, and the student later murdered that person. The UC regents argued that to remove the privilege of confidentiality in treatment would adversely impact the mental health field. The CA Supreme Court disagreed, finding that the counselor and the UC Regents had an obligation to warn the potential victim. Over 30 US States now have similar laws on the books.
Something like this should have grounded the co-pilot until he was cleared (preferably by a panel of mental health professionals) to return to duty.