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If you will allow the biggest cock on the board (your words) a response, I actually said in my post that caused you such ire that "I was getting ahead of myself and needed to wait for the facts to emerge before judging". My speculation was I suppose trying to understand why an airline would...

First and foremost, I am sorry about your cousin and I can understand why you dislike that word. I would too. I am certain there are many undiagnosed people out there, but the problem for Lufthansa is that this co-pilot HAD been diagnosed. Letting him fly, effectively unaccompanied (as there...

If he did fly a plane with 149 people on it into a mountain (which is the consensus at the moment) then I think the use of the word nut-job is understandable. No doubt the families will be using stronger language. I am all in favour of people getting all the help they need to live their...

It looks like it. If so, Lufthansa are going to cop it. And the HR departments in all airlines around the world are now scrambling to check their pilots files.

The German newspaper Das Bild is saying that the co-pilot spend 18 months receiving psychiatric treatment, and had to repeat flying classes several times due to depression. Lufthansa has not commented.

Sorry posts crossed as it were.

Ah I see. So this override is in place to prevent a pilot getting back into the cockpit who is being c-oerced to do so.

That's what I was wondering. Eliminating one risk post 9-11 inadvertently created a new one?