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Debate on here will go round in circles - he's a 'nutjob', 'evil' or 'suffering from an acute mental illness' depending on your viewpoint (or a combination of the three). Certainly incapable of thinking straight. Whatever your view, still think the really key issue is why he wasn't stopped...

Not sure there is any conspiracy theory here, just a wish on the part of some to understand what demons might have driven him to do it. The thought of all the passengers knowing what was going to happen for several minutes beforehand is just awful.

There are other instances : http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/26/travel/germanwings-crash-death-by-pilot-cases/

You said 'If YOU'VE ever.........'. Meaning the reader. Nothing at all wrong with you having that view at all but you can't tell other people how to feel.

Unless of course they committed suicide due to depresssion......then you may have a different perspective. Please don't claim to speak for everyone.

No....partly explains perhaps, not excuses.....

Yup, that.

Usually a bit more than very unhappy, but yes it can. http://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/major-depression?page=2

Feeling depressed can be a normal human emotion. Clinical depression isn't.

Still struggling to understand how my GP can withdraw my driving licence, but there is no process for him to advise the CAA or whoever that I am not fit to fly a plane.

Interesting and apparently clear polarisation of views on this thread. He was evil, full stop, or he was suffering from some kind of mental illness which might have caused him to act irrationally (doesn't excuse it, or make it any better, but might at least help explain it). Absent any clear...

I bow to your superior knowledge of mental illness.

You can't pick the most notorious cases to prove a point which at this stage isn't provable, or compare one moment of madness (if that's what it was) with a sustained campaign of evilness executed over many years.

Could be evil, could be very ill........or a degree of both. Did he have a mental illness that impacted his ability to think remotely rationally ? If so, should or could this have been recognised by others ? Did something unexpected flip in his mind during that flight or was it premeditated ? We...

Docs should have the right to withdraw capacity to fly for pilots in the same way they can for drivers.

Spot on

Ain't that the truth.........

Good point. In this case if BOTH pilots had been locked outside for a while this wouldn't have happened.

Too close to home for me on a number of levels. I don't like the 'murder' allegations being bandied about either - although can understand the reaction and strength of feeling. It's just desperate for everyone concerned. So sad.

Possibly, although it was the doctor who told my dad not to drive, and who informed the DVLA under a duty he apparently has. I would have thought that a similar setup for, in this case, the guys doctor to advise the authorities could be in place.