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Germanwings crash: Pilot confidentiality 'should be relaxed'
French investigators have called for medical confidentiality to be relaxed for pilots, in the wake of last year's Germanwings disaster. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was urged by a doctor to attend psychiatric hospital weeks before he crashed the plane on 24 March 2015, but his employer was never alerted, their final report says. (www.bbc.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Medical issues that go unreported either by the physician or the patient (pilot) that can affect public safety has got to be a priority. The proof is in the articles of the pre meditated crash. Personally as the holder of a class 1 medical since 1972 I welcome open disclosure between my employer and the medical profession, there just isn't any other safe option!
Seems to me a bit of
a catch 22. Patient confidentiality meets reality. Both sides of the argument are valid. It's easy being a Monday morning quarterback in hindsight.
I actually agree but this has happened so many times it's not about hindsight as it is " in plain sight". Sometimes you better learn from what's happening around you or you become the problem.
It seems NEED TO KNOW ?
Again the need to know is never used. The Doctor should be made to contact any any Airline and release that type info about COMM/PILOT in a CONFIDENTIALLY as such cases without receiving any problems from Airline or Pilot involved.
This is not the first case and with the very slack system will not be the last so lets get behind the Doctors & companies and do something now.
CHEERS & FLY SAFE
Again the need to know is never used. The Doctor should be made to contact any any Airline and release that type info about COMM/PILOT in a CONFIDENTIALLY as such cases without receiving any problems from Airline or Pilot involved.
This is not the first case and with the very slack system will not be the last so lets get behind the Doctors & companies and do something now.
CHEERS & FLY SAFE
This is a crazy subject and hard to wrap your head around.