Lufthansa proposes random psychological tests for pilots – El Universal (Venezuela)

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Friday May 22, 2015 8:50 a.m.

Frankfurt – random tests psychological health of the pilots could help reduce risks in the sector aviation, said Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr, in his first interview with a newspaper from the crash of Germanwings in March.

Daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Spohr on Friday quoted saying the tests were a surprising ability to reduce uncertainty about whether the pilots suffer some mental health problem, citing Reuters.

Voice recordings and flight details of Germanwings May 24 showed that the co-pilot Captain Andreas Lubitz left out of the cockpit and the plane crashed in the French Alps, which killed 150 people on board.

The motivations remain Lubitz a mystery. But he had told officials in a training school for Lufthansa in 2009 he suffered a period of severe depression and investigators discovered he had hidden recipes physicians who indicated that he could not work.

“Clues the reasons for the copilot could come out of a call psychological autopsy to be conducted as part of the ongoing investigation of the prosecutors, “Spohr said was quoted by FAZ.

A spokesman for Lufthansa said Spohr Random tests sought health proposing a team of experts to Germany after armed Germanwings accident.

The team aims to examine whether changes are needed to medical procedures and mechanisms to lock the cab door from the inside.

Spohr said that a consideration should also be if doctors aviation should be allowed to violate doctor-patient confidentiality in exceptional cases, according to the newspaper.