[BRIEF NOTE] On how the Germanwings crash shows how much we depend on trust

[rfmcdpei]

The news today that the crash in the French Alps of Germanwings Flight 9525 was almost certainly caused intentionally by co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was the talk of much of the world today. News media around the world, and investigators in Europe, are already dissecting the life of one apparently normal young man who not only decided to kill himself

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[errolwi]

Good thinkings, thanks

[anonymous]

Back during the Reagan era at least one airline had a policy that two Fundamentalist Christians couldn't be polite and co-pilot of the same plane, in case they decided the Rapture had come and stopped flying. (Autopilots weren't as good back then.)

The 'two crew in cockpit' policies now being brought in are a good idea. Doesn't stop one from physically stopping the other preventing a suicide dive, but it's better than banging on a reinforced locked door…