More pilots than you might think have had suicidal thoughts
The culture of aviation is preventing pilots from being honest about their state of mind and thus allowing depression and other disorders to fester.
How would you feel about getting on a flight knowing that the pilot had been having suicidal thoughts? If you’re a regular passenger, you’ve probably already done it.
Few things in aviation evoke greater horror than the prospect of a pilot who deliberately flies a plane into the ground. That’s what happened, notoriously, with Germanwings Flight 9525 in 2015, when 150 were killed after the first officer locked the captain out of the cockpit and steered the plane into an Alpine mountain.
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