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Is unexcusable but the last time something like that -- like this happened and the u.s. was an attempted suicide, in a fedex cargo plane and the crew overpowered pilot intent on suicide. so this doesnt happen very often but we havent seen fit to impose mandatory periodic psychological testing other than the annual or semi-annual physical that airline pilots take. aviation medical examiners -- these are doctors. they are trained to recognize this but theyre not psychiatrists. theyre psychologists...

A role in the planes disappearance. still, officials said that they conduct regular psychological tests over their air crews. >> thats something that we check yearly and every six months depending on their age and its done through an interview with the aviation doctors. >> reporter: expressing growing frustration with a continuing lack of answers, hundreds of family members walked out of a meeting with airline officials in beijing in protest. >> we havent seen any evidence of transparency or ful...

Pilot and co-pilot but he did talk about the psych evaluation policy and if it was followed, it would suggest that the cockpit crew was not only val waited but that their tests didnt indicate anything unusual. >> its something that we check yearly and six monthly depending on how old they are on theirmed normally done through an interview with the aviation doctors. >> and we also learned that this testing is ongoing over the course of the pilots career. whats not clear is when the pilots were la...