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Professions? heres cnns dan simon. >> reporter: are you safe when you get into a plane, taxi bus, train, or ferry? thats the question millions of people are asking after finding out that andreas lubitz was suicidal. should there be regular psychological screening? >> i think that we tend in america to do this with every crisis that you want the absolute fix that will prevent anything like that ever happening again. >> dr. jack win brunetti is a senior aviation medical examiner she said she under...

9525 had suicidal tendencies and underwent psychotherapy before he became a pilot. thats coming from a spokesman from the prosecutors office in dusseldorf, germany. but there is no evidence that he was suicidal immediately before last weeks crash. and prosecutors also say that lubitz recently sought treatment for a vision problem as well. >> yeah. doctors say that was psychosomatic. >> reporter: there have long been signs of trouble. as recently as this february and again this month, co-pilot ...

Details tonight about the mental health of the co-pilot authorities say deliberately crashed flight 9525 into the alps. while investigators say the boxes of evidence they removed from his apartment and from his parents house have yet to reveal a motive, other clues are surfacing. it suggests he may have been struggling with psychological issues for years. heres randi kaye. >> reporter: there have long been signs of trouble. as recently as this february, and again this month, co-pilot andreas lub...

The most deaths in u.s. history. they were actually seeking the most deaths because that would get them more fame. i think we have the same kind of thing here. >> erin i want to ask about the vision problems. he went to an eye doctor who told him it was psycho somatic. do you think that was a cry for help? >> its very possible. we have to keep in mind we are hearing a lot of this through leaks to the media, through out of context reports. so without knowing the specifics of what he reported to t...

As we said there are new details tonight about the mental health of the co-pilot authorities say deliberately crashed flight 9525 into the alps. the box of evidence they removed from his apartment and his parents house have yet to reveal a motive. it suggests he may have have been struggling with psychological issues for years. heres randi kaye. >> reporter: there have long been signs of trouble. as recently as this february and again this month, co-pilot andreas lubitz had visited a clinic in d...

Doesnt want to be handcuffed is not an easy task. the officers were holding down his shoulders, they were holding down his legs so he couldnt kick them, and, finally, they were able to get him handcuffed. >> anthony thomas is finally subdued and cuffed and taken to the lorain county jail. >> mr. thomas came into the department on a contempt-of- court charge, which is a low-grade misdemeanor. he left our department with a felony assaulting an officer charge. all when he was going to be released o...

>> i have a problem with the authorities at lufthansa that they didnt do their own mental evaluation mental and physical evaluation. this is a 650 hour pilot. they brought him on in my opinion with too little vetting. for one point, he should have been in other aircraft smaller aircraft to prove himself before being placed in the right seat of an airliner. >> jay, talk to me i dont think even in the united states once you become a pilot, you have to get a yearly medical checkup, doesnt include p...

Moment aagoago. this is in todays "new york times." it points out that they are taking a good hard look at this and says the crash of germanwings flight 9525 raised questions about how the policies to safeguard against pilots who have had mental illness are behind the controls or not, whether those policies work and airlines and regulators are doing enough to detect pilots too mentally ill to fly. are you concerned this coverage is somehow getting ahead because it looks like people making the de...

Conflict and it kind of comes down to the practitioners evaluation of how dangerous this guy was. sounds like he didnt think this individual this co-pilot was suicidal obviously. but, yeah theres laws on the books in germany that permit the doctor to contact the employer and even the police. >> obviously as we just explored no easy answers to any of this. it is judgment calls across the board. fred pleitken and allen deuhl, thank you so much. coming up house speaker john boehner talks to us ex...

Mental health care provider for a similar evaluation mentally. youre putting a human being, a pilot, a crew member, into a locked vault now behind these secure cockpit door at the hands of in this case a machine that weighed 200,000 pounds plus with people behind. it seems reasonable to me in todays day and age for these people to be psychologically evaluated with regularity. >> well, that certainly may have prevented this tragedy. were also learning that he said to his girlfriend, i will be rem...