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Questions. are you angry, suicidal? theyre not questions that -- >> once youre in and you go for your regular examination. nowhere are they sitting down and doing another full scale psychological evaluation. you rely on the person and the colleagues. you expect to glean something from a psychological profile as you go through your medical examination. >> gary do you say something awful happened here and thats terrible but it is what it is? its going to happen rarely and theres nothing that can b...

Remains the leading theory in the mysterious disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. in the u.s. new pilot applicants undergo rirgous background checks including a full psychological workup. former fbi agent and jetblue vice president ken maxwell. >> includes a mental evaluation and cant be evidence as a result of this exam any incidents of sighpsychosis or bi bipolar. >> reporter: in germany and in the u.s. once a pilot has the job, the yearly physical does not include a mental evaluatio...

Safety change. >> its a bitter irony. lets just say that change has worked. to the extent that the vulnerability of the pilots in the cockpit has now essentially gone to zero right? no one has been able to enter a cockpit door unless they are invited in. that is good. but we may need to mend some of the changes we put into place. the threats change this is a new kind of threat there are other things that can be done more psychological evaluation for pilots all of things weve been talking about t...

Candidate for the double transplant because they wont let him into this country. he needs to be evaluated at the mayo clinic. but the good news jose is that this morning i have been speaking to the department of homeland security, specifically u.s. citizenship and immigration services speaking to their media relations people, and they grabbed the bull by the horn and i hope they will process this humanitarian parole immediately today so we can get him up to rochester, minnesota and get that eval...

Officially for that break, and apparently had to go to psych evaluation before hired, but how do you go about looking at that now, the first thing i wonder are there other pilots out there now who may be doing the same thing, hiding illnesses, tearing up notes? >> listen i cant speak to that. i think that you know we have an isolated case here that involves one single pilot in europe who was on lufthansa, one of the best run airlines in the world. i think you will find probably people in every p...

There are confidentiality rules. in the united states if youre on medicine for a psychological issue, you have to be if i am not mistaken off that med for a year before the faa would clear you to fly again. but there is the self disclosure issue that is you know part of medical confidentiality issues and sometimes the two may run right up against each other. >> kitty, speak to that given it is an honor system to self report. will they start looking into other airlines how that can be changed kno...

Of a physical condition, but he did say that he was trying to hide it for quite a while, and also, the letters that were fou found, the sick letters were not just for the day that he was supposed to fly, but for several days as well. it seems as though this is not the first time that he was doing this, and destroying a sick letters that he was getting from the doctor. so he had been under care from a doctor for quite a while, and all of this unknown to his employer. i was able to speak to the ce...

Generally, the unions have health care providers that they would go to in these circumstances and they would direct the person to those health care providers for further evaluation. >> the system relying on co-workers and to a large extent the people themselves. a lot of people suggesting there need to be further screens. thanks for being with us. appreciate it. next is it now the wild west for terrorists? the exploding region-wide conflict in the middle east and this question. is the u.s. alr...

Pilots seem to have issue with them. he says there simply was no way for them to know that he might have been mentally unstable. he eluded to the fact that he believes this is a single case that was within a framework that is actuay working. that this was a single case that could not have been prevented by the safe forwards in place. i also squd whether or not maybe there system of evaluation was inadequate. he said, its been working for us for decades. he also said the airline is going to evalu...

Report folks they think might be having issues whether this or a psychological issue, whether they have problems at home or might be alcohol related issue. they say they have a system thats been in place and working in place. he also did acknowledge in this case this system clearly failed. lets listen to what he had to say. >> the pilot has passed all these tests, all medical exams. we have the reporting system where crews can report without being punished their own problems or problems of other...