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That in and of itself should have been a red flag. >> you reminded me about the program thats available to some pilots on a voluntary basis, if they want to be armed in the cockpit, they have to go through the program and be certified for it. god forbid there might be -- its for our safety but god forbid one of those people with a gun could be this man. >> let me tell you, theres an interesting -- the process to become and to volunteer to become a federal flight deck officer is pretty intense. y...

Did have a history of psychological problems that apparently we knew the company knew about. >> fred pleitgen in cologne, thank you so much. lets talk more about this with our expert panel. we have les abend, a cnn aviation analyst and the contributing editor for flight magazine. hes also a pilot. hes with us from new york. and we have clinical psychologist ramani josula joining us. les, this news that lufthansa actually knew about his depression in 2009 that he had come from training -- or from...

State. was he having hallucinations of some sort was he imagining things that were not there. thats sort of what that doctor that medical report was sort of alluding to here. again, we dont know for sure. we also know some of the medications he was taking, some of the side effects of the medications can be blurred vision. theres a lot of moving pieces here. but when it comes to psychosomatic, it basically means the mind is making up an illness or imagining an illness that does not exist, wolf. >...

>> theyve got to fix that im sure. justin you were saying earlier today, gate keeping, finding an applicant with illnesses like this co-pilot from getting into the cockpit, thats the most important part of the screening process. >> theres a couple of issues. one is as we just heard, is that theres a big difference between minor depression of depression that can be treated, and monitored by the flight surgeon, by the flight examiner and what apparently this young man had. this young man had some ...

Have to disclose if you attempted suicide. if you sought psychiatric help mental health professionals, along with all the physical things. whats important to understand is that if you dont disclose -- even drivers records have to be disclosed. if you dont, its a jeopardy event. you could lose your license, have your license suspended. there is some punitive aspect to it. but the screening process, as i mentioned before it seems to have failed him. it really seemed to have failed him. >> to that ...

Depression could be stigmatized in this case. but do you think in the case of flying where a pilot does have in their hands the lives of so many people that there should be more stringent oversight for people than maybe in other areas of employment? >> its a great question brianna. just to sort of backtrack a little bit about what the doctor was saying were looking at the depression more from the aspect of are we stigmatizing this individual. thats not my thing. my thing was the screening. its b...

Pilots. they have to qualify. they go through a rigorous screening process and on to the training aspect. if they were under their supervision at that point in time and he had these issues in my airline, we had to go through our screening process, release medical health professionals that we had seen over the past so many years. we had to go all the way back to our grandparents. so if they discovered a problem, i was no longer competitive for that particular airline as far as they were concerned...

He would have been obligated. its unlikely he was honest about having suicidal thoughts in the past. would you have felt comfortable with a pilot who was suicidal in the past? >> if they had treatment for it. they relaxed the rules and the doctor could go on that for more. they relaxed the rules for medication with depression. although before that individual pilot can go back to flight status they have to be monitored with how the medication takes effect. i wouldnt have any problem with that. my...

Was the ninth in line. >> until he is wedding day, alan must rely on letters to communicate with his fiancee. but before he opens his mail it must undergo a meticulous screening process. >> good morning, holman mail room. if it doesnt have dorm numbers, ais numbers, they cant have it. if it doesnt have a name on the return address, they cant have it. doesnt have a return address at all, they cant have it. theyre not allowed to have any kind of nude pictures. pictures that are sexually explicit. ...

Count, the chaplain said that i was the ninth in line. >> until he is wedding day, alan must rely on letters to communicate with his fiance. but before he opens his mail it must undergo a meticulous screening process. >> good morning, holman mail room. if it doesnt have dorm numbers ais numbers, they cant have it. doesnt have a name on the return address, they cant have it. doesnt have a return address at all, they cant have it. theyre not allowed to have any kind of nude pictures. pictures that...