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The last several years. this man, unfortunately, tragically fell through the cracks and yes, lets address the issue. and thats why it seems like the self reporting doesnt make any sense to me. i mean if youre talking about a line of work in which you are responsible for hundreds of lives, why would it -- would the onus be put on you know the pilot, the person whose responsibility it is to take care of these people when flying abroad or lolley why would the onus be put on that person to self repo...

Were told you have to self-report. if youre not feeling well. does that also include in youre flying with someone and that someone duntdoesnt seem right to you -- do you pause knowing that it may be difficult for them to take a note like that on their record? >> you self-report. but i remember a clear directive from the company saying if someone comes to work who looks like theyve been drinking all you have to do is say, the captain is sick, take him off the schedule. >> jay, thank you for your ...

Pilot beside him. >> in the initial assessment do they kaukt doctors to find out more or is it an in-house screening process? >> it is an in-house screening process in germany in particular there is strict rules about releasing medical records. typically what pilots do is ghie for their medical exam for flying to an aviation medical examiner and they have a separate doctor for the rest of thar lif their life. pilots like to have it that way. youre supposed to self-report, but if you self report ...

And koconsequences with not bei truthful on the medical form, but there is no way of knowing, really, how often that occurs p. i would say it is the minority of airmen who do not self-report things of that nature that are that serious. >> if you do not self-report, and if you do not comewa forwar with the truth, is there a safety net to detect it within the system? >> well -- thats a very good question. i think that the, the issue s that are placed on the pilot with respect to the $25,000 fine i...

Self-report something that was not caught in the tests, i was talking to the medical examiner about this, there is an extensive process when they go on the certain medications, because you are sidelined for six months for some situation, and then every three months more and more doctors to check on you as a pilot, and that steems to be a disincentive to self-report. >> well, certainly, it is, because now you have punishment, and it is punitive for you. >> and is it a big problem or outlier here?...

Cognitive ability, his quantitative ability, oral fluency, how well does he think in three-dimensional space, also a personality. so that was done some time ago. now, between the time that that occurred and the time that he crashed here there is not normally any other type of psychiatric evaluation. he did see a flight surgeon on a regular basis. all airline pilots do that. and if the german system is similar to the american system then he would be asked questions about whether he was suicidal a...

Nothing is followed up on like a marital or financial issue. its up to a pilot to self-report. if he or she doesnt self-report, what happens? >> if you dont self-report, its really gone unnoticed. typically what happens is, if you have an issue, one of your crew members might recognize something like that. >> reporter: the faa did not respond to our questions about the criticism of that system. some current and former pilots argue the rules dont need to be tightened. the vast majority of pilots ...

>> its absolutely possible. most psychological evaluations are simply a checklist. and a person will answer and the evaluator will look down to mark it on his paper, never looking to see what kind of body language, maybe the person withdraws or does something that gives you a clue that theres some sort of stress or anxiety in answering the question. >> reporter: another problem, pilots say the airlines dont check periodically to see if someone has come up in a pilots personal life that may lead ...

Anderson, this is really the honor system here in which you have to -- >> self-report. >> self-report, exactly. >> and david soucie, do you know more about the doctor situation? >> yes, two things. the point here is was this note issued by the faa-certified or excuse me the civil aviation certified doctors, and yes tashgs are administrators of the civil authorities, and so that the doctors that do the annual checks that, re neshgs e was mention ing mentioning, they do the tests. >> in the united...

From six weeks ago that i should go to work now. and until they were satisfied, i did not fly. but once i completed the exam and they had measured it all and decided that i was fit to fly, thats when they returned me to the schedule. >> but whats disturbing is that you were self-reporting. it was not something that they put on you, you reported this yourself. how does the public now have any assurances that there is a process that discovers this if you dont have someone as responsible as you tha...