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Training he interrupted flight training for treatment of depression and that was in the u.s. he would have had a u.s. medical certificate, and he didnt report in which he would have been required to do by law that he had been treated for this depression in the u.s. if that would have come under review his records of his treatment, his medications and all would have been known. so if he concealed that he was already committing a major criminal act by failing to report after this treatment. >> do ...

Caused concern. >> i would say we know from what weve heard about his flight training, he interrupted flight training for treatment of depression and that was in the u.s. he would have had a u.s. medical certificate, and he didnt report in which he would have been required to do by law that he had been treated for this depression in the u.s. if that would have come under review, his records of his treatment, his medications and all would have been known. so if he concealed that, he was already c...

Presumably as they were expected to act and required but it still seems like there were so many missed opportunities to stop this. do you agree with that? >> well, i mean, i think if your suspicion level gets to a point where you have an opportunity to protect others, then in fact, thats where confidentiality has to end. okay? so we actually have a responsibility if we feel that we can protect others or warn other ifs a threat has been made. >> dave, the more we learn about what the co-pilots do...

So do you see this as the substance in and of itself? or is this proof of him being motivated by some kind of madness? >> i think its obviously a madness. its starting to that we cant detect. see, this is where the problem is hes trying to reach out and do something, becomes a murderer to be famous. this is a stretch. this whole idea of the sight in the first place is just another indicator, symptom, of where he was headed with this. >> were looking for symptoms here we understand why he did it ...

Never told the airline about his struggles. should pilots be required to self-report? how do you make them self-report? well take a closer look. should be it about self-reporting in the first place? some answers from indiana on their new law. people ship all kinds of things. but what if that thing is a few hundred thousand doses of flu vaccine. that need to be kept at 41 degrees. while being shipped to a country where its 90 degrees. in the shade. sound hard? yeah. does that mean people in lao...

New information for you this morning, word of a motive in the flight 9525 crash. the german tabloid "bild" quotes a german investigator said andreas lubitz feared his medical issues could have ground him. the question is this policy of self-reporting is it getting it done? lets bring in cnn aviation analyst. former inspector general for the u.s. department of transportation mary sciavo and cnn safety analyst and former faa inspector, david soucie. david. i start with you, im not as moved. help m...

Need to go even deeper. when you want to be a pilot and you want to take the lives of that many people. this isnt just one flight. when you take a flight as a pilot. youre carrying not just those 150 people but maybe two or three times during the day you were doing that same thing. this is a very risky situation, its a public hazard theres no reason we should be digging into the records and making those records exposed. you cant hide behind hipaa in this situation. >> theyre hiding behind hipaa....

Anti-depressants and other medications they have not reported to the f.a.a. and clearly its a violation of the law. this is a tox screen on a dead person. there isnt thinking to do at that point. if there is an indication of the rates of not reporting among the living its high. when i was inspector general we did a push to try to clean up the pilot self-reporting. if you lie on that form its a felony. its a false statement to the government. we found for example pilots also didnt report drunk dr...

Some antidepressants, for example, including zoloft, then thats all right. if you function well, if youre cleared by a doctor. >> you have to self-report. >> you have to self-report. there is an incentive to self-reporting. if you dont self-report and those meds show up in your yearly blood work, then youre talking about suspension or fines. so there is an incentive. >> erin we should be relieved here in this country mr. lubitz would have never qualified to be an airline pilot in this country ri...

You know we are talking about before you guys were talking about, doctors informing the airline, the faa, a doctor who doesnt know the patient they are treating is a pilot isnt going to be able to report it. so if a pilot, in this case this guy is hiding his condition. if a pilot goes to a doctor doesnt tell the pilot, gets treatment for depression the doctor isnt going to know. >> every doctors appointment i have been to they ask me. >> exactly. if you are going to lie to your employer and you ...