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Is unexcusable but the last time something like that -- like this happened and the u.s. was an attempted suicide, in a fedex cargo plane and the crew overpowered pilot intent on suicide. so this doesn't happen very often but we haven't seen fit to impose mandatory periodic psychological testing other than the annual or semi-annual physical that airline pilots take. aviation medical examiners -- these are doctors. they are trained to recognize this but they're not psychiatrists. they're psychologists. and there is a self-reporting on that form where you talk about changes in life events and so ...

A role in the plane's disappearance. still, officials said that they conduct regular psychological tests over their air crews. >> that's something that we check yearly and every six months depending on their age and it's done through an interview with the aviation doctors. >> reporter: expressing growing frustration with a continuing lack of answers, hundreds of family members walked out of a meeting with airline officials in beijing in protest. >> we haven't seen any evidence of transparency or full confidence so far. >> so a new search area with multiple planes searching, should we be hopefu...

Pilot and co-pilot but he did talk about the psych evaluation policy and if it was followed, it would suggest that the cockpit crew was not only val waited but that their tests didn't indicate anything unusual. >> it's something that we check yearly and six monthly depending on how old they are on theirmed normally done through an interview with the aviation doctors. >> and we also learned that this testing is ongoing over the course of the pilot's career. what's not clear is when the pilots were last evaluated but my source is telling me and others here at cnn that there has been nothing foun...