Excellent points.

I would expect worker protections are stronger in Germany than in the US, but medical fitness is a huge deal for pilots. For obvious reasons.

Here's hoping companies everywhere, and not just in aviation, carefully look at the report when it comes out. When companies promote their exclusivity, status, etc., and work to get people who are willing to devote their lives to working there, those companies have responsibilities to the people to keep them safe, treat them respectfully, and understand that that the workers' economic and emotional investment is huge. Crushing peoples' psyche, even if objectively required for safety, shouldn't be done in a vacuum. People aren't disposable, and people who are responsible for hundreds of lives and millions of dollars worth of equipment and potentially billions of dollars in liability judgments, doubly so.

Tragic all around. I hope the correct lessons are learned.

Cheers,
Scott.

Our kultur long ago decided that it was OK--re every. one's. health, survival--to invoke the famous highwayman koan, Your money/or your life! {mofo.. implicit} Proliferation of tony knock-off clinics, all For-profit, with spoils going to the Eye-of-each-pyramid ..and a big ETC. is what we wrought, via accepting the ethics-free umbrella of the overriding vulture-nature of our capitalist national religion.

Statistics ain't got no ethics either: an acceptable #crashes/company/decade [or aircraft-model?] is the 'bar' which apportions the spending; decisions all made in the mentioned, wealthy-already Eye of the Org. As scoenye reminds, the 'amiss' undercurrent has already been there. Nobody has a nice model of a litmus test for those of whom Much is expected, [simply: Perfection] while Pay and equally-important Epaulets are withheld.. (in some cases, even decent food and shelter is not affordable): after you land that multi-$M machine with its multi-$B cargo-of-Liabilities. Many here have seen skits about the double, triple-bunking of crews of less-than-Iconic marques; corollary to each of these skits: how many of these Live sleep-deprived/thus WORK sleep-deprived? ..most working-days of any year. Have a nice/cheap/safe Flight; pick-any-two. (BONUS: If flights cost lots more.. and soon: there will be less lethal pollution/day too.)

So.. you know.. (right?) the Real-mofos, those who apportion via an early-inculcated Zero-sum concept of life-itself? will--even now, 3+ days after this kid Lost It!--see any next expenditures in terms reduced to two aspects:

1) We have to spend PR money Now! to sell reassurances/thus appearances that: we *will* 100%-spot any next clone {yaShure..}
2) Every dollar, Euro, Guilder of that comes directly out of my Second-Veyron piggy-bank, so we will-not overspend on the above.

(I labor here to withhold my feelings about the Master-Gamers of All systems; those who, currently control most actions that ever cost over a couple million zlotys, planetwide); all know that such-as-these give nary a Shit about the truthiness in yours, scoenye's remarks. They care-not a Shit even whether the planet can maintain, so long as they die-first with more Stuff than can be inventoried in a fortnight. (What do we always do, once a pestilence has been positively I.D.'d and the news finally penetrates avge-grade jelloware? Fingers crossed.)

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