Antidepressants found at home of co-pilot Andreas LubitzBY: ELLIS WININGER

Situation Investigators have found antidepressants in the house of Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz. The Germanwings plane he was co-piloting crashed and killed the members on board. An unidentified investigator said that Lubitz suffered from a severe “psychosomatic illness”. Lubitz hid his illness from his employers and he had been declared unable to work by a doctor.

Things to Consider Lubitz did not tell anybody he worked with about his illness.

Lubitz went to a doctor for vision problems before the crash and the doctor noted he had psychological problems as well.

Lubitz passed the pilot recertification physical in the summer of 2014.

The physical only tests physical health and not psychological health.

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PromptPeople in the mass transportation system are being relied on heavily, thousands of people’s lives are put into their hands every day. With the recent occurrence of the Germanwings plane that crashed with a co-pilot that apparently was mentally unhealthy; defend, refute, or qualify the idea that the conductors of our subway systems, pilots of our planes, and the drivers of our public buses, should undergo a more detailed physical than the typical person in the workforce or not.

Works Cited Almasy, Steve, and Laura Smith-Spark. "Reports: Antidepressants Found at Home of Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz." CNN. 28 Mar. 2015. Web. 29 Mar. 2015. http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/28/europe/france-germanwings-plane-crash-main/index.html

2015. Photograph. “Details Emerge on Victims of Germanwings Flight 9525 Crash”. Wall Street Journal. 25 March 2015. Web. 29 March 2015.