Thing is, why should it end his career because he had an episode in 2009. Wouldn't that just encourage people not to report it, or seek treatment. Shouldn't we, as a society, be more compassionate to people who are sick, and rather than punish them for being sick actively come togeather to support them. Surely the most that should ever happen is someone is given an extended sick leave, full pay, until they can resume or offered some form of retirement package.

Its hard enough for people with mental health problems to get jobs, without sacking them when they do. As someone who suffers from clincial depression, the stigma in interviews and employment is such that generally your options are benefits, or don't tell.

No doctor should be allowed to break patient confidentiality agreement, unless there is a clear and present risk to someone. Otherwise people will cease to seek treatement, and treatment becomes less effective as the patient will not be capable of confidence in confiding which would render treatment ineffective.

Its a fact of life, people with health problems will be found in all walks of life. The question really should be, not how do we prevent them getting the jobs, but how do we prevent their suffering in the first place.

That's a pretty insightful view of depressive illness and the potential effect on employment. Sufferers from depression are not necessarily, or indeed usually, suicidal. Doctors in England are required to report conditions that have safety implications (such as to the DVLA), but this would not normally include a moderate to severe depressive episode.

In fairness Gunther is probably more adept at struggling in the cockpit.

Would that be because the plane hit the ground at flight speed, where as if it broke up or lost power, it would hit at terminal velocity (450 odd mph as opposed to around 180).

My morbid curiosity has kicked in, and so I've texted my friend, who's company specialise in Forensic retrival and have an air crash expert. Usually bombs on planes are fairly small, and a falling object generally decellerated or accellerates to around 180mph regardless of height, so a plane would hit the ground without power, if it was decending from sufficent height at around that speed.

Where as an object strikes the ground under power, it strikes with a much larger impact velocity and force (ie at the speed at which its engines are propelling it).

Thing is, why should it end his career because he had an episode in 2009. Wouldn't that just encourage people not to report it, or seek treatment. Shouldn't we, as a society, be more compassionate to people who are sick, and rather than punish them for being sick actively come togeather to support them. Surely the most that should ever happen is someone is given an extended sick leave, full pay, until they can resume or offered some form of retirement package.

Its hard enough for people with mental health problems to get jobs, without sacking them when they do. As someone who suffers from clincial depression, the stigma in interviews and employment is such that generally your options are benefits, or don't tell.

No doctor should be allowed to break patient confidentiality agreement, unless there is a clear and present risk to someone. Otherwise people will cease to seek treatement, and treatment becomes less effective as the patient will not be capable of confidence in confiding which would render treatment ineffective.

Its a fact of life, people with health problems will be found in all walks of life. The question really should be, not how do we prevent them getting the jobs, but how do we prevent their suffering in the first place.