Abstract
In the last ten years, there have been several accidents, some of them very serious due to airplane pilots showing psychological or psychopathological problems or obvious signs of distress. In this article, starting from the 24 March 2015 catastrophe, flight GWI18G operated by German wings with an airbus A320, carrying 150 people on board crashed into the foothills of the French Alps, offers various possibilities for evaluation and prevention. The proposals of the British Psychology Society for 2020 are also mentioned and the current possibilities of evaluation and verification are described, both psychological, medical and psychophysiological for an adequate prevention and cure.
Highlights
In the recent years, some aircraft accident seems to be caused by psychological imbalance of the pilot
On 24 March 2015, flight GWI18G operated by German wings with an airbus A320, carrying 150 people on board crashed in the foothills of the French Alps
The co-pilot deliberately set the autopilot to automatically descend to an altitude of 100 feet and thereafter, on several occasions during the descent, the co-pilot modified the autopilot setting to increase the speed of the airplane along the track, as confirmed by initial findings obtained from the Flight Data
Summary
Some aircraft accident seems to be caused by psychological imbalance of the pilot. On 24 March 2015, flight GWI18G operated by German wings with an airbus A320, carrying 150 people on board crashed in the foothills of the French Alps. It crashed after an eight-minute descent from 38,000 feet. The initial readout of the Cockpit Voice Recorder showed that the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked himself into the cockpit alone taking advantage of the temporary absence of the Pilot-inCommand (PiC), Patrick Sonderheimer, due to physiological needs. Lubitz was still alive until impact with the ground, so any temporary incapacitation due to physical causes is excluded
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