Statistikhengst
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We can learn from all sorts of things.Let's face it.No 1 has already been explained:
Pilots AND cabin crew have the code to unlock the cockpit. Only, a person inside the cockpit can lock that code out for a time period of 5 minutes, ergo, Lubitz locked out the attempt to give a code at least twice.
I think that is a very bad policy.
I would think the pilot of the airplane would have an override ability.
Dumb.
You mean a pilot outside of the cockpit?
Hmmm, for this very reason, they have that system, to keep a terrorist from forcing a pilot or co-pilot from entering the code. The negation of such a code from the inside would be the method of last resort. Apparently, no one ever thought that a co-pilot might want to use the "negate" method to commit suicide/multiple homocide.
Nothing can stop a person intent on murder or suicide, if they are dedicated.
Apparently this guy was just waiting for the right moment.
Had he been confined to his apartment, he could have just turned on the gas and blown up the whole building.
Where there's a will, there is always a way.
Just the way it is.
Indeed. I can't disagree with you about that, but we can learn from incidents like these.
We can learn from lack of personal freedom in Germany.
I'd be up shit creek right now, since I am sick, if I was confined to my house because I went to the doctor.
Nearest ANYTHING is 25 miles away.
How could I refill my prescriptions, for example?
That was massively OT, but since you made the point, I am going to respond.
Lack of personal freedom? Really, you think that?
The KRANKENSCHEIN system is there to protect the employee AND the employer. If the employee is too sick to work, then logically he is also too sick to be playing hookey and just do whatever he wants to do all into the late hours of the evening. A person who has been written off sick has until 4 PM EACH DAY for the time period on the KRANKENSCHEIN to do things like purchase medications, go shopping, drop off or pick up kids to/from school, etc. But after 4 PM, unless an exception is written by the doc, then that person is supposed to be resting and healing. This is why a person in Germany can be written up sick up to six weeks straight without fear of losing his job, but employers can be guaranteed that if a person who is sick breaks the rules and is caught, he or she can be immediately fired. This is why, at the end of the day, Germans usually take less sick days than most Americans. Germans take sickness seriously and they get over what ails them. The system works quite well.
I once had a slipped disc and decided to do a number of months of PT. In the one week in which I was written off as sick, the only PT appointment I could get was 6:30 PM on MWF, so my doc wrote an exception so that I could take PT at that time.
In Germany, there is at least one drug store and one grocery easily within 30 KM of any town, hamlet or city, so the KM restriction is also quite sensible. Even for this, an exception can be written, for instance, in the case of a person who feels he can heal better at a parent's or child's home, which is more than 50 KM away from his permanent residence. I once had a colleague who had a horrible bronchitis, whose parents live on the Ostsee. He mentioned it to his doc, who recommended that, if possible, he should spend a week at the Ostsee and get the fresh air in order to heal more quickly. In this case, the doc wrote an exception. That which aids in healing as quickly as possibly is almost always accepted.
What is not accepted is playing hookey.
You know, personal responsibility.