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How confirmation bias at CAA created pilot’s five-year nightmare

OPINION: The court condemned the bureaucratic process.

Brian Mackie
Wed, 10 Nov 2021

When an apparent whistleblower warns our Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) that an airline captain is mentally unstable and could be a suicide-murder risk, alarm bells ring – very loudly. Particularly when the claim, in April 2016, comes not long after pilot Andreas Lubitz flew a Germanwings Airbus

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Brian Mackie
Wed, 10 Nov 2021
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