(London Independent) Hundreds of airline pilots – potentially even thousands – are so depressed they are having thoughts of suicide or self-harm, a new study suggests.
Academics from Harvard University in the US carried out an anonymous survey of pilots after Andreas Lubitz, the depressed co-pilot of Germanwings plane deliberately flew it into a mountain, killing 149 people, last year.
Some 4.1 per cent reported having “thoughts of being better off dead or self-harm within the past two weeks”, according to a paper in the journal Environmental Health.
