Is Germanwings Flight 9525[0] the worst case of how this can go terribly badly if these pilots are not treated with kindness and assured of a dignified retirement?
I'm not sure how it could get any worse than this? At the end of the day you will never have a system that will protect you against a homicidal pilot. The closest you can get is requiring two pilots in the cockpit at all times, but if the bigger and stronger of the two wants to kill everyone anyway, there's little stopping them from just trying to kill the other pilot first while the door is locked.
Wow. These compensation amounts seem… incredibly low. Is this some upper limit under German law? I’d have assumed compensation would be in the order of €1m.
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