Can Americans be confident about pilot mental fitness?

Season 2015

Does the U.S. need to change its mental health screening process for pilots?

According to Lufthansa, the co-pilot who crashed a Germanwings flight into the French Alps had informed the company of severe depression in 2009. Judy Woodruff talks to Dr. Warren Silberman, a former FAA medical certification manager, and Dr. William Hurt Sledge of Yale University about the current psychological screening process and standards for U.S. pilots.

AIR DATE 3/31/15

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