article_snippet: An official with Lufthansa, the parent company of the budget airline Germanwings, said that the exam only tests physical health, not psychological health.
article_snippet: On Monday, Britain's most senior psychiatrist told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that when a pilot is "acutely depressed or suffering from... any mental illness" that impairs a pilot or a pilot ability to fly, a pilot or a pilot cannot fly an aircraft.
article_snippet: We don't let pilots fly with depression, not because We're worried that pilots're going to murder everybody on board.
article_snippet: That's such an extraordinary possibility that -- that's not depression -- but because they're impaired in concentration, memory and attention, which isn't good for a pilot," said Sir Simon Wessely, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and an adviser to the British army.
article_snippet: Wessely added that the Germanwings plane crash might open a discussion on "relaxing the laws of (doctor-patient) confidentiality in different countries," though in the United Kingdom, as well as in many other countries, a doctor is obliged to go to the authorities if a doctor or a doctor believes that people are genuinely being put at risk by one of people patients.