Bernoulli's Blog

1) What are the specific details of the Germanwings accident?  -         According to Joshua Hammer (2016), the Germanwings accident was a plane crash that was deliberately crashed by the co-pilot while the pilot was out of the cockpit. The plane was leaving Spain and on its way to Germany when the pilot stepped out to go the bathroom. At this time the co-pilot locked the door of the cockpit and descended at a controlled rate until they crashed. All 144 passengers and 6 crew members died in the crash. Was the pilot's metal illness documented?  -         There was medical proof that the co-pilot was not fit to fly. According to Hammer (2016) he went to his personal doctor and was treated for suicidal thoughts and behaviors but neve disclosed that information to his employers. The employers never had this illness documented because he Prior to the accident, had he ever had issues that were a result of his mental condition? -         Yes. He acc

#1 State of the regional airline industry:  Currently, the regional airlines industry is doing fairly well for itself. According to The Regional Airlines Association (2017), in 2015 regional airlines were responsible for " 44 percent of the nation’s departures and safely carried 157 million passengers on nearly 4 million departures" (p. 1) which equates to about 11 thousand departures a day.  Pilot shortage: The pilot shortage is not only a real problem, but a worsening one. The projection of the amount of airline pilots that are going to be retiring in the next ten or so years are staggering. CNN Money (2017) stated that "more than 42% of active U.S. airline pilots at the biggest carriers will retire over the next 10 years, about 22,000" (p. 1). Pay increases to solve pilot shortage: Just like many other jobs in the world, solely increasing the amount of money that someone receives won't change the long-term satisfaction of the employees.

In the beginning, I was never one of those kids that looked up at the sky and pondered what it would be like to be in one of those flying machines. In fact, I was afraid of flying and hated the way it made my ears feel. I didn't exactly dread it but I was never excited to get on a plane, I was just excited to get where I was going. My first interest was geology strangely enough. I only liked it because I was good at it but after some research I realized that it wasn't where I was meant to be. The people were weird, the work was boring and I didn't really have the drive to stick with it, even though I was good at it. Shortly after that I took a personality test, and it said that my most compatible job was to become a truck driver. I took this as a direct insult; which I don't mean in offense because it's a good job, I just considered myself more capable than to settle driving cargo. Before this, I heard the facetious saying that airline pilots were just glorified bus