The Germanwings tragedy left a lot of people in shock. While we know accidents happen, we naturally assume that pilots are going to be the ones trying to save the plane, and not the ones trying to crash it. My personal (completely uneducated) opinion is: -- If someone wants to pull something off, they'll find…
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India is plagued with Islamic terrorism. Thius the need for caution when hiring pilots.
For both political and union reasons once hired no one can be fired
So are you saying that airlines from countries that are predominantly Islamic are the only ones facing terrorism? And just for reference, India is more than 75% Hindu, without anything near a Muslim majority.
@betterbub, I am Indian. Yes India is predominantly Hindu and I made no claims regarding Islamic countries.
India is plagued by Islamic terrorism and groups such as SIMI are indoctrinating Indians
Just like western countries are having difficulties with native born citizens joining ISIS India has a similar problem in spades. Except they are focussed domestically
@Marcus . What are you talking about? These are psychological tests and it started after the Germanwings incident. Nothing related to terrorism. Even the world's greatest terrorist can be psychologically stable (just that they have some sort of false strayed belief in their head). Are you implying that the Germanwings pilot is a terrorist? So the reason Air India conduct these test is just to filter out the terrorists. Unstable or prone-to-drunk pilots that may crash the plane would not be filtered in the test. herrrmmm....interesting. Air India of course >_<
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