Psychological tests for pilots cannot prevent crashes, say experts

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Every day pilots assume responsibility for hundreds of lives. But the tests airlines use to assess qualified pilots’ mental and psychological fitness for the job vary from country to country, are invariably perfunctory, and can never perfectly predict how an individual will behave in particular circumstances on any given day.A French prosecutor’s allegation th