Airlines
New EU Rules Address 'Mental Fitness' of Pilots, Cabin Crew
Requirements stem from Germanwings flight 9525 crash findings
A Germanwings Airbus A320 takes off from Cologne Bonn Airport. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-ND) by SPOTTER.KOELN)
A Germanwings Airbus A320 takes off from Cologne Bonn Airport. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-ND) by SPOTTER.KOELN)

European Union airlines will have to perform a psychological assessment of their pilots before the start of employment and implement a policy to prevent and detect misuse of psychoactive substances by flight and cabin crew members, according to a set of new rules concerning mental fitness of air crew.