The sad story of Germanwings flight GWI18G, which crashed into a mountainside in an isolated region north of Nice, France after the pilot committed suicide after taking off from El Prat airport near Barcelona, Spain en route for Dusseldorf, Germany. All aboard the flight - including a group of German teenagers on a school trip and the copilot who was locked out of the cockpit but valiantly tried to save the plane - were killed in the crash. The German pilot had a long history of mental illness, and unfortunately it is is not the first time a pilot committed suicide with their passengers on board. This episode delves into what safety regulations are in place to protect the sanity of those piloting the planes we fly in every day.
