A difficult divorce is strong enough grounds to have a pilot removed from duty. Irrespective of all the precautions and fears in the wake of the Flight 990 crash, the industry is very protective of its highly trained staff. British Airways is just one of many airlines which uses psychological profiling. Other airlines said the same. Human action may just be the final trigger in a complicated series of inter-locking factors.
Accidents are never so simple as they seem at first sight.
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