Absolute power

March 27-the world learned that the second pilot of the A320 Liner company Germanwings, 27-year-old Andreas Gunter loves the airbus, on board of which there were 150 people, at the peak of French Alps, suffered from a serious mental illness that hid from colleagues from colleagues

From a collision with the ground, the love of the love, who locked himself in a cockpit and gave a command of an autopilot to an emergency decrease from 11 thousand m to 30, separated 8 minutes. There, at the height, this is eternity. This is all life before your eyes - both yours and your own children, especially small ones - like an opera singer from Dusseldorf Maria Radner, who flew that ill -fated flight with her husband and infants. An audio recording from the “black boxes” of a broken airbus about the last minute of his “life” has already been posted into the network. It has shouts of passengers and deaf blows - it is known that the armored door of Kokpita for a short time, the aircraft commander tried to break out with a crowbar. Nobody began to confirm the authenticity of the recording, but this is not important-in the real situation it was: the horror of passengers, the despair of the commander, the “heavy flat breath” (this was heard on the “black box” by experts) mentally unbalanced single suicide, who received unlimited power over all for these 8 minutes.

And it is not a fact that if the crew commander Patrick Sonderhaimer could break the door and break into the cab, then the countdown between the corrective and irreparable would go in the opposite direction. In such situations, the density of unpredictably tragic per unit time increases to sky-high heights. This has already been proven. He loves-not one of his kind. ... The flight Egyptair-990 flew out of New York and headed for Cairo. After 20 minutes. At an altitude of 4500 m, the crew commander Ahmed El Habashi went to the restroom, and after another 30 seconds. The second pilot Hamil El Batuti whispered: “Tawkalt allah” (“I rely on God”). He uttered this phrase seven times, after which he turned off both engines. The plane began to dive. "What's happening?" - shouted the captain of the vessel who returned to the cab. He quickly sat down at the helm, began a set of heights, but the second pilot continued to pull the helm down ... after 4 minutes. The plane collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean - 217 people died. This happened 16 years ago, and that flight, my acquaintance, deputy chief editor of the Franco-Canadian newspaper La Presson, flew. It would seem that there is enough time to extract the necessary lessons. But - the “rule of two” - that in the cockpit there is never no autocracy under any circumstances, that is, to leave “steering” to all one crew member began to be introduced only now, after the tragedy of the Germanwings aerobus: at first, several European carriers did this separately, then Germany, Canada, Austria ... late ... late ... late ...

About Andreas, the love of the plane to the alpine slope, political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky accurately wrote on his page on Facebook: "This is how absolute power looks." And one more thing: “So - we live in the era of a pilot diving right onto the mountain, locked in the cab. How many visions have passed before the eyes of such a great helmsman, how many bright outbreaks in his poor brain - to the last, behind which only ashes, are ashes. ”

The pilot during the flight receives power over the fate of 150 people. Nobody and a single institute does not control the waves of his own ambitions (worse-if children and youth psychological injuries that were deposited by scars in memory) has a “on board” unremarkably larger contingent. That both are on his mind - it is almost impossible to predict or predict. He loves, for example, he missed traces of a mental illness, tearing sick leave to shreds. In the arsenal, the politician has much more exquisite agents that allow hiding the disease of the mind. Especially if he rebuilt his own vertical to heaven. And especially if on different floors (echelons) this vertical now and then hear about the possibility of a “nuclear war”. And someone especially loves about the "nuclear ashes."

The trouble is that in politics, unlike aviation, it does not happen - the “rules of two”, although the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU happened. So that the “great helmsman” does not dive to the mountain, hiding in the cabin, we need honest elections. And most importantly - on time.

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