For flight attendants, whose job it is to take to the skies several times a week or even multiple times a day, the aftermath of a tragedy like last week’s crash in Ukraine can be excruciating. And, in the case of MH17, says Jeffrey M. Lating, a psychologist at Loyola University Maryland who studied how flight attendants coped following 9/11, the particulars of the crash—the second in one year for the same airline, and the result of human action—may make it all the more difficult. Lating says that, typically, following a traumatic incident, psychologists expect to see rates of probable …read more
Source: The Atlantic
