Is the US media getting the German pilot story wrong?

As you know a German pilot committed a suicide/multiple homicide by crashing a commercial flight. It’s now come to light that he had a serious bout of depression not too many years ago while in flight school. When he returned to his training he disclosed he had been depressed and that is why there was a disruption in his flight school education.

Many people in the American media are saying he should have not been hired as a pilot with his psychiatric history. Should people who have been depressed not be allowed to ever be pilots and other professions? What about doctors, bus drivers, train conductors, military, and other jobs that you can serious harm a lot of people? If we forbid people who have been depressed from these careers altogether then will young people avoid getting help? So many teens go through depression, will parents be afraid of their children having a psychiatric record?

When I worked in rehab pilots were allowed to go back to flying after drying out and jumping through some hoops. Is that any different than going through a bout of depression?

I also thought maybe Germans might think about the whole thing differently than Americans. That there might be cultural differences.

How is the story being reported in your country and what is your opinion?

Did Lufthansa not read the report the pilot had handed in? Or, had they read it and thought it fine to still allow him to fly?