Saturday, 28 March 2015

It's Remarkably Easy to Lock a Pilot Out of the Cockpit

It's Remarkably Easy to Lock a Pilot Out of the Cockpit


The investigation into the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 has turned toward the co-pilot, whom a French prosecutor says locked the captain cockpit before deliberately flying the plane into the ground and killing all 150 people aboard. That revelation, which came today, casts Tuesday’s crash in a chilling light but would explain why an Airbus A320—an industry workhorse with an excellent safety record—with an experienced crew went down in picture-perfect conditions without raising an alert.

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