Super User Dwight Hottle Posted March 26, 2015 Super User Posted March 26, 2015 Lots of unanswered questions about missing planes & rogue pilots. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/alone-at-controls-co-pilot-sought-to-destroy-the-plane/ar-AAa1d9O?ocid=HPCDHP Quote
Super User BrianinMD Posted March 26, 2015 Super User Posted March 26, 2015 Well one suicide and a mass murder. Quote
Super User F14A-B Posted March 26, 2015 Super User Posted March 26, 2015 I'm not surprised at all.. The Indian Ocean disappearing airline seems similar... Geez.. This stuff is disturbing to me. German law appears weak, why allow one pilot only to remain in CP? Keyed entry & digital entry should be know by more than who holds the controls.. Bet that changes now... Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted March 26, 2015 Super User Posted March 26, 2015 Makes you feel all warm and cozy doesn't it. Insane. 1 Quote
Global Moderator Mike L Posted March 26, 2015 Global Moderator Posted March 26, 2015 Ill bet they'll be installing some type of lock by pass system that can be accessed from the inside on those doors and only telling the flight crew how to use it real quick. Very scary Mike Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted March 26, 2015 Super User Posted March 26, 2015 It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world. Quote
Super User Redlinerobert Posted March 27, 2015 Super User Posted March 27, 2015 I can't imagine the horror on that plane as the other pilot attempted to get back into the cockpit. Godspeed. Quote
bassinOUT89 Posted March 27, 2015 Posted March 27, 2015 That's disgusting. Do the airlines do yearly psych evals? Obviously the guy wasn't right in the head. has this been looked into as terrorism? Or is the guy just a nut? Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted March 27, 2015 Super User Posted March 27, 2015 Absolute, infallible security is an illusion, even for a president. Someone has to have absolute control, and in this case, it was a sicko in the cockpit. Let the pilot have some method of over riding the door locks to prevent being locked out of the cockpit, and if he flips out, he can fly the plane into a mountain, or the ocean. Maybe technology could do away with the need for pilots. But I doubt I'd want to fly in a plane controlled solely by a machine. Look at the antics of the secret service lately. And they go through all sorts of rigorous mental and emotional tests. 1 Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted March 27, 2015 Super User Posted March 27, 2015 I'm not surprised at all.. The Indian Ocean disappearing airline seems similar... Geez.. This stuff is disturbing to me. German law appears weak, why allow one pilot only to remain in CP? Keyed entry & digital entry should be know by more than who holds the controls.. Bet that changes now... One of the German spokesmen said yesterday that they have no plans to change for now. Absolute, infallible security is an illusion, even for a president. Someone has to have absolute control, and in this case, it was a sicko in the cockpit. Let the pilot have some method of over riding the door locks to prevent being locked out of the cockpit, and if he flips out, he can fly the plane into a mountain, or the ocean. Maybe technology could do away with the need for pilots. But I doubt I'd want to fly in a plane controlled solely by a machine. Look at the antics of the secret service lately. And they go through all sorts of rigorous mental and emotional tests. Not so sure mental problems are the root of the secret service. Getting pay offs and favors from an enemy as in the case of the Columbian drug cartels is greed and corruption. Quote
Super User Dwight Hottle Posted March 27, 2015 Author Super User Posted March 27, 2015 Latest update said the co-pilot had been suffering from depression since 2008. Under current regs pilots only go through mental checkup once before hiring but depending on age they have 6 month or 12 month physicals. I think after this tragedy the whole system will be changed. 149 dead people deserve a change for the better. Quote
Super User F14A-B Posted March 27, 2015 Super User Posted March 27, 2015 Yup, if it's a fact, he suffered from depression, then, passengers have the right to have "stable" pilots, not to be confused with feeling bluesy like all humans do. Medical records for mass transit should be open for review, for the sake of all future travelers. It's so very sad.. I don't believe it was deppression, but a more severe mental illness, he didn't exactly commit suicide, but 149 counts of Homicide.. More Screening, more often, it's a start in the right direction.. Quote
Super User Dwight Hottle Posted March 27, 2015 Author Super User Posted March 27, 2015 The whole story is just getting more & more ugly. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/germanwings-co-pilots-home-town-stunned-as-health-details-emerge/ar-AAa6Eph?ocid=HPCDHP Quote
AQUA VELVA Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Used to be ,you only had to worry about incompetent or drunk pilots. Now it's crazy/suicidal pilots. Quote
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