[GraceG]

Have they released the name of the pilots?????

[P-Marlowe]

Sounds like the co pilot had plans.

[hecticskeptic]

So... no names released and no statement as to which of the two was locked out, eh? Hmmmm......

[ThomasThomas]

It is not odd that the door was locked. They always are locked while the plane is in the air. Why did the other pilot not let him back in is the question.

[Kozak]

And this is the downside of those reinforced cockpit doors when the problem is inside the cockpit.

[BenLurkin]

We’ll never know of course. But I suspect this is the same thing that happened on mh370.

[OldNavyVet]

One pilot locked out of cockpit: perhaps due to a Muslim, suicide-bound co-pilot: reminds me of the saying ... "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

Needed now, is the overall identification of both pilots.

[Domangart]

If you ever wonder about culture and what they mean by American exceptional ism, this is it. We require the two man concept in the cockpit at all times. The head waitress is required to be in the cockpit when one of them leaves to go to the bus drivers bathroom.

[umgud]

They haven’t found the other black box (data recorder). I thought these things had pingers.

[Aliska]

This is a duplicate. There is a long thread at the top of breaking news with over 300 replies.

[freedom6178]

This was no accident.

[Truthsearcher]

Has it occurred to people that if the protocol is whenever a pilot has to leave the cockpit, a flight attendant has to be in the cockpit, that the flight attendant could have incapacitated the pilot in the cockpit and then locked the door.

Could very well be that neither of the pilots were involved, you’d need to look at the entire flight crew including the attendants.

[NELSON111]

The thing about it is this: If you lock your fellow pilot out of the cockpit and your intent is to be a martyr...why the long descent? Why a straight glide-path into the mountain that lasted for minutes even when you hear your fellow pilot trying to break down the door?

That makes no sense. If I'm a muzzy...once my buddy is gone to the bathroom (or whatever he was doing) I dive that sucker straight down and we're done...especially when I know he's trying to get back in.

That aspect of the terrorism angle doesn't make sense to me...which leads me to believe there is another explanation.

[BluH2o]

Security protocol with most passenger airlines doesn't permit one pilot to remain alone in the cockpit, a flight attendant usually remains in the cockpit until the pilot that has left the flight deck returns.

[rfreedom4u]

Why did the pilot leave the cockpit? Don’t they have a bathroom in there?

[showme_the_Glory]

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[onedoug]

Get rid of the fourth seat or something, but it would seem logical to somehow refit head facilities inside the cockpit.

[PghBaldy]

Besides jihad - There is one illness that can strike in young people, seemingly without warning - schizophrenia. He was near the average age of onset.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Was Andreas Lubitz homosexual?