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To: Yollopoliuhqui
If the co-pilot suffered a stroke, it could potentially leave him incapacitated physically and/or mentally, yet breathing.

OK, this is a stretch - Imagine the co-pilot frozen in a position with his hand weighted against the toggle, unable to lift his arm, perhaps only being able to use some upper body motion (limited by seat belt) - or - completely incapacited because he was stroking out.

Perhaps the airlines will consider modifying the safety devise to accept a sequence of codes to over-ride that toggle for this kind of emergency, where two or more crew members have separate codes that must be entered in a rank sequence to break the security lock triggered by the cockpit's toggle.

303 posted on 03/26/2015 12:26:07 PM PDT by wtd
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To: wtd

“If the co-pilot suffered a stroke”

The co-pilot had to be awake to keep re-securing the door to prevent the code from working.


307 posted on 03/26/2015 12:42:58 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: wtd
OK, this is a stretch

Yeah, and pointless to add complexity for the 1/1000000 event which can can create new problems or vulnerabilities.

339 posted on 03/26/2015 6:21:40 PM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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