After that Egypt air pilot slammed the controls down to crash into the Atlantic and the black box had audio of him muttering “Allah Akbar” while the other pilot was trying to get him off the controls...
Yes, they need to have someone on board who can reach the cockpit. Armed preferrably. A bullet in the head would have allowed him to let go of the controls.
Something is really fishy about this though. I know I can get lost in internet surfing sometimes, but wouldn’t the flight crew page the pilots after say 15 minutes of passing the landing time? It would seem SOMEONE on that plane would have said, “Hey, what is up and why are we an hour late to land?” and brought the pilots out of their ‘distraction’.
Somebody posted yesterday that it could have been a test. After thinking about it I wondered - yes, I know this is real tinfoil hat stuff - but remember when the Russians sprayed some terrorists with gas that put them to sleep? I'm wondering if somehow gas was released in the cockpit that caused the pilots to fall asleep. These are pilots with real clean records. Real tinfoil hat stuff.
I would say so. It doesn't pass the smell test.
"Whoa, dude, sorry, the entire flight crew and cabin crew just completely spaced out, lost all sense of time, and forget to initiate descent for 45 minutes."