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The Latest: Airbus video shows safeguards against lockout
Associated Press ^ | 3/26/15 | Associated Press

Posted on 03/26/2015 3:25:41 AM PDT by tellw

By The Associated Press 10:42 a.m. (0942 GMT, 5:42 a.m. EDT)

An Airbus training video shows that the A320 cockpit has safeguards in case one pilot inside becomes incapacitated while the other is outside, or if both pilots inside are unconscious. Normally, someone trying to get into the cockpit requests access and a camera feed or peephole lets the pilot decide whether to accept or specifically deny access.

If there is no response, a member of the flight crew can tap in an emergency code again requesting access. If there is still no response, the door opens automatically. If, however, the person in the cockpit denies access after the emergency request, the door remains locked for five minutes, according to the Airbus video.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Germany
KEYWORDS: france; germanwings; germany; lufthansa
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1 posted on 03/26/2015 3:25:41 AM PDT by tellw
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The computer that control the aircraft should be looked at..it is suppose to make the flight more efficient compared to Boeing types that have humans as the prime....Airbus has had problems before with the human to computer to flight controls....probably why German pots refused to fly after the 320 went down....


2 posted on 03/26/2015 3:28:55 AM PDT by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: tellw

ground based auto control is the next security need.


3 posted on 03/26/2015 3:30:53 AM PDT by tellw
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To: tellw

Connect the dots. Muslim


4 posted on 03/26/2015 3:35:12 AM PDT by ZULU (Je Suis Charlie. . GET IT OBAMA, OR DON'T YOU??)
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To: tellw

To me, this has some of the same tell-tale signs as MH370.


5 posted on 03/26/2015 3:36:36 AM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: ZULU

“Workplace violence.”


6 posted on 03/26/2015 3:56:53 AM PDT by tellw
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To: ZULU

Indeed.

Have you seen the names of the aircrew?

Maybe I missed it, but I have not.


7 posted on 03/26/2015 4:15:48 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: ZULU

Moslem connection, I am speculating and that is why no announcement of who was piloting the plane


8 posted on 03/26/2015 4:17:26 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Hulka

My guess: The individual in the cockpit was named Mohammed, Hussein, or al-Something.


9 posted on 03/26/2015 4:18:55 AM PDT by twister881
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To: snoringbear

EgyptAir Flight 990 comes to mind too.


10 posted on 03/26/2015 4:19:15 AM PDT by jonrick46 (America's real drug problem: other people's money (the Commutist's opium addiction).)
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To: yldstrk

The pilots named as Patrick S and Andreas L according to the telegraph newpaper and bild.

doesnt say what religion

apparently the last names are held due to german privacy laws..


11 posted on 03/26/2015 4:22:58 AM PDT by Irishguy
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To: tellw

All western hemisphere airlines should ban any Mohammedan from being an employee. Yes, dicriminate based on religion, although Islam is more a violence-based ideology. Too many instances of these 7th Century death cult adherents purposefully crashing aircraft and taking hundreds with them.


12 posted on 03/26/2015 4:29:39 AM PDT by twister881
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No. Even if the names are Christian, you have converts.


13 posted on 03/26/2015 4:33:49 AM PDT by ZULU (Je Suis Charlie. . GET IT OBAMA, OR DON'T YOU??)
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To: tellw
ground based auto control is the next security need.

Why?

So terrorists can fly planes in to the ground without killing themselves?

14 posted on 03/26/2015 4:43:08 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: Irishguy

well those don’t sound obviously Moslem, now do they?


15 posted on 03/26/2015 4:53:28 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: ZULU

My mind wants to say “Muslim”, but I wonder if they’re withholding info that might point that finger.<p.It seems odd that there was/is no claiming of responsibility or other overt indications - unless they have decided to keep us guessing, it makes no real sense in a case where crashing the plane would seem to be the goal vs. stealing it to use later.


16 posted on 03/26/2015 4:57:51 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: tellw

Too bad the door gadget can’t lock out Muslims or take blood samples to test pilots for drugs.


17 posted on 03/26/2015 5:35:54 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: tellw

My WAG, Disturbed gay individual, psychotic break, suicide, took many innocents with.


18 posted on 03/26/2015 5:41:56 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: tellw

Clearly there needs to be a hidden key somewhere close to the door that either the pilot or co pilot can get to in a worst case scenario. Or a code known only to the pilot to open the door immediately.


19 posted on 03/26/2015 6:03:44 AM PDT by armydawg505
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To: ZULU

And converts can be the most motivated (CRAZY).


20 posted on 03/26/2015 6:54:23 AM PDT by Hulka
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