[BykrBayb]

My husband had a large stroke, and he breathed normally for the first few hours. He was panic stricken, but you couldn’t tell from his breathing.

[nikos1121]

A 28 year old? Secondly, even if the guy was passed out, the plane was on auto-pilot.

[Truth29]

Sorry to hear that, but I bet he didn't lock out his coworker and set the plane on a descending flight path after it has reached cruising altitude, however. The authorities in France and Germany are now openly stating that they think the crash was an intentional act.

[livius]

Apparently the copilot wasn’t just breathing, but was handling the switches, etc. For example, even if the door is locked from the inside, it opens automatically after 5 minutes (precisely to prevent an incapacitated pilot at the controls). So he had to manually override it every time it got to that point.

[Yaelle]

My husband had a large stroke, and he breathed normally for the first few hours. He was panic stricken, but you couldn’t tell from his breathing.

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Did he also keep activating the lock on the door, which unlocks after a few minutes if the correct code is used outside? This guy deliberately kept re-locking it.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

>>My husband had a large stroke, and he breathed normally for the first few hours. He was panic stricken, but you couldn’t tell from his breathing.

The inside lock mechanism works for 5 minutes and then turns off. It needs to be turned on again via a button on the flight console. Had the co-pilot been disabled, the 18 minute descent would have been over in 5 minutes. He must have re-toggled the door lock at least 3 times.