He can be heard breathing, but what is the evidence he was awake and aware of what he was doing? Can he be heard moving around, touching things? Plus does the door lock itself?
It has emerged that one of the pilots on board the German Wings airbus was locked out of the cockpit. Here we examine how this could have happened and why safety procedures seem to have failed.
The co-pilot needed to trigger a switch to keep the pilot out, bypassing the pilot's keypad access.
Exactly.
I’m no doctor but I am SURE there are many “events” that do not disrupt the breathing pattern that much.
Nor, for that matter, do we know if it is absolutely clear. Usually the investigators have to piddle with the sound to pick out things like that.
This is mostly suspicious, but there IS still a possibility this is a horrible accident. I cannot believe they are mouthing off about this so soon. I can’t believe they have this much information so soon. It’s never this easy.
It has emerged that one of the pilots on board the German Wings airbus was locked out of the cockpit. Here we examine how this could have happened and why safety procedures seem to have failed.
The co-pilot actively blocked the pilot's reaccess to the cockpit repeatedly by depressing a lever to block the keypad the pilot would use if needed.
[He can be heard breathing, but what is the evidence he was awake and aware of what he was doing?]
The fact that he actively over rode the Captain’s emergency access to the cockpit. The fact that he purposely took the plane out of autopilot and purposely flew it directly into a mountain.