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I'm kind of surprised that no one has mentioned the possibility of pilots having malicious intent.
by csours 4y ago
I'm kind of surprised that no one has mentioned the possibility of pilots having malicious intent.
- hef19898 4y agoAnd there is at least one case of this, so yeah, definitely a reason to have two people in the cockpit.
- iHateStylo 4y agoIndeed wasn’t there a rule made specifically after the Germanwings suicide crash? I see it all the time: crew walks in, pilot goes to the toilet.
- fetzu 4y agoIt seems that it was made into a rule but dropped a year later [0] (by the EASA, so in Europe at least). According to the Wikipedia article on Germanwings 9525, even Germanwings dropped that two-person rule a couple of years later [1]. I don’t know what the FAA rule regarding this is. [0] https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/newsroom-and-events/news/minimum-cockpit-occupancy-easa-issues-revised-safety-information-bulletin https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/newsroom-and-events/news/minim... [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39749803 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39749803
- dewey 4y agoExactly, there's a reason the "Two-man rule" exists for when a single person should not be trusted with the outcome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule