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When asked by ATC, the pilots mention the threat level escalated to a 4 (at 2:39). I wasn't familiar with this scale so I looked it up, it's from the Internati
by thamer 3y ago
When asked by ATC, the pilots mention the threat level escalated to a 4 (at 2:39).
I wasn't familiar with this scale so I looked it up, it's from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO):
Level 1 — Disruptive behavior (verbal)
Level 2 — Physically abusive behavior
Level 3 — Life-threatening behavior (or display of a weapon)
Level 4 — Attempted or actual breach of the flight crew compartment
- AdamJacobMuller 3y agoInteresting with this incident, it was "technically" -- in the most pedantic sense of the word -- not a level four. The guy never breached the cockpit, he was already IN the cockpit! Scary stuff, fortunately he was both deranged and incompetent.
- roamerz 3y ago> The guy never breached the cockpit, he was already IN the cockpit! IMHO breaching the cockpit by physically forcing the door and breaching it by deception are essentially the same in the end. Thankfully this ended as well as it could have and might help in preventing something similar in the future.
- jacquesm 3y agoI think they are using this list in the most practical sense possible rather than wordsmithing and if you look at it as a multiple-choice set then that's the answer that fits best. They would have used the same code if it was either one of the pilots that went mad.