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Pilots are also now told to not open the cockpit door, no matter what's happening in the cabin and to land the plane. There is a near 0 change you could take co
by partiallypro 2y ago
Pilots are also now told to not open the cockpit door, no matter what's happening in the cabin and to land the plane. There is a near 0 change you could take control of the plane. I would be more concerned about someone bringing a bomb on board.
- tiagod 2y agoWhat if you hack a system that allows you into the cockpit with no additional checks? That would be crazy...
- lovecg 2y agoA random person pretending to be an airline pilot in a room full of airline pilots? I don’t see it happening, they’ll get kicked out in a second.
- sjamaan 2y agoYou don't have to pretend to be a pilot. Any cabin crew is allowed in the cockpit, AFAIK
- mpeg 2y agoNot just cabin crew, a lot of the time anyone flying standby is offered the jumpseat if there are no other seats available out of courtesy. Especially if they are an airline employee, but often non-employees too.
- mjlee 2y agoI don't think just anyone is allowed to sit in the jumpseat in the cockpit.
- sojournerc 2y agoMy dad was an airline pilot. Policy was you had to be in uniform to sit in the jump seat, and, yeah, it's not open to just anybody. If he was flying standby to get home, he would take it if no other option was open.
- Reubachi 2y agoIn US, and I imagine elsewhere....this is completely untrue for any commercial flights or honestly anything carrying legitimate insurance. I have never heard of a plain clothes non-employee in cockpict jumpseat.
- grumple 2y agoThe 9/11 hijackers were trained as pilots though.
- lovecg 2y agoThis is like a person who took a few python courses pretending to be a software engineer with a full time job, the lie becomes very clear after a few sentences.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoThe thing with this hack though is that it seems to be able to greenlight someone pretending to be staff to enter the cockpit as a passenger.
- kayodelycaon 2y agoHow did they get the keycode? It’s basically two factor. You need both the code and the pilot allowing you in. I’m pretty sure there is a second code on some planes that alerts the pilots someone is attempting to force the crew to open the door.