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Does anyone know if there are any authorization levels implemented in airplane software ? If Pilot had a root pass for the door lock, this could have ended up

• jackweirdy 12y ago
  Only unless pilot/co-pilot roles were the same. If it were the pilot trying to crash the plane - there’d still be a problem
  • brc 12y ago
    The issue with that is that the pilot can be tortured/blackmailed until they give up the password/code. The point with the designs now is that once they are locked, they stay locked, and no amount of killing hostages gets it opened.
• hvidgaard 12y ago
  The entire point of the door lock is to let control of the aircraft remain in the hands of the crew in the cockpit. If there was a root pass, that could be rendered useless - which is what they do not want.