Germanwings plane crash: Co-pilot 'wanted to destroy plane'
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#2Can someone with aviation experience share how often pilots receive psychological evaluation?
I just asked a friend who used to be a pilot for Ryan Air and he said he had never received one.
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#3Is there any good reason that auto-pilot could not be enabled to override suicidal actions of a pilot? Perhaps a system that requires input from both pilot and co-pilot to override?
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#4Can someone with aviation experience share how often pilots receive psychological evaluation? I just asked a friend who used to be a pilot for Ryan Air and he said he had never received one.
Ryanair may not be indicative of the wider airline industry but germanwings was a budget carrier so I reckon it would be similar to Ryanair.
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#5Is it the case on all modern planes that a co-pilot could lock out a pilot? Is there any proposal or precedent for a key-code override on the door lock?
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#6Can someone with aviation experience share how often pilots receive psychological evaluation? I just asked a friend who used to be a pilot for Ryan Air and he said he had never received one.
Are you aware of any evidence that there is any such thing as a "psychological evaluation" is any scientifically meaningful sense?
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#7Germanwings did not have a policy of requiring a second person in the cockpit in situations where the captain leaves the cockpit. I imagine this is going to become fault standard in aviation from now on.
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#8First, remember the Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Airline Edition (https://media2.wnyc.org/i/620/620/l/80/1/BNCHAE.jpg). Second, I'm sure that Mr. Robin is a nice guy, but there's no need to publish his stray speculations just two days after the crash.
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#9Can someone with aviation experience share how often pilots receive psychological evaluation? I just asked a friend who used to be a pilot for Ryan Air and he said he had never received one.
Are you aware of any evidence that there is any such thing as a "psychological evaluation" is any scientifically meaningful sense?
i'm sure top gun had one so it must be true
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#10Is it the case on all modern planes that a co-pilot could lock out a pilot? Is there any proposal or precedent for a key-code override on the door lock?
I may be mistaken but I believe airline cockpits were made to be able to lock out people from entering in the event of a terrorist activity to take over the plane. This was initiated after 9/11.