German Wings A320 crashed

Mark815 said:
This is just sickening. I can't beleive that they don't have an FA up there when one pilot leaves the station.
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I'm not sure how much this would really increase safety. Maybe, in the rare case that the presence of a another human would prevent a rather passive nutcase from acting. In the case of a determined killer, a punch to the face of a unsuspecting FA would pretty much incapacitate that FA for awhile.
 
Flyboy57 said:
The additional psychological pressure of the co-pilot having to look a fellow crewmember in the eye before he took their life may have proved to be enough moral dissuasion to keep him from doing what he did. .
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I don't know. Someone dead set on doing something like this, their morals are already out the window. I think they're past any kind of moral dissuasion possibly. But who knows.......I'm inserting logic into a situation in reference to a person who has lost all seemingly, who would do something like this.
 
I_Money said:
My friend was saying word in Europe is the knee jerk reaction of no longer allowing pilots to be left alone in the cockpit. When a pilot needs to leave, an FA will come and remain in the cockpit. It all seems very silly,
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You mean they are going to do it like EVERY US airline does it now? How terrible, the Europeans are going to have to copy the Americans.
 
Pilot Fighter said:
I'm not sure how much this would really increase safety. Maybe, in the rare case that the presence of a another human would prevent a rather passive nutcase from acting. In the case of a determined killer, a punch to the face of a unsuspecting FA would pretty much incapacitate that FA for awhile.
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True, but just the idea that someone else was on to his plan, or even knowledge of the SOP that he wouldn't eve be alone in the cockpit might have been sufficient. Of course, we'll never know.
 
Pilot Fighter said:
I'm not sure how much this would really increase safety. Maybe, in the rare case that the presence of a another human would prevent a rather passive nutcase from acting. In the case of a determined killer, a punch to the face of a unsuspecting FA would pretty much incapacitate that FA for awhile.
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If this guy was a determined killer, he just as easily could have punched the captain instead of waiting for him to leave. No, in this case the guy was a coward and the presence of anyone else, FA or jumpseater would have detered him.
 
Pilot Fighter said:
I'm not sure how much this would really increase safety. Maybe, in the rare case that the presence of a another human would prevent a rather passive nutcase from acting on an impulse. In the case of a determined killer, a punch to the face of a unsuspecting FA would pretty much incapacitate that FA for awhile.
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It'd be "fighting our last war" and wouldn't necessarily increase safety and security.

I like the camera modification, personally.

Personally, psychological screening as part of the medical recertification process and de-stigmatizing psychological health would help.
 
Derg said:
It'd be "fighting our last war" and wouldn't necessarily increase safety and security.

I like the camera modification, personally.

Personally, psychological screening as part of the medical recertification process and de-stigmatizing psychological health would help.
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How about stun collars, like on Star Trek?
 
Derg said:
I like the camera modification, personally.

Personally, psychological screening as part of the medical recertification process and de-stigmatizing psychological health would help.
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What good is a camera, other than to record the last gruesome details, which the "news media" would be falling all over themselves to file an FOI so they could air it.

As for the state of mental health and it's treatment in this country, that is the true crime.
 
Cptnchia said:
What good is a camera, other than to record the last gruesome details, which the "news media" would be falling all over themselves to file an FOI so they could air it.

As for the state of mental health and it's treatment in this country, that is the true crime.
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Kind of just in general, not as a replacement for "procedure". Might be nice to see what's in the proximity of the cockpit door instead of putting on my shoes, vip-vip-vip'ing the electric seat back and peering out of the peephole.

Peeping out of the peerhole? Oh crap, you know what I mean.
 
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