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In reply to the discussion: One Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France [View all]Xithras
(16,191 posts)For example, the planes could have a keypad on the outside of the door. When the correct code is entered, a warning activates on the inside of the door and the flight crew has 30 seconds to hit a button to override it to keep the door locked.
That way, if a pilot is incapacitated, the people locked out of the cockpit only have to wait 30 seconds for the door to unlock itself. But if a terrorist is outside of the door and has obtained the password from one of the flight crew, the crew in the cockpit can still keep the door locked.
It would be trivial to put something like this together, but the airlines won't do so unless they're mandated to.
If it turns out that the pilot died or was incapacitated, and the aircraft crashed while the rest of the crew tried in vain to get in and save the aircraft, we just might see something like this.