Andreas Lubitz

With all the technological wizardry that goes into designing an aircraft, you will think there would be a way to override a lock cockpit door from ground control in such emergencies.
Sad really.

comment by ubad9jagooner .Ramsey : don't get the hype ! (U7978)
posted 1 minute ago
With all the technological wizardry that goes into designing an aircraft, you will think there would be a way to override a lock cockpit door from ground control in such emergencies.
Sad really.
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We have the technology to remotely operate both aircraft and maritime fleets, as well as road-going traffic safely.
The only thing standing in the way is the insurance headaches involved.

comment by #4zA (U19575)
posted 30 minutes ago
just a point;

the world is incredibly safe compared to how it has been in the past
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This.

Our ability to beam bad news and terror directly into every one of our brains almost instantly as it happens is what has changed

I thought this would be the case. Probably the same happened with the missing Mylasia airlines flight, although by the pilot not co-pilot.

Carsten Spohr, Lufthansa Chief Exec:
“What has happened here is a tragic individual event,” he says. “We are trying to deal with an enigma.” No systems could prevent such an event, he says.

He acknowledges that, in response to terror threats, cockpit doors have been reinforced such that they cannot be opened even “by weapons”. The doors can only be opened by pilots using a code that all air crew know off by heart. But this can be over-ridden from the cockpit. So even if the pilot entered the code in the dorr from the outside, the co-pilot would have been able to press a button that deployed a five-minute over-ride.

comment by Gillespie Road (U18361)
posted 4 minutes ago
Carsten Spohr, Lufthansa Chief Exec:
“What has happened here is a tragic individual event,” he says. “We are trying to deal with an enigma.” No systems could prevent such an event, he says.

He acknowledges that, in response to terror threats, cockpit doors have been reinforced such that they cannot be opened even “by weapons”. The doors can only be opened by pilots using a code that all air crew know off by heart. But this can be over-ridden from the cockpit. So even if the pilot entered the code in the dorr from the outside, the co-pilot would have been able to press a button that deployed a five-minute over-ride.


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Like 9/11, this event has to be a game changer.
Surely there must be a technology at ground control to disable the cockpit override and let the door open!

"Surely there must be a technology at ground control to disable the cockpit override and let the door open!"
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Then a ground control terrorist will infiltrate the workforce and open the door to let terrorists into the cockpit !
Besides, there are lots of ways a pilot can disable the plane, you'd have to computerise the whole process and remove pilots - but I doubt that would be safer at present.

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3 people in the cockpit needed then, sounds stupid but is simple

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