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Originally Posted by ernie
I also wonder why they don't have an external electronic lock with personal passcodes that the pilot and co-pilot enter when they take possession of the plane. Seems a lot of things can be done to prevent something like this while keeping the cockpit secure.
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Apparently they do, but it can be overridden from inside the cockpit.
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"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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Live updates of the press conference
http://www.theguardian.com/world/liv...updates-4u9525