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Heres the thing, so many people are asking the questions, why arent pilots screened psychologically like they are medically? before their 40, they get an annual exam. and after 40, they get an exam once every six months. do you see going forward this is going to change, that psychological exams will be part of it? >> the first thing you have to understand is pilots have a lot of incentives to hide any medical condition, whether its a physical condition or mental condition because it could end th...

Richard jorge writes on facebook, why arent pilots equipped with a special code to override the lock door even locked from the inside but i can tell you the answer to this, but ill let you. >> the object of the exercise is you want, lets say the pilot is outside the cockpit and somebody decided the take over the aircraft. a knife or just any form of torture to try to get into the cockpit. the goal is to ultimately give the men or women in the cockpit the final say over who comes in. unfortunatel...

A much more dangerous situation to be in. >> lets run with this supposition for a second mary. arent pilots trained to deal with stalls? gould through those scenarios in training would you not? >> well they are trained to deal with it. its some of the most basic training you get in the first days of flight school. however, these pilots were in a tough situation. they were climbing through horrific thunderstorms, their engines, turbines would be ingesting lots of rain they would have wind shiftin...

Aircraft is doing, its transmitting automatically. so both are transmitting automatically. so in this case, they dont have to wait to get the crash data recorder, wherever that aircraft crashed. it would be transmitting on the way down. >> so we would know? >> they would be transmitting back to boeing and back to malaysia. >> why is there this mystery? so then therefore it might have been some sort of electrical failure to your point because otherwise it would be transmitting that whole time. ...