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High-tech passenger jets used around the world. >> normal, lock, and unlock. >> reporter: he like all pilots has used the switch hundreds of times. >> the unlock you have to pull up and hold it. a light comes on, says the doors open. but if i release it it goes back to normal position. >> reporter: norm means that its locked. >> norm is locked. thats correct. >> reporter: according to an airbus operations video, theres a keypad entry on the outside that allows entry if you know the code. but if ...

Times. >> unlock you have to pull up and hold it. lock comes on, says the doors open. but if i release it it goes back to normal position. >> reporter: norm means that its locked. >> norm is locked. thats correct. >> reporter: according to an airbus operations video, theres a keypad entry on the outside that allows entry if you know the code. but if the person inside the cockpit switches it to lock, the keypad wont work for five minutes. and theres another override that goes beyond five minutes....

Theres another override that goes beyond five minutes. >> i can override the key pad and hold in the locked position. he cannot use the key pad or get in. >> to keep your co-pilot out, what do you have to do? >> if he knew the keyboard pad to get in i hold the lock. he cannot get in. >> can you manually fly this and hold the lock button? >> yes, easy. >> thats a purposeful act? >> very much so. >> again and again we fly through the scenarios in auto pilot and manuel. both managed to crash the pl...

Door is open. if i release it it goes back to normal position. >> norm means its locked. >> norm is locked. >> reporter: according an airbus operations video theres a key pad entry on the outside that allows entry if you know the code. if the person inside the cockpit switches it to lock, the key pad wont work for five minutes. theres another override that goes beyond five minutes. >> i can also override the key pad and hold it in the lock position and now he cannot use the key pad or enter the ...

Either do nothing, in which case the door will open in 30 seconds, if they were unconscious or incapacitated, but they also have the ability to push that button to lock. if during the override procedure they push the button to lock, then nobody can get in for five minutes. effectively the override stops and you cant enter. what we heard today from the ceo of lufthansa, and it is significant, john, he said he doesnt know, firstly, if the override procedure was attempted by the captain on the outs...

Walking through a department store and being trailed or car doors locking when he crossed the street, thats not legislatable, is it? this is kind of, i think, what some people hope is that demographics and a changing america will do more to change the profiling mindset than any kind of law? >> the president said that was him 35 years ago. thats me on a daily basis, especially when im home in new orleans and im dressed down, its something that black men still go through to this day, which is wome...

America. >> and that is what the president was calling for, so given that fact, how are democrats reacting to what the president said? >> well, again, theyre divided, too, on the question. many say justice was not done after the killing of trayvon martin and people are calling for the justice department to investigate the possible civil rights charges against george zimmerman and to hold him accountable and he said the president effectively highlighted the issue of racial highlighting. >> the pr...