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Requires two people to remain on the flight deck at all times. if a pilot leaves to use the lavatory, a flight attendant normally remains in the cockpit. >> if the flying pilot then has a medical problem or anything like that, you have somebody else in the flight deck that can assist them but can also get the door open for the other pilot to return. >> reporter: most of the nations and airlines including lufthansa did not have the two-person rule. lufthansa joined a growing number of airlines wh...

Before they got to a flying pilot. all of our mentality was keep the people in the back of the airplane from getting to the front of the airplane. so we built these systems and gave the pilots the able to ensure that level of security. we never thought about it. or it was never really concerning we would have the bad guy, if you will behind the locked door keeping the people that are trying to salvage this bad situation from getting in and stopping this type of event. >> thats the rarity of it a...

Near the cockpit door in the front of the plane. those are all the precautions and safety requirements put in place, but they were also locked from the inside. >> theyre locked from the inside. there is no other option. >> no. there is no other option. and its just -- obviously we have to hear more from the authorities who hear the tape and more about the pilots their background, training what we know about their personal stories. thats all part of the investigative process. obviously, with this...

From the inside. >> theyre locked from the inside. there is no other option. >> no. there is no other option. and its just -- obviously we have to hear more from the authorities who hear the tape, and more about the pilots, their background, training, what we know about their personal stories. thats all part of the investigative process. obviously, with this development, theyre now turning very much to the pilots. i dont know, perhaps you do, im trying to find the story now, was it the co-pilot ...

Now, before you jumped -- >> his fingers are going. >> before you jump at that. >> miles wants in too, richard. finish arthur, then miles. >> you cannot analyze facts in isolation. they must be analyzed in the context of an accident sequence, which is a 14-minute period when this communication between the captain. >> miles, what do you make of this, though? this possible switch in who was communicating? >> arthur knows well that it could very well be the case that as they leveled off, the first ...

Analyst miles obrien and has been listening and has a lot of questions for you. but pick one of them. >> okay. i want to run this by mitchell and martin. the audio control bpanel. i counted 16 buttons. there is the audio control panel. granted you get used to that as time goes on. it is easy. you are broadcasting to the folks. so you have a high time captain who would have been flying and if he wasnt the flying pilot in this case. if he wasnt. he would have taken over. and you have a lower time ...

The air speed? its going to be, i think, a combination of human factors and how the pilots interact with the machine. jon: its my understanding that auto throttles on the jet are designed to shut down at 100 feet elevation so they dont start blasting power as the pilot is trying to bleed off power for the landings. >> thats right. and theres also an indication that as the flying pilot has his hands on the throttle, if theyre not loosely on the throttle, that could disengage the auto throttle, if...

>> we talked about in order to get certified in aircraft manufacturer has to show a fully loaded aircraft can be evacuated fully evacuated within 90 seconds. what we saw her was the first doors and slides werent open for about 90 seconds. >> the evacuation started after a flight aiden tant saw flames coming out of the plane and told the people on board to get out. new information from the pilot interviews the flying pilot reported being blinded by a bright light. it is a huge dust storm and it i...

Investigators they set the auto throttle to maintain descent speed. investigators will determine if it was set properly. >> we are now going to be looking at flight data recorder information to validate parameters associated with the auto pilot and automation, things like the autothough throttles. we need to work to understand what the different modes are, what can be selected and what the crew understood. >> reporter: what the crusade they did understand too late was that the aircraft was way t...