Pilot Left News Today

Southwest airlines says there was no pilot. at one point. there are two pilots typically so just one pilot left in the flight deck that is one a passenger who was on board the flight, also an airline pilot from a completely different airline was pressed into service and southwest says they came up into the flight deck and helped out this is the statement from southwest airlines, a credential pilot from another airline, who was onboard, entered the flight deck and assisted with radio. communicati...

Have still flown the plane into the normal -- until it hit the ground. just so happens the pilot left at a moment when the flight plan led straight over the alps and straight into that particular mountain which has made it much harder of course to retrieve the stuff. i think one important part of understanding what this pilot was doing would be to know was this a premeditated plan because it doesnt seem it could have been spontaneous like a sudden burst of madness. there must have been some diso...

>> no, the pilot is entitled to get out of his seat and go to the toilet and the door has to be locked. but theres usually a code the pilot presses in to let him back in the cockpit. so it sounds like he wasnt able to get back in, and perhaps something was done to prevent him from using that code. >> tom, typically in the united states, if one of the pilots leaves the cockpit, you would have a flight attendant sit in his place. is it different in europe for european airlines? >> no, there would ...

A press conference in paris this afternoon, the aviation authorities did say they managed to extract an audiophile from that black box in which they heard what they said they could hear the audio of some voices which of course were from the pilots or one pilot. they heard some sounds. but they said that they had to interpret those voices. so to do that it would have taken a few days or weeks. well, if it comes out that report from "the new york times" is confirmed, it is true that means they did...

And another was outside and the pilot inside violated a no lone zone had a heart attack a seizure, an aneurysm burst, this could be the exact scenario. i find it interesting thats the exact moment at which a change in the computer would have been made which would have caused somebody to lean forward. maybe thats not coincidental but it looks like it. the thing is i dont believe that we had anything add add ver tant. there would have been more manipulation. >> the group here at this moment is lea...

Which the remaining pilot inside the cockpit was somehow incapacitated in the cockpit after the other pilot left to use the bathroom. the other pilot left, the remaining pilot, something happened to him. he could have had a heart attack with his hand on the throttle. could have fallen in or died for some other reason. it is conceivably possible, i suppose, that a hijacker could have entered the cockpit once one pilot had stepped out. and then overpowered or killed the remaining pilot. then that ...

Thats good but its not an answer. it sure doesnt ensure something like this happening because the pilot left in the cockpit could easily overcome the flight attendant and continue on what they intended to do. thats kind of a cosmetic change, i think. >> you know john even as we hear the talk of what went on between the pilot and co-pilot early in the flight one still cant draw any definitive conclusions, but im curious, do pilots and co-pilots often know each other well? >> well it depends. with...

Deliberately crashed the plane into the alps? presumably it could also be nondeliberate human responsibility. right? you can imagine a scenario in which the remaining pilot inside the cockpit was somehow incapacitated in the cockpit after the other pilot left to use the bathroom or do something else in the passenger compartment. the other pilot left, the remaining pilot, something happened to him. that remaining pilot could have had a heart attack with his hand on the throttle. he could have fal...