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>> you know, sean, theres always that chance. and theres a lot of information that we dont know in this case. he could have inadvertently put the wrong number in his barometric altitude hold and that would have caused the plane to start descending. in this type of aircraft you can put in an altitude and it will start descending. that being said he could have become unconscious after that happened. what theyre saying is that he was breathing normally theyre saying he did not respond to the pilot ...

Cockpit, the other pilot tried to evidently tried to lock him back out of the cockpit that has to be manually done. >> can that be done? and how? >> it can be done. theres a switch that you have thats controls that door. so it can be done by simply putting it in the locked position and not allowing the person to come in. theres some procedures that well go through as we go forward here. but nonetheless, it was an intentful move to lock that door. >> to make this clear to the team here you guys k...

The parameters, the door might have been locked. youll find out an entire digital picture of what was happening. >> i want to go to peter or tom foreman who are standing by in washington. tom? >> hi, peter. this is the switch in question. explain what were looking at right here. >> this is the cockpit door switch that weve been discussing. and here its got a toggle switch. it has three positions. unlock. normal and lock. in the normal position you can enter the cockpit door. in the locked positi...

Particular key pad is outside of the cockpit. what is supposed to happen is if a pilot is locked out of the cockpit you isare seeing a flight attendant, she is going in and finding the pilots slumped over because she could access the cockpit with the air code. the airline issue as code only employees know they type it in the pad and they can get into the cockpit. the button inside the cockpit, the switch inside the cockpit, low as you to override and eliminate that. there it is. by throwing the ...

Screaming from the passenger compartment just before impact. now in the united states the faa requires two people to be in the cockpit at all time. but listen to this. >> lufthanza and the other european carriers on intraeuropean flights have elected to use the one crewmember rule, and that gives the person inside control of the airplane all by themselves. >> so no doubt aviation authorities in europe may be reconsidering that one person cockpit rule. >> lets take another look now at that cockpi...

Override as well. there were 22 types of switches within the flight deck that can be used to control the locking mechanism. one is a toggle switch thats on the center pedestal that has normal position lock and override. that override position is really important in the course of this investigation because that disconnects the keypad used by the flight attendant or the other pilot who is outside of the cockpit to gain access into the cockpit if the pilot becomes incapacitated. so it is starting t...

Thats where the training comes. >> obviously, he should be able to get back in the cockpit quickly, ordinarily. i got to tell you, this is so disturbing. last night i couldnt go to sleep. this is a profession to where we expect to be trusted. and to have this happen is really shocking. >> mr. fithe, what about the toggle switch in the cockpit where the single operator could override the security switch of the door. does that have to be looked at in your opinion? >> we have to go back and reevalu...

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Locks automatically f what ive been reading. but there is a fail safe code to open the cock pit door if it is locked and the pilot knew what that code was f. what ive been reading, everybody is saying he surely knew what that code was. but then the copilot could hit a toggle switch to keep it locked notwithstanding the code but only lasting for five minutes. what to you make of all of that -- what do you make of all of that? >> you need to have that. suppose you have both pilots in the cockpit a...

If thats true thats going to change. >> anthony roman, if i could ask you, why would a pilot be alone in the cockpit, is that normal? >> no thats not normal and its against regulations. this is absolute violation both in the united states and in europe. this is a remarkable development. you know, we can talk a little bit about the cockpit door. that is both bullet proof and grenade proof and has a triple electronic mechanism to look it. it also has a manual dead bolt in the event that the electr...