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another question coming in, this one s from twitter. why don t cabin crews have a way to send distress call from outside the cockpit in case an incident occurs inside the cockpit? what a great question. you know, we struggled with that. i worked on the 9/11 cases for 11 years. and one of the key pieces of information we had were phone calls from flight attendants who used the gte air phones and their cell phones to get information out. but there was a lot of disagreement over what kind of communications they wanted to keep, the communications and really the command central, if you will, in the flight deck. but oh, my goodness, those flight attendants worked mightily to get us intelligence on what they had. it s still that way, unfortunately. do you think there will be a change because of this? well, probably not. i think they will still center the communications central in the flight deck, but i do think they will lengthen ....

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