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There should be -- >> so that's not just a u.s. domestic rule, that's -- >> that's a worldwide rule. and a flight attendant or other flight crew member must be in that cockpit when it's vacated by one of the pilots. what happened here we don't know. this is a fly by wire aircraft. for example, it is controlled by kind of like a control stick, a giant joystick. and if that is moved forward, for example, ten degrees and it bricks the nose of the aircraft down and then the joystick self-centers, that aircraft will continue in its nose-down descent. so if this pilot became incapacitated and uncons...

By one of the pilots. what happened here, we don't know. this is a fly by wire aircraft. for example, it is controlled by kind of like a control stick, a giant joystick. and if that is moved forward, for example, ten degrees and it bricks the nose of the aircraft down, and then the joystick self-centers, that aircraft will continue in its nose-down descent. so if this pilot became incapacitated and unconscious, bumped into the autopilot, bumped into the flight control stick, that could have put it into a steady descent, or it could have been something nefarious. however, the armored door isn't...