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When you look back well before 9/11 pilots used to leave the flight deck quite a bit and they would leave one pilot flying. i sat on many a jump seat where the captain or first officer left the flight deck and it was myself and one pilot talking. after 9/11 we put the protocols in for this two-person cockpit for security purposes but nobody ever thought about the bad guy already being in the cockpit locking out the good guy, who was behind that door. i think we have to revisit now the intent and now with not only this event, but egypt air 990, and silk air, others that are similar to this we'r...

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Reach the control tower before landing. our sandra endo is in washington with details. first of all, sandra, the flight landed safely, but there's still so many questions here. the real issue, why the control tower couldn't be reached during that critical time. >> yeah, absolutely, suzanne. an investigation is under way right now. but basically it was radio silence from a lone air traffic controller in that tower. and the federal aviation administration says that the first case happened at 12:10 wednesday morning when an american airlines flight wanted to land. it was coming from miami. and it...