The problem people have with mental health is they think about it in logical way when it's a illogical illness. We now have finger print scanners on phones, surely they could use that now. Banks are looking at replacing at pin numbers with heartbeat rhythm measurements.
they should have 2, unlock and neutral. unlock is unlocked, neutral means locked but can be accessed by a keypad and each pilot has their own 4 digit PIN that will override the lock
I think it works like a dead man's handle. It needs to be held in the lock position otherwise it will spring back to the normal position. As I understand it from the video, 1. After a request is made by phone they can decide to open the door or not. If they feel under threat they can move it to lock (which locks the door for 5 minutes unless the pilot overrides it). The switch reverts back to the normal position. 2. If there is no response from the cockpit, the stewards can enter a code to enter the cockpit. The pilots receive an audible notice of this and can override it and move it to lock.
Thats the daily rate according to the W H O which just so happens to be about the same as the UK annual toll
The UK annual toll is half that. Some of the safest roads in the world despite all the hysteria from people who want someone walking with a red flag in front of all vehicles. If the death toll was the same per million vehicles as it was in 1935 then instead of 1,700 deaths last year there would have been 105,000.
Well they seem to be suggesting from the voice recorder that the pilot did not use the access code to try and gain re-entry to the cockpit and instead merely shouted at the co-pilot through the door before trying to knock the door down. I guess if you are aware that the other pilot is conscious, and they don't move the switch to unlock to open the door, then having a code to get in is futile as they can just override your request for access. There's nothing to stop one pilot accosting another anyway and subsequently crashing a plane so it's not an easy problem to solve. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Express_Flight_705
The 3500 daily figure was from my post I looked it up. The UN launches on Wednesday its "decade for action" on road safety to cut the 1.3 million deaths on the road each year. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), road traffic accidents kill more people around the world than malaria, and are the leading cause of death for young people aged five to 29 – especially in developing countries. Each year up to 50 million people are injured in traffic accidents, globally. "Road traffic crashes are a public health and development crisis," says WHO director general Margaret Chan. "Every day, road traffic crashes claim nearly 3,500 lives and injure many thousands more. The vast majority of those affected are young people in developing countries." The 3500 annual figure came from someone else and I guessed that would be about the UK. Bottom line is that flying is still the safest way to travel.
This is almost certainly what happened to MH370? Seems like the pilot disabled every mode of communication and flew to a part of the world where it will be almost impossible to find the plane. Whether the pilot had depression I don't know - the other theory is he made a statement to the govt by using their plane to kill hundreds in protest to a political event which was taking place at the time.
This event is bad enough, but a lot of the posts on here range from worrying to simply poor. OLM should have shut it and followed his better judgment. It's off topic and moved to petty bickering, get a life you lot, ffs.
