Re:It's Remarkably Easy to Lock a Pilot Out of the Cockpit
by anigbrowl on Friday March 27, 2015 @03:42PM
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You could do both at the same time, for one thing. For another, communicating with the ground also has a remote chance of succeeding - if ATC knows one of the pilots is behaving erratically they can communicate with him or her on that basis, instead of inquiring about whether there is a problem with the plane. Finally, while in this case there were no survivors, in other crashes there have been survivors who died of injuries or exposure because rescue workers didn't get there in time, because they were still looking for the crash site.
What benefits, exactly? And why do you think that the pilot is really going to make a call to the ground, which won't save anyone, instead of continuing to try to enter the cockpit, which may have a remote chance of succeeding?