of all ensuring that the pilot who s still flyying the plane is okay. there s not a medical issue. second of all, when that pilot comes back to get back into the cockpit from the lavatory it is in fact the pilot and he or she doesn t have a gun to his or her head. it s all about security. the flight attendant is supposed to look through the peephole to make sure that person on the other side is in fact the other pilot and that everything s okay. in this case, in germany, or pardon me in this case with the plane crash in france it appear there are no other voices on the audio recording suggesting there was no flight attendant to came in to stand guard in the cockpit. if that s the case then what we need to ask the german prosecutor s office and also lufthansa, lufthansa executives when they have a news conference is what is your protocol? what are your standards, what do you require of your flight crews? do you require the flight attendant it come in or not. if they don t, then you ve g
is it serious and a suicidal pilot sitting in the cockpit which really doesn t do a lot for the industry. this is a pilot coming out of the cockpit is routine of somebody who wants to go to the lavatory or get a cup of coffee. this is something that happens thousands of times all across the globe. talk to me about what this pilot, if these reports are true a military official telling the new york times on the voice recorder, you can hear the pilot tapping and knocking and desperately trying to break back into the cockpit. there is a key pad on the outside of the door. he would have keyed in a code. on the inside of the door a latch that the other pilot could have prevented him from using the key pad. without going into security
the associated press has a source and so does lavigaro. if a pilot was locked out because he or she went to the rest room then normally you have a flight attendant who goes into the cockpit as well and waits to make sure they can let that pilot back in. so did that happen? if so was that flight attendant either part of some sort of a criminal act or a victim as well. we simply don t know. john cox, what do you make of tom s questions? are they the right ones at this point? are they the ones you have? they re similar to the ones i have. i ve been very suspicious about the single source that reported this initially. but there seems to be substantiation coming along with that. for a pilot to get up for physiological reasons, to go back to the lavatory is not that uncommon. there s a proet control that s followed. that s the question, was that protocol followed properly? it s very unusual for a pilot to be left in a flight deck by
other than the pilots there were four crew members, 144 passengers. is it possible someone other than the pilots could have been involved? it is very possible. we have this armored door leading to the cockpit but i ve spoken with several mechanics for major airlines and we know the front lavatory that s to the left, right of the armored door in the cockpit in the first class section, in jet blue it s at the front of the plane, there is no first class. there s no armor in the head leading to the cockpit from the lavatory. that can be compromised. there are many ways to enter the cockpit when the pilot exits. some people can be acrobatic. there are instances in which it s been a crew member. we had it recently within the last year year and a half. a jet blue captain came out of
covered and your hands exposed. how gross is it to see a guy sleeping with his hands shoved down his avert your eyes. but shawn kathleen has seen passengers do worse. he caught his hair on fire in the lavatory while he was smoking crack. reporter: sort of makes crewed gum left in the safety cart seem quaint. and whatever you do, do not get nailed using clippers. why don t you just skip the in-flight manicure. no one wants to see you caring for your feet at 30,000 feet. there was a gentleman treating his warts with compound w. yeah. that happened. reporter: sean kathleen quit her flight attendant job a year ago to become a nurse practitioner. she ll see plenty of naked men in nursing. but somehow looking at this i can t. reporter: seems worse. a passenger using a pillow case to cover his eyes while