southwest airlines says there was no pilot. at one point. there are two pilots typically so just one pilot left in the flight deck that is one a passenger who was on board the flight, also an airline pilot from a completely different airline was pressed into service and southwest says they came up into the flight deck and helped out this is the statement from southwest airlines, a credential pilot from another airline, who was onboard, entered the flight deck and assisted with radio. communication while our southwest pilot flew the aircraft, we greatly appreciate the support and assistance, so a pretty great coincidence here but also a pretty serious incident that the faa is now investigating. i want you to listen now to the air traffic control audio here. we re not totally sure if this is the southwest pilot speaking or the pilot from the other airline that came in to help, but you can hear just how serious this really was. okay we re going to get air stairs out here captain
have still flown the plane into the normal until it hit the ground. just so happens the pilot left at a moment when the flight plan led straight over the alps and straight into that particular mountain which has made it much harder of course to retrieve the stuff. i think one important part of understanding what this pilot was doing would be to know was this a premeditated plan because it doesn t seem it could have been spontaneous like a sudden burst of madness. there must have been some disorder in this man s mind which led to this terrible point. we need to know that. we certainly do. maybe we will get some more clues. this investigation clearly intensifying. i want all of you to stand by. up next how is that co-pilot able to lock the airliner s captain out of the cockpit. we will show you how a security measure this time had disastrous consequences. after rebels topple a key u.s. ally another ally is leading a coalition in a massive air assault. is saudi arabia ready to take
no, the pilot is entitled to get out of his seat and go to the toilet and the door has to be locked. but there s usually a code the pilot presses in to let him back in the cockpit. so it sounds like he wasn t able to get back in, and perhaps something was done to prevent him from using that code. tom, typically in the united states, if one of the pilots leaves the cockpit, you would have a flight attendant sit in his place. is it different in europe for european airlines? no, there would normally be a flight attendant in the vicinity. but if the pilot left, the flight attendant would still be on the outside. and if the pilot locked the door, both the second pilot and the flight attendant would still be locked outside. finally, we have this report in the new york times that the co-pilot initially tapped trying to get in. it was a polite tapping, if you
a press conference in paris this afternoon, the aviation authorities did say they managed to extract an audiophile from that black box in which they heard what they said they could hear the audio of some voices which of course were from the pilots or one pilot. they heard some sounds. but they said that they had to interpret those voices. so to do that it would have taken a few days or weeks. well, if it comes out that report from the new york times is confirmed, it is true that means they did already interpret, of course, those voices, just waiting to gather more information on what really happened on the second pilot that was left in the cockpit before they revealed it. of course, if this is confirmed, then another question opens up. what happened to the pilot left in the cockpit? as you said at the beginning of the program, that opens up to a whole bunch more scenarios.
and another was outside and the pilot inside violated a no lone zone had a heart attack a seizure, an aneurysm burst, this could be the exact scenario. i find it interesting that s the exact moment at which a change in the computer would have been made which would have caused somebody to lean forward. maybe that s not coincidental but it looks like it. the thing is i don t believe that we had anything add add ver tant. there would have been more manipulation. the group here at this moment is leaning toward some sort of medical emergency. i think we have to be careful about investigation bias. you have two scenarios. it was intentional by the pilot left in the cockpit or he suffered or she suffered some medical condition which incapacitated them and they