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This type of emergency, certainly hopes it never actually happens. our aviation correspondent joins us watt littest. what do we know? anderson, passengers tell our boston affiliate the voice over the p.a. system was quivering when they were told the pilot wasn t feeling well and one passenger said he knew it was a serious situation. we don t know the official cause of death. that s still unclear but we do know that co-pilot took over and because there is a two-person in the cockpit rule, it was a flight attendant who was in the cockpit when that co-pilot safely landed the plane with 147 passengers. what happened when the plane was on the ground? when the plane was on the ground ambulance met the aircraft and first responders boarded and the captain was pronounced dead right there in the cockpit. passengers say that they had to wait for the pilot s body to be removed from the plane. terribly sad story but really does under score why it so ....
When they were told the pilot wasn t feeling well and one passenger said he knew it was a serious situation. we don t know the official cause of death. that s still unclear but we do know that co-pilot took over and because there is a two-person in the cockpit rule, it was a flight attendant who was in the cockpit when that co-pilot safely landed the plane with 147 passengers. what happened when the plane was on the ground? when the plane was on the ground ambulance met the aircraft and first responders boarded and the captain was pronounced dead right there in the cockpit. passengers say that they had to wait for the pilot s body to be removed from the plane. terribly sad story but really does under score why it so critical for two pilots to be in the cockpit, one is always prepared to take over for whatever reason. the other cannot fly the plane, ....
That s why in the united states and now several countries have joined in after germanwings and it s the two person in the cockpit rule because it could be the one fliesingying that has a medical emergency and it probably happens several times a year. mary thank you very much. appreciate it. coming up next it is easter sunday and the pope gave a very poignant address and message today from the vatican drawing attention to conflicts from the middle east to africa. what he said, next. it s happening. today, more and more people with type 2 diabetes are learning abo long-acting levemir® an injectable insulin that can give you blood sugar control for up to 24 hours. and levemir® helps lower your a1c. levemir® comes in flextouch® the only prefilled insulin pen with no push-button extension. levemir® lasts 42 days without refrigeration. that s 50% longer than lantus® which lasts 28 days. today i m asking about levemir® flextouch®. ....
Planning this? well, it does in a couple of ways, one from the psychological aspect of being able to go to all of these other doctors, and there s reports now the fact that some of these doctors actually knew he was a pilot, knew he was worried about this, and yet there was no mechanism for them to be required to report that. he relied on him on the co-pilot himself to take this note back and report it to the authorities. this is a real problem. mary brings it up well that there s a two-person in the cockpit rule. i m not sure that s far enough. i think it is something that would prevent it from happening right away, but there s something deeper going on and there needs to be something in the medical reporting requirements for the like logical part of the medical certification process. when you get down to it, mary, we ve talked about it in many different ways, but this is just one more example when you ....