MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican
officials have announced new measures that would prevent a pilot from
being left alone in the cockpit in the wake of a German airliner's crash
in France.
Civil Aviation
Director Gilberto Lopez Meyer said Monday that going forward there must
be two trained personnel in the cockpit at any time. If a pilot needs to
leave the cockpit, another crew member must enter the cockpit to help
open the door when the pilot returns.
The
co-pilot on a Germanwings flight from Barcelona, Spain to Dusseldorf,
Germany, was alone in the cockpit on March 24 when the plane slammed
into the French Alps, killing 150 people.
Investigators have said it appears he did so intentionally, while the plane's captain was locked out of the cockpit.
No comments:
Post a Comment