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Old 03-26-2015, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee View Post
According to a report I read this morning, when the first pilot left the cockpit someone else should have replaced him for the time he was gone!

I can only imagine the horror the passengers went through in seeing a pilot trying to get into the cockpit and knowing something was very very wrong.
My understanding is that that is an FAA rule but it's not the rule in Europe. Some European airlines have the rule in place voluntarily but this one doesn't.
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