WARSAW: Polish airline LOT stated that it has issued an order for all flights to have “at least two authorized crew members in the cockpit at all the time”. LOT mentioned to introduced the measure, on a recommendation to all airlines from the European Aviation Safety Agency.
The carrier mentioned in a statement that ought to a pilot want to leave the cockpit, an authorized cabin crew member would take the spot in the cockpit for the time of the pilot’s absence. The selection comes in reaction to the crash of a Germanwings Airbus jetliner in France on Tuesday. French prosecutors say its co-pilot Andreas Lubitz barricaded himself inside the cockpit and deliberately crashed it into a mountainside in the French Alps, killing all 150 people today aboard. Our editors found this article on this site using Google and regenerated it for our readers.
