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I have watched this show now for years, and especially enjoy that, while clearly labeled as fiction, their "ripped from the headlines" storylines are reasonably accurate.
Now comes Episode 1911; the storyline is a female First Officer locks the Captain out of the Flight Deck while she proceeds to hijack the aircraft and return it to JFK in New York, where she will seek to have the Captain arrested for sexual harassment.
Watch it on On-Demand to see "the rest of the story".
But what the writers overlooked is that the FAA now requires two persons to be on the Flight Deck at all times. This means that if one Officer need take a "potty break", an Attendant will be required to be that second person on the Deck.
The storyline overlooks that little fact of life.
Posts: 9977 | From: Clarendon Hills, IL USA (BNSF Chicago Sub MP 18.71) | Registered: Apr 2002
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Details, details, details. Why let a little thing like the law get in the way?
The general idea of locking everyone out of the cockpit but yourself is not fictional. Remember a few years back when this was done in Europe so the one remaining (copilot or pilot, I don't remember) could fly the plane into a mountain?
At least they did not have a blood and guts outcome in this fictional one.
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Here's more about the Germanwings incident that resulted in the FAA rule that two persons will be on the Flight Deck.
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