I’d be interested to know if any foreign links, referring to online, had been involved. The Australian has reported the court has suppressed the information around that.
So door is closed and locked, shotgun pulled and aimed at skipper, and he says "take off or he gets it".
Unless you REALLY back your backward-hand pen skills, what happens next?
In all honesty, this was so close to happening - so it's a bit scary thinking about what you'd realistically do next when he says "order flighties to close the doors, take off now"..
I was on a flight in Europe last year, seated near the front, and the FO was going back in after the bathroom, meanwhile a gent in row 1 was obviously itching to go to the bathroom, so the minute the cockpit door opened, he jumped up and quickly moved to the toilet door. The cockpit door was still open, and it just reiterates, how easy it would be for someone to enter during flight.