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Old 29th Mar 2015, 08:31
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itsnotthatbloodyhard
 
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Hopefully soon enough people will have thought this 'F/A on the flight deck' thing through properly, and we can stop discussing it.

On any given flight there are considerably more F/As than pilots. Those F/As have undergone less rigorous screening and ongoing examination (no disrespect to F/As, that's just how it is). Therefore, there's a higher chance of getting a psychotic F/A on a flight than a psychotic pilot. So I don't see how we solve the Germanwings scenario by shutting an F/A into the flight deck with crash axes, extinguishers, oxy bottles and an unsuspecting pilot, when statistically it seems more likely for the F/A to be a problem than the pilot.
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