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"I suspect the Germanwings aircraft did not have a physical "deadbolt" fitted, so that's another red herring.
Pure supposition on your behalf.
WF, i know about 1997 and 2000 bulit MSNs, that had no deadbolt installed. The security door (with all the other bells and whistles) on those was, I think, retrofitted but a standard Airbus kit. OTOH, the 2005+ machines with with line-fit indeed came with the deadbolt.
The prosecutor in his brief stated that the airframe did not have the override emergency code feature (which I find hard to believe) and was 24 yrs old.
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