LONDON ¨C EasyJet PLC said a policy of always having two people in aircraft cockpits adopted after the Germanwings crash simply requires a flight attendant who would have stood outside when a pilot took a break to step onto the flight deck.
¡°All it is is standing on the other side of the door and just making sure that if the pilot is incapacitated or something goes wrong, they¡¯re there to call the other captain back,¡± Chief Executive Officer Carolyn McCall said Tuesday in an interview. ¡°There is no change in their duty really.¡±
EasyJet adopted the new standard on March 26 when evidence emerged that a Germanwings co-pilot had deliberately flown into a French mountain after locking his captain out of the cockpit, killing himself and 149 others. The European Aviation Safety Agency later requested that all carriers make the policy change.
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