[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Nedusa

At the end of the day, it could be a freak accident. The Pilot goes to the bathroom, the other Pilot says I will just lock the door, the Pilot leaves and after he locks the door he has a stroke or heart attack.

Is it procedure to lock the door of the cockpit at all times? and if so, did the pilot in the cockpit realize the plane was in difficulty and panicking to right the plane rather than go and manually open the door?
Did all systems including the door lock go into sudden failure?
Had someone else got into the cockpit and killed the pilot?
or was this single pilot committing suicide?
I believe that if this was a terrorist act, the plane would of been dive bombed onto a city or important installation.

[Nedusa]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Is it procedure to lock the door of the cockpit at all times? and if so, did the pilot in the cockpit realize the plane was in difficulty and panicking to right the plane rather than go and manually open the door?
Did all systems including the door lock go into sudden failure?
Had someone else got into the cockpit and killed the pilot?
or was this single pilot committing suicide?
I believe that if this was a terrorist act, the plane would of been dive bombed onto a city or important installation.

The point is these cockpit doors have three main settings

Open
Closed or auto locked - But green light so Pilot can put in a code and gain entry from outside
Closed - Manual override lock - Red light

This third option is when the pilot in the cockpit deliberately locks the door so no one from the outside can gain entry. If this is the option employed the Pilot coming back from his bathroom break would have tried to get in with his code and then realised red light was on and then he would have panicked and started banging on the door.

Is this not what the CVR picked up ??

It does look suspicious and the Pilots names have not been released yet...what does this tell us ?

Perhaps terrorism has not been ruled out yet.