article_snippet.sent: For any situation where you are relieving the pilot's control of their plane, there has been pushback not only from the pilots, but from airlines.
article_snippet.sent: There are some sectors that believe that ultimately the pilot must maintain overall control of their plane and that that is your best bet for a safe flight.
article_snippet.sent: it has implications literally for safer flight across the industry.
article_snippet.sent: Pilots' groups point to numerous instances where a pilot's training and perhaps unconventional thinking actually saved lives.
article_snippet.sent: Commercial airline pilot John Barton says there are other considerations to take into account as well.
article_snippet.sent: Commercial airline pilot John Barton says there are already plenty of safeguards in place in the United States.
article_snippet.sent: For example, Commercial airline pilot John Barton says, the Federal Aviation Administration rule that two people must always be in the cockpit during a flight might also have saved a flight.
article_snippet.sent: That is a practice that several overseas carriers -- including Germanwings and Germanwings parent company, Lufthansa -- have now adopted.
article_snippet.sent: The solution to the problem simply is for the rest of the world globally to adhere to the standards that the United States has used forever, and that is sound hiring practices, safety and training and security practices.
article_snippet.sent: Commercial airline pilot John Barton Commercial airline pilot John Barton says.