article_snippet: an article written in a specialist flight magazine posing the question: ' warned that someone could use the security procedures introduced in the aftermath of the 9/11 atrocities to prevent an aircraft's captain re-entering the flight deck after a rest break.
article_snippet: French prosecutors have determined that Andreas Lubitz waited for Andreas Lubitz captain to leave the flight deck before disabiling key pad controlling access to the cockpit.
article_snippet: As soon as the door closed behind Captain Sondenheimer, Lubitz flicked a switch which disabled the keypad on the cabin side of the door for five minutes and initiated Captain Sondenheimer descent.
article_snippet: the door lock override is switched off after five minutes as an additional safety measure in case the flight crew become incapacitated.
article_snippet: Lubitz is believed to have flicked a switch which disabled the keypad on the cabin side of the door for five minutes and initiated his descent a second time during the eight-minute descent.
article_snippet: Lubitz locked Lubitz captain out of the cockpit before commanding the aircraft to crash into a mountain .
article_snippet: Lubitz said: 'I seriously sometimes wonder who’s sitting next to Lubitz in the cockpit.
article_snippet: There indeed does exist a way to get back into the cockpit, but if the person inside disables this option (the security code to get in), one could do nothing but sit with the passengers and wait and see what happens.'