It has been revealed the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps this week was likely caused by the plane’s co-pilot--a scenario that wouldn’t happen in the U.S.
The U.S. has stricter standards on how many people can be in the cockpit. The Federal Aviation Administration mandates that a flight attendant has to sit in the cockpit area when one of the pilots go into the passenger area.
In Europe, the regulations are more lax, as European airliners don’t have the same two-person rule.
“It is shocking to me that there was not a second person present in the cockpit,” Mark Rosenker, who is a former chairman at the National Transportation Safety Board, told the New York Times.
