And I don't answer my phone in the toilet.

Leave a fucking message — I'll get back to you when my download completes.

PS: That's not my chair that's squeaking.

I've found that you generally need massive amounts of power to paralyze a turkey.

At least a few hundred Watts.

More if you want the center at an edible 160F by dinnertime.

Yanno, it's been years since I've coded (beyond looking thru code to tweak a definition here or there anyway). Decades, even.

But I was taught on the job that range checking of inputs and boundary conditions was essential to reliable code.

Obligatory XKCD reference.

I agree with that. I suspect that if there had been another pilot in the cockpit at all times, Lubitz would have reconsidered his decision rather than engage in a brawl.

Punching a fatal command into a FMS s a different kind of act entirely than physically incapacitating another human, especially a colleague.

It's entirely possible that his decision was spur of the moment (2nd degree) rather than something he had been planning, or else he had been waiting for an opportunity as you describe. But without a letter or other statement intent from Lubitz, all we can do is speculate.

Regular doses of Imodium combined with a "low residue diet" will take care of that. You won't have to go for days.

But when you do go, you're in for a heck of a ride!

Hell, ask any long-haul trucker: a gallon milk jug does the trick.

Wear a "Texas Catheter" if you're modest.

Unfortunately, if one of the pilots wants to take the aircraft somewhere (be it into the side of a mountain, or to Cuba, or wherever) there's little the engineers, airlines or ATC can do about it. Any security measure will have a gap.

And also, the pilots must have control of the aircraft. It's far more likely that an exception to protocol or security will be required to save lives than to endanger them.

Well just for you, then, and only for you, the answer is she should remove her clothes and give him a world class beej while distracting him from the switch she's flipping to unlock the door. And then the pilot comes in and makes it a three-way. Because in your world all flight attendants are hot, slutty females.

Ignorant ass.

Sometimes a cigar[-shaped tube full of people hurtling into a mountainside at 400kts] is just a cigar.

Especially the Western Imperialist Infidel faction.

Possible?

Yes. Especially if they both had the fish.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit antidepressants.

Not to mention that a person intent on committing suicide by pushing buttons and manipulating flight controls may still not have the motivation to physically harm another person directly.

It may not sound obvious to some, reading words on a screen. But put yourself in the copilot's seat. It takes a different kind of person to kill a flight attendant than it does to drive a plane into a mountainside.

No. They carry pretzels.

Hey, you laugh, but one of those suckers nearly killed our last president.

You can't keep blaming Obama. He meant Jeb Bush.