flydubai 1073, Part 3: Why Europe Wants Two People in Every Cockpit Again

On May 18, 2026, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) went back to recommending at least two authorised people in the cockpit at all times. This video goes through the investigation reports behind that advice: the BEA's list of 12 cases since 1980 in which a crew member's intentional actions or mental health affected a flight; EgyptAir 990 (NTSB) and the Egyptian authority's dissent; LAM Mozambique 470 (Namibia's DAAI); the "rehearsal" on Germanwings 9525's outbound flight (BEA); a 2024 Lufthansa A321 incident in which the co-pilot, alone, became incapacitated (Spain's CIAIAC); and what a second person in the cockpit can and can't do, set against flydubai 1073, FedEx 705 (from the U.S. court record) and SilkAir 185. No names of the pilots involved are used.

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Chapters
0:00 Already in the cockpit
0:41 Twelve cases
2:01 Alone at the controls
5:25 The rehearsal
7:19 One, then two
10:03 What a second person can't do

The flight deck and its door are a simplified, generic illustration (737-style); no people are shown. Maps and globe: NASA Blue Marble and Blue Marble Next Generation (public domain); locations of the events are approximate. Document page: NTSB Aircraft Accident Brief AAB-02/01 (public domain). Stock footage from Pexels (Pexels License) shows places and objects, not the people involved. Quotes are taken from the reports and documents listed. Educational content, not medical or security advice.

Sources (claim IDs match the on-screen source lines):
BEA — Final Report, Accident on 24 March 2015 at Prads-Haute-Bléone to the Airbus A320-211 registered D-AIPX operated by Germanwings [C1]: https://www.bea.aero/uploads/tx_elydbrapports/BEA2015-0125.en-LR.pdf
National Transportation Safety Board — Aircraft Accident Brief NTSB/AAB-02/01, EgyptAir Flight 990, Boeing 767-366ER, SU-GAP, 60 Miles South of Nantucket, Massachusetts, October 31, 1999 [C2]: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAB0201.pdf
Republic of Namibia, Directorate of Aircraft Accident Investigation — Civil Aircraft Accident Report ACCID/112913/1-12, C9-EMC, Bwabwata National Park, 29 November 2013 [C3]: https://asn.flightsafety.org/reports/2013/20131129_E190_C9-EMC.pdf
EASA — Safety Information Bulletin 2015-04, Authorised persons in the flight crew compartment [C4]: https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/EASA_SIB_2015_04_Authorised_Persons_in_the_FCC_withdrawn.pdf/SIB_2015-04_1
EASA — Safety Information Bulletin 2016-09R1, Minimum Cockpit Occupancy [C5]: https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/EASA_SIB_2016_09R1.pdf/SIB_2016-09R1_1
CIAIAC — Technical report IN-001/2024, incident on 17 February 2024 to aircraft Airbus A321, registration D-AISO [C6]: https://www.fzt.haw-hamburg.de/pers/Scholz/cabinair/2024-02-17_LH-1140_A321_FinalReport_Comments.pdf
High Court of Singapore — [2001] SGHC 326 [C7]: https://www.elitigation.sg/gd/s/2001_SGHC_326
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit — United States v. Calloway, 116 F.3d 1129 [C8]: https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F3/116/116.F3d.1129.95-6206.html
ynet — Flydubai co-pilot planned suicide attack on Ben Gurion terminal after two scouting flights, UAE says [C9]: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1evrc8igg
flydubai — Newsroom: Updates on FZ 1073 DXB-TLV on 30 September 2026 [C10]: https://news.flydubai.com/updates-on-fz-1073-dxb-tlv-on-30-september-2026

Stock footage and photos — Pexels License: Tima Miroshnichenko; Film Composite; Oskar Gross; K; D e n n y s ✨; khanhhoangminh; Ivan Georgiev; Alireza Akhlaghi; Samar Layek; Tamas Babai; KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA; pickarick; Sora Shimazaki; ArtHouse Studio; Pixabay.
Public domain / CC0 media: NTSB Aircraft Accident Brief AAB-02/01, probable cause (National Transportation Safety Board).

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