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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hashan dis" data-source="post: 18126312" data-attributes="member: 124785">                 Measures for passengers safety by CAA            Following  the incident of a Germanwings Airbus A320 co-pilot who allegedly locked  the pilot out and then crashed the plane in the French Alps, the Civil  Aviation Authority of Bandaranaike International Airport yesterday said  it will require SriLankan airlines and Mihin Air always to have two  authorised crew members in the cockpit.        "When one of the pilots leave the cockpit, the pilot in charge will  require a chief flight attendant to enter the cockpit and thus guarantee  at all times that the door can be opened to allow entry," the Director  General of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), H.M.C.Nimalsiri said.        He also said that a new set of safety standards as measures to be taken  in an emergency had been included into the criteria followed by pilots  and co-pilots.    Medical checkups and training programmes for the airline staff had been  focused thoroughly by the CAA and through the new standards, CAA hopes  to ensure the safety of airline passengers.        During the first three months of this year there have been four airline  accidents around the world including TransAsia Airways flight 235 crash  into a river killing 42 people, Delta Airlines flight 1086 skidding off  and injuring over a dozen of people, Air Canada flight 624 hit the  power lines leaving 23 people injured and the Germanwings flight 9525  crash killing 150 people on board.(Piyumi Fonseka)</blockquote>

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