We May Never Know Why

cth: "After 9/11, Dearest was yelling about how the cockpit doors should be impossible to breach."

Sure; as many did, and rightly so; and that's what airlines did, after the horrid fact, In the Airbus crash, we see how that got turned around, with just the reinforced door alone. Besides the number keypad (which psycho overrode) and the aforementioned keylock that wasn't on the Airbus, all American airlines require that, if either pilot leaves the cockpit, another member of the crew goes up there; that might've made it at least less easy for Psycho Pilot to hijack the plane. As I understand it, European airlines are now implementing this.

However, if as reported this psycho really dropped out of pilot training for six months because of depression, he should never have been in the cockpit. Something slipped in the system there. Reports say what was found in his apartment was notes from doctors that he was not qualified to fly, notes meant to be passed to his bosses, torn up and discarded. Fail fail fail. According to friends of his, as a lifelong flying enthusiast (flew gliders as a young teen), "he would just die" if he couldn't fly.

Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit reported from a German blog that in turn cited what I've seen called a Nazi hate site, saying psycho went Muslim during that six months, attending the same mosque as some of the 9/11 murderers. The story hasn't had wide play that I've seen, and where it has, it traces back, ultimately, to that same one source. So, highly dubious. I mention it just FYI in case you run across that.

I wondered if he hit the psycho trifecta, depressed Islamo fanatic jilted by girlfriend, We'll never really know his whole motivation of course. It's all guesswork and detective work, with missing puzzle pieces.

One thing I have learned, just working with computer software if not elsewhere in life. I try to do as much "idiot proofing" as possible, even if the only idiot using the program will be me. If anyone else might use it, I try especially hard to anticipate ways a user will push the wrong button and mess things up. Invariably, one of the first users will try something the programmer never thought of. You just can't implement safeties for absolutely every contingency!