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Let's hope they carry through on this rather than simply use their response to this accident as a way to gain exposure.

Europe’s third largest budget airline, Norwegian Air Shuttle, says it plans to adopt new rules requiring two crew members to always be present in the cockpit of a flying aircraft.

Norwegian spokeswoman Charlotte Holmbergh-Jacobsson says the new rules will be adopted “as soon as possible” on all commercial flights globally. She said the decision was taken on Thursday after details emerged that the co-pilot of the Germanwings Flight 9525 that crashed in France on Tuesday had apparently locked himself in the cockpit.

She said that the airline’s security department had been thinking about the measure “for a while, and today decided on it.”

Other airlines, including Finnish national carrier Finnair, stipulate that there must always be two crew members in the cockpit of a flying aircraft.

This article was from The Associated Press and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.

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Photo credit: Interior of a Norwegian Air plane. Norwegian Air Shuttle

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