Airline cockpit systems can't be safely rendered tamper-proof to prevent crews from sabotaging flights, the FAA told the National Transportation Safety Board in a letter obtained by Bloomberg News. The recent Germanwings crash in Europe, found to have been premeditated by the co-pilot, and the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 last year has prompted a variety of security-related discussions within the industry and its regulators worldwide. The NTSB, for one, has renewed its calls for enhanced cockpit security including video cameras to record pilots' actions. The board has called for changes in cockpit systems since 2000, after its finding that a SilkAir captain in 1997 disabled flight recorders and crashed a Boeing 737 in Indonesia, killing 104 people, according to Bloomberg's report.
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