Safety experts: Air crash in Alps raises need for 3rd pilot

French prosecutors' assertion that this week's air crash of a German airliner into a rugged mountainside was a deliberate act of the co-pilot points to the possible need for a third pilot in airline cockpits, several aviation safety experts said Thursday. "The flight deck is capable of accommodating three pilots and there shouldn't ever be a situation where there is only one person in the cockpit," said James Hall , a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board , referring to the "jump seats" in airliners.

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