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Originally Posted by W0X0F
While it's true that we have so many employees that I might fly with a pilot or flight attendant and never see them again in my career, it would definitely not be easy for an imposter to do what this says. For one thing, we all meet and brief together before the flight.
If you're meeting new members of crew every time you fly, I'd say it's not unreasonable to assume that you're not going to remember every face from the briefing by the time you're halfway through the flight. Would you even notice that you didn't recognise a member of crew when you see them on the plane, when they're going about their job, bringing you your coffee etc? Or would you just think "oh that's another member of crew that I haven't met before"?
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And there is no video; we look through a peep hole in the cockpit door before opening.
My friend said it was a video link on their planes, not a peep-hole. Maybe different airlines/planes are different?
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We also have a procedure in place to ensure that we are talking to a fellow crew member and not some random person.
Is the procedure vigilantly adhered to? It seems that there are many things that are correct procedure that aren't always (or sometimes are rarely) followed. Example from this flight would be the sign-off to ATC from the pilot.
Is it normal in-flight for crew members to request access to the cockpit? Do they serve you your food and drink? Would you think twice about just opening the door if you looked through your peep-hole and saw a man dressed in crew uniform standing there with a nice steaming cup of coffee?
I'm just trying to work out how easy it would be for a passenger to smuggle a crew uniform onto the plane, change into it, then pose as crew and gain access to the cockpit. In your opinion, how possible would this be on a scale of 0-10 (0 = no chance of it ever happening/10 = easy to do with hardly any planning). Fwiw I'm talking about how possible it would be, not how likely it is that it happened on this particular flight.