Flight crash in Alps

The Germanwings flight appears to have been deliberately crashed prompting the airline’s anguished chief executive to say that “no security system in the world could have prevented the co-pilot’s action” (‘International page’, March 27). We can take heart by recalling the safe landing of a flight in India by the copilot when the captain could not re-enter the flight deck due to a jammed cockpit door or from a British Airways copilot landing the plane safely after the captain had a heart attack. Whatever be the mode of travel, by air, sea, rail or road, travellers can only remember Lord Nelson at Trafalgar and expect that every man will do his duty.

George Cheriyan,

Chennai