EU urges two pilots in cockpit and medical screening

Europe's aviation watchdog recommended that two people be present in the cockpit at all times in the wake of the Germanwings crash, in which 150 people were killed. The European Aviation Safety Agency also recommended that all pilots should "undergo psychological evaluation" during training or before entering service and that the details of medical visits be shared in a proposed European database. The agency also stressed that there should be random drug and alcohol tests. "We don't know everything that happened in this tragedy but we know a certain number of causes and we thought we may not want to wait until the final report of the accident investigation to launch actions," Patrick Ky, executive director of the European Aviation Safety Agency, told Reuters. The idea is to "minimize the risk of a similar tragedy in the future", he said in an interview.