Lyn When I'm making music, I feel like a pilot in the cockpit flying an airplane.

The crash caused an examination of safety procedures protecting airliners from cockpit smoke.

The PSU will also normally contain the drop down oxygen masks which are activated if there is a sudden drop in cabin pressure.

King Charles gave them a set of buildings in the Palace of Whitehall known as the Cockpit (near the site of what is now Downing Street in Westminster) as their London residence.

A side effect is that passengers experience some discomfort as the cabin pressure changes during ascent and descent to the majority of airports, which are at low altitudes.

SANTIAGO Fasten your seat belts, because it should be a bumpy ride, the captain warned from the cockpit. We were about to enter Argentine airspace.

Most people do not suffer ill effects up to an altitude of 1800 2500 m (6000 8000 feet), and maintaining cabin pressure at this equivalent altitude significantly reduces the pressure difference and therefore the required hull strength and weight.

Australian aviator Frederick Sidney Cotton's experience with high level and low temperature flying led Cotton in 1917 to develop the revolutionary new Sidcot suit, a flying suit which solved the problem pilots had in keeping warm in the cockpit.

Three days after the incident the European Aviation Safety Agency issued a temporary recommendation for airlines to ensure that at least two crew members, including at least one pilot, are in the cockpit at all times of the flight.