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The European Commission announced Thursday it had set up a special task force to review cockpit safety rules after the co-pilot deliberately crashed a Gemanwings flight in March, killing all 150 on board. The Commission, the executive of the 28-nation EU, said it had asked the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to follow up on a preliminary French report published Wednesday. "There is a whole series of rules in place but the task force is going to look at them and see what more might be needed," Commission spokesman Jakub Adamowicz told a news conference, adding its first meeting would take place Thursday in Brussels. The task force would examine "the cockpit door locking system and cockpit access and exit procedures, as well as the criteria and procedures applied to the medical monitoring of pilots," the Commission said in a statement.

 

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