[thechat] Airlines

[Bob Davis]

IIRC, most US airlines already lock the cockpit door.

The last thing they want is a drunken, pissed off 'cause he's going 
to miss his connection so I'm gonna give it more gas passenger 
barging in.

They've been locking them for a few years, even on domestic flights.

Or so I recall.

bob


At 3:05 PM -0700 9/13/01, you wrote:

>or the prohibition of ALL knives & knife-like objects in carry on luggage.
>
>it's sort of surprising, in retrospect, that the cockpit is so 
>accessible, considering the importance of the pilots and their job.
>
>Erika
>
>><snip>
>>  They (like I think all the Middle
>>Eastern airlines) have sealed flight-decks. You just cannot get in
>>from the passenger cabin.
>></snip>
>>
>>Dang, now that wouldn't have cost the airlines all that much to implement
>>and it would have completely averted the crashes and very likely even the
>>takeover attempts...

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