Secure cockpit doors?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Sudbrink" <wh.sudbrink(a)verizon.net> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 7:10 AM Subject: Re: OT: World Trade crash... It seem logical that, after seeing what a hijacker COULD do, the airlines will install secure doors to the cockpit. The idea being that if a hijacker takes the plane, the most he can do is either blow up the plane, or command the pilots to fly to a certain destination but they would not be able to get into the cockpit themselves. This would be expensive, and it would take time but I think that they should consider it. This would be emotionally hard for the pilots because certainly the hijacker would threaten to kill passengers if the cockpit door isn't opened but all things considered, I'm sure that the pilots and passengers would rather see the plane go down than see a repeat of yesterday's tragedy. It seems more likely that a few people would be injured but the damage would be contained if the cockpit doors are secured. Also, the news reports indicate that the hijackers had knives. Knife wounds are not as physically tramatic, nor as fatal as gun shot wounds so I would assume that people would attack the hijackers if they started to cut people. Bombs and guns are not easy to smuggle onto a plane these days so it seems logical that hijackers would have to resort to other weapons, like clubs or knives, etc.. After what happened yesterday, I basically agree that flight hijacking will cease to be effective. That doesn't mean that terrorists won't continue to blow them up, etc. -they still like to kill and destroy after all but it will be much more difficult for organized terrorist groups to think of an airplane as a tool of mass destruction. E.