Secure cockpit doors?

They'd also have to put in a steel plate wall/door along with it (take out 2 seats for that weight added) plus it's not much good if the hijacker shoots a hole in a pressurized wall and causes the plane to break up or decend violently. They might install a parlyzing agent that can be remotely actuated in the cockpit that would put all involved to sleep or incapacitated although there will always be someone that has a health problem this would affect, or someone screaming that their civil rights have been violated. -> -----Original Message----- -> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ernest -> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:46 AM -> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> Subject: 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... -> -> -> > -> > Mike Ford [mikeford(a)socal.rr.com] wrote: -> > -> > > Very sadly I suspect this type of attack to be -> > > repeated soon. It was simply too easy and too -> > > effective, for other organizations not to try -> > > it again. -> > -> > I doubt that. As a matter of fact, I think that -> > most airline hijacking will cease to be effective. -> > I think that, after this, any able bodied person -> > on a hijacked plane will resist with their life. -> > I know that I would, rather than die as part of -> > an instrument used to kill many more. -> -> 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. -> ->