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FAA finalizes rule for secondary cockpit barriers on new passenger planes
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has enacted a regulation necessitating "secondary" cockpit barriers in new passenger planes, an effort to more effectively deter passengers from breaching the cockpit. (www.airlinerwatch.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
22 years later? Is it any wonder when I get a letter from the FAA for my SIA it looks like it was written using a 1950's typewriter? They move at the speed of stink!
I believe that even having an impenetrable cockpit door is questionable. Every potential safety improvement is normally subjected to analysis of the tradeoffs involved. But not breaching the cockpit door, because terrorism causes people to become irrational. Since the impenetrable cockpit door has been implemented there have been two (possibly three considering the recent China Airlines crash) commercial pilot murder-suicides where the other pilot has desperately tried to get in to save the plane but couldn't. The obvious benefit is that terrorist/lunatics cannot get in to try and crash the plane. I believe that after 9/11 everybody has evolved their thinking so that passengers will always try to overpower terrorists on a plane, thus that threat is reduced considerably. Actually, that evolution actually happened *on* 9/11 as the passengers on that last plane realized what had happened with the 3 previous planes and went after the terrorists with everything they had. Now since Germanwings there's a two-person-in-the-cockpit rule so perhaps the tradeoff has swung back in favor of an unbreachable cockpit door again. However, in my mind, I see a suicidal pilot planning for the time when the co-pilot gets up and leaves to go to the bathroom while a flight attendant or 3rd pilot starts to enter the cockpit, and during the exchange the suicidal pilot catches them both by surprise and pushes them both out and locks the door.
That assumes the pilot leaving the cockpit gets up before the third crew member takes a seat.
Prior to 911, protocol was to negotiate with terrorists and usually that worked out. After 911, when faced with terrorists crashing the plane, most if not all passengers will fight back.
As it should be. That situation will never repeat itself.
Sheep will always do what sheep do. Bleat loudly and die with blood spurting out.
> most if not all passengers will fight back.
No. Most, if not all passengers will bleat and be ready to be stuck with a knife.
And those few times a passenger does something, they'll be charged with a crime, like the gentleman on the subway that subdued a threat... only now he has to spend a year or more in court hearing and spend money he hasn't raised yet.
When the terrorists rise up, WE should rise up. We should not give them a pulpit, a forum, or pretend they're just poor people who got abused.
Take up arms against me or my family? I'll play fuck fuck.
> most if not all passengers will fight back.
No. Most, if not all passengers will bleat and be ready to be stuck with a knife.
And those few times a passenger does something, they'll be charged with a crime, like the gentleman on the subway that subdued a threat... only now he has to spend a year or more in court hearing and spend money he hasn't raised yet.
When the terrorists rise up, WE should rise up. We should not give them a pulpit, a forum, or pretend they're just poor people who got abused.
Take up arms against me or my family? I'll play fuck fuck.
"And those few times a passenger does something, they'll be charged with a crime"
Well, you have to still be alive for that to be a problem, so...
Well, you have to still be alive for that to be a problem, so...