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ALPA calls on FAA to require ‘secondary’ flight deck barriers
The largest US pilot union is urging the US government to take additional steps to prevent passengers from gaining access to flight decks, saying a recent spike in air-rage incidents signals a need for better security. (www.alpa.org) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This has not been thought out very well. What about egress in an accident? Or the aircraft experiences an on board power failure? The pictures aren't very clear about operation. A roll up barrier would be a disaster.
Absurd nonsense. The ALPA are ridiculous supplicants of the fascist CY FAA bureaucrats. They all deserve to be kicked out the planes at lets says 35k feet or so. There are enough pilots among us we will figure out how to get it on the ground and of course open bar for everyone on the way down. Fight fascism, join the insurgency, thats the only way possible we can maintain our freedom. The perpetually irrationally fearful should stay in their closets and never come out let them mummify in place.
Until things straighten out, I'm driving.
I am surprised Boeing and Airbus haven't designed New aircraft with enhanaced security measures in place. I imagine an enlongated cockpit area, with a set of lavatory and galley just for the pilots, segregated from the rest of the plane (No doorway to main plane cabin) and their own entrance/exit from the plane. They elongate planes to add more customers, why not do so for security?
Extend the cockpit? Nothing like upsetting the aerodynamics of the aircraft.
They already extrnd aircraft cabins to make new and larger variations of the same aircraft body (-200, -300, -400, etc.).