Secure cockpit doors?

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman_at_kih.net>
Date: Wed Sep 12 15:00:40 2001

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_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ernest
-> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:46 AM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Secure cockpit doors?
->
->
->
-> ----- Original Message -----
-> From: "Bill Sudbrink" <wh.sudbrink_at_verizon.net>
-> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
-> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 7:10 AM
-> Subject: Re: OT: World Trade crash...
->
->
-> >
-> > Mike Ford [mikeford_at_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.
->
->
Received on Wed Sep 12 2001 - 15:00:40 BST