[tickles]

Commercial airlines are under Federal Aviation Administration orders to install new, heavier cockpit doors by April 9, 2003. They must lock from inside the cockpit and be strong enough that terrorists can't shoot off a lock or blow up the door.>>>>>>>>>>

so how does one gain entrance if for some reason all personal inside are inconpacitated and someone needs to fly the plane? Oh I suppose they just shoot it out of the air rather then letting it try to land? (ok maybe I watched airport or whatever to many times, lol)

[supercat]

so how does one gain entrance if for some reason all personal inside are inconpacitated and someone needs to fly the plane? Oh I suppose they just shoot it out of the air rather then letting it try to land? (ok maybe I watched airport or whatever to many times, lol)

More to the point, if the cockpit door really is unbreakable, then any terrorist who manages to get even momentary control of the cockpit via any means will be completely unstoppable. By contrast, if the pilot is armed and the cockpit door is of a design that takes a minute or so to break down, then even a terrorist who takes out a pilot would have to worry that once the door breaks down he's only got a certain amount of ammo--not enough bullets to stop all the attackers.