The Air Line Pilots Association has advocated for secondary barriers made from mesh or steel cables to be installed on cockpits doors to make it harder to break into, but airlines have said that they aren't necessary.
Five years ago, we built a cockpit mock-up to make sure that everything would fit.
The hazards of going autopilot Maria Konnikova | New Yorker | 4 September 2014 Cockpit automation systems designed to make flying safer and easier have the perverse effect of increasing risk, because they remove the constant pressure on the pilot to pay attention to the plane.
The cockpit profile was altered to make the 747 look like a prototype of an advanced airliner.
After 9/11, changes were made to the security of cockpits in an effort to make hijackings more difficult.
In the cockpit of the last bomber to make it to Moscow, the pilots (Mr. Clooney and Don Cheadle) carry out their assignment as they, too, have been programmed.
But Mr. Black said this evening that the plane's operator, Executive Airlines, told the safety board that it had made modifications to make the cockpit voice recorder work, even though investigators examining the recorder, which was only lightly damaged by the crash, could not find the modifications.
"You have to make the cockpit like your own house for a week in the air," Piccard remarked to the Associated Press a few hours before takeoff.
Formula One machines always have been open-air, open-cockpit racecars, but safety scientists at the FIA Institute, the research arm of the sport's governing body, have been investigating whether canopies should be installed to make the cockpits safer.
Some builders have floated plans to make their cockpits pitch and roll like a full-motion airline trainer, an idea that at least one hobbyist derides as fantasy.
