Sentence examples for deck door from inspiring English sources

How secure is the flight deck door?

He also hammered on a flight deck door as the plane came in to land.

"My pleasant surprise is the roof deck door doesn't lock, so you can't lock yourself out," she said.

Had she been disruptive like former Stone Roses singer Ian Brown, who threatened to cut off an air steward's hands and banged on the flight deck door?

He became agitated and, in the words of a complaint filed at a federal court (and quoted in the Salt Lake Tribune) "threw peanuts and pretzels at the flight attendant and at the flight deck door in an apparent attempt to protest the airline's policy banning electronic cigarettes".

Even with procedures to keep cockpit doors secure, implemented after September 11 , 2001 she says, "Safety and security does not stop at the flight deck door.

Airliners have been fitted with strengthened flight deck doors - intended to prevent intruders from taking control - since 9/11.

When the Captain briefly left the cockpit, the First Officer locked the flight-deck door then set the controls of the Airbus A320 on a fatal descent into the French Alps.

Nobody can imagine a top-deck door directly above the first, because both must have emergency slides, and if the doors are too close they would interfere with each other while in use.

All British planes already have been fitted with bulletproof, intrusion-resistant doors on flight decks, and foreign airlines operating in Britain must now keep flight-deck doors locked, the Transport Secretary, Alistair Darling, said.

Commentators of varying degrees of authority have attempted to fill the blank canvas with theories ranging from an accident to suicidal tendencies on the flight deck, and conspiracies of a complexity that would seem farfetched in a disaster film.Hijacking seems unlikely: flight-deck doors are locked and sturdy.