[geeks] Hijacked

[D.A. Muran-de Assereto]

If I remember correctly, all of the cockpit doors on airliners
are lockable, and only open from the inside. I believe current
FAA regs require the cockpit door to be closed and locked while
the aircraft is airborne.
This does not mean that the crew complied, of course, or that the
door was not forced open through threats to the passengers or
cabin crew.

There are many ways that an aircrew can let the ground know they
are being hijacked, the most widely known being changing the IFF
transponder code, as has been shown on a few movies.

And as far as ridiculous hijackings go, back during the Reagan years
a Cuban expatriate hijacked a commercial airliner back to Cuba using
a GALLON OF GASOLINE and a lighter.

Dave Muran-de Assereto


> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
> Of Mike Dombrowski
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 19:51
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Hijacked
> 
> 
> >> "Hijacked with knives", WITH KNIVES. A decently strong lockable door 
> on 
> >> our planes would have saved 10s of thousands of lives.
> >
> >A locked door doesent stop "open the door or I start killing people".
> 
> No, but it would most certain stop "crash plane and kill thousands." I 
> think that any sane person, given the choice between having all the 
> people on the plane killed and having all the people on a plane killed 
> and many thousands more die would choose the first. Or a door would 
> give the pilot time to contact ground support and tell them what is 
> going on. At which point if the ground can make a decision.
> 
> Mike
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