U.S. officials said they will require new airline planes to have a second barrier to make it harder for passengers to break into the cockpit when the main door is open.
FILE - American Airlines pilot captain Pete Gamble, left, and first officer John Konstanzer conduct a pre-flight check in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 Max jet before taking off from Dallas Fort Worth airport on Dec. 2, 2020, in Grapevine, Texas. U.S. officials said Wednesday, June 14, 2023, that they will require new airline planes built after mid-2025 to have a second barrier to make it harder for passengers to break into the cockpit when the main door is open.
U.S. officials said Wednesday they will require new airline planes to have a second barrier to make it harder for passengers to break into the cockpit when the main door is open.The rule will affect airlines that operate scheduled flights, but not charter operators. There is no provision requiring airlines to retrofit current planes.“No pilot should have to worry about an intrusion on the flight deck,” said David Boulter, the FAA’s acting associate administrator for safety.
A secondary barrier is intended “to slow such an attack long enough so that an open flightdeck door can be closed and locked before an attacker could reach the flightdeck,” the FAA said in the rule, published in the Federal Register.Congress directed the FAA in 2018 to require secondary barriers to cockpits, but the agency did not issue a proposal until last August, after it received recommendations from aircraft makers and pilot groups.
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