Lack of Security
Mathias Körber
mathias at koerber.org
Thu Sep 13 04:26:23 UTC 2001
| You can't get into a cab in NYC that doesn't have a shield that
| protects the
| cabbie from the passengers. Why on earth is the cabin even
| accessible from
| the passenger compartment? Could planes not be constructed to isolate the
| cabin entirely from the passengers? You could certainly provide limited
| seating for pilots that were flying along forward of this partition.
|
| Is there any good reason for the amount of trust which is required in the
| present model?
I think not, and hope that Boeing and Airbus (and other manufacturers) will
start redesigning their planes with an option of a completely separate flight-deck
etc. There will likely be severe drawbacks to this though:
- no medical attention possible to pilots if one suffers a sickness and
a doctor happens to be on board
- no possibility of a steward(ess) of passenger taking over in case
the flight-crew gets disabled.
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