Investigators say when they looked at the plane's engine, some parts were loose and appeared to be installed incorrectly, ...

The short answer is yes, but the real answer is no. While cockpit doors before the 9/11 attacks were designed to provide a barrier between pilots and passengers for disturbance purposes ...

One such change across the aviation industry was the use of reinforced cockpit doors with a highly secure locking mechanism. Today, it is common for commercial aircraft to have cockpit doors ...

A fuel leak and several improperly installed parts were found inside the engine of an American Airlines plane that caught ...

Major U.S. airlines want the Federal Aviation Administration to delay by two years the requirement set to take effect in ...

Accident investigators are scrutinizing an unsecured cockpit door as a causal factor in the fatal crash of an Van’s RV-10 crash into a factory near Fullerton Municipal Airport (KFUL) in California.

One that isn't so obvious to the average passenger is the reinforcement of the cockpit doors for the protection of the pilots. In the modern era, aircraft cockpit doors can withstand blasts from ...

A passenger on an Alaska Airlines flight this month repeatedly tried to open the cockpit door, prompting flight attendants to barricade the door and have the man restrained until landing ...

After an emergency exit-sized hole opened in the side of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 at 16,000 feet, a separate chaotic episode erupted when the cockpit door mysteriously flew open. That meant the ...

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. — A search is underway for a single-engine plane's cockpit door that troopers said "ripped off" during a flight over Loudoun County, Virginia, Saturday morning. Officials ...

"She then proceeded to make her way back toward the front of the plane and started banging on the cockpit doors asking to be let in and she was screaming," said the passenger. "When it first ...