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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. — The cockpit door ripped off of a small two-seater plane over Loudoun County on Saturday morning. Pilot Daniel O'Brien was flying the aircraft near the Round Hill area when ...