Show of hands-how many of you reading this wish you had a dollar for every time your CFI told you to look outside the cockpit ...

Policies for locking airline cockpit doors — reinforced throughout the industry after the terrorist hijackings on Sept. 11, 2001 — differ among countries. A French prosecutor, Brice Robin, said ...

In the wake of the March 2015 Germanwings airline crash that apparently occurred when the co-pilot barricaded himself in the cockpit and deliberately sent the plane into a fatal dive into the French ...

Modern cockpit doors have safety systems to keep out intruders. They can be opened from the cabin - to help pilots in an emergency. But control is from within. And that has its own dangers. Virtually ...

A person moves the switch of the cockpit door locking system inside a flight simulator of an Airbus A320 in Vienna on March 26, 2015. Prosecutors claiming the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 was ...

Airbus Defence and Space has taken the wraps off its fighter cockpit of tomorrow that it's helping to develop as part of Europe's Enhanced Pilot Interfaces & Interactions for Fighter Cockpit (EPIIC) ...

The fatal crash of a German airliner in the French Alps, apparently a deliberate act by the plane’s co-pilot, seems to have been made possible by security measures brought in following the Sept. 11 ...