Modern cockpit doors are designed to stop hijackers from reaching the pilots, but the emergency involving a flydubai flight has highlighted the difficulty of responding when the threat is already insi ...

Flydubai incident highlights potential for an insider attack ...

On September 30, the world was rocked by the news of a terror attack in our neighbourhood involving a flydubai aircraft. It ...

Dramatic new video from aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073 has provided the clearest look yet at the desperate battle to save the ...

On modern aircraft, they are hardened barriers. But on the Flydubai plane that made an emergency landing Wednesday, the ...

Captain Smit Machchhar opened the cockpit door after an axe attack by his co-pilot inside a flydubai cockpit, allowing passengers to overpower the co-pilot. Had the door not been opened, and the ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio, 25 Sept. 2014. “Visual acuity in the cockpit is a bigger problem than you might think,” describes Bruce S. Maxwell of Luma Technologies during the SAE Aerospace Systems and ...

Thanks to the seemingly unstoppable advance of electronic and mechanical devices, aircraft manufacturers are constantly upgrading the cockpit environment and the passenger cabin, making flying the ...

The FAA has mandated the installation of secondary physical barriers on the flight decks of all new commercial aircraft to prevent intrusion when the main cockpit door is opened during flight. This ...

The increasing complexity and cost of modern aircraft make maintaining pilot proficiency challenging, advocating for cockpit-specific flight simulators as a practical and safer alternative to ...