Commercial Aircraft safety

[tommy]

I haven't read anything on new procedures that airlines will be implementing to protect aircraft while in the air. I'd be happy to hear anything that was talked about or will soon be done if anything.

I have 2 ideas that sound decent on paper.

1) After the pilots enter the plane the STEEL door stays locked all through the flight without even a flight attendant entering at anytime till the plane lands. Cockpit bathrooms.

2)I don't know about you but I'd like a parachute under my seat in a real emergency. We don't want people jumping out of planes but in a real emergency it is a chance to live when there is otherwise no chance at all.

If in an emergency oxygen masks fall from above, instead of sitting and dieing how about we exit the vehicle.

[danny_galaga]

im guessing you are only talking about that most narrowest of air safety issues, the highjacked aircraft? a much biger concern emerging at the moment is the over reliance of gps in navigation. some very serious accidents have occured because of terrain not correctly listed in gps that WAS indicated in regular charts for example. or pilots taking short cuts because it seemed ok by the gps but were outside regulations (which unlike other forms of law, actually are there to protect  ) and thus making safety that much more marginal.

[tommy]

im guessing you are only talking about that most narrowest of air safety issues, the highjacked aircraft? a much biger concern emerging at the moment is the over reliance of gps in navigation. some very serious accidents have occured because of terrain not correctly listed in gps that WAS indicated in regular charts for example. or pilots taking short cuts because it seemed ok by the gps but were outside regulations (which unlike other forms of law, actually are there to protect  ) and thus making safety that much more marginal.

Yes, i was only talking about precautions onboard while in the moment of a hijacking or even an airplane malfunction, although there are many other problems as you spoke of.

[NightGod]

I'm reasonably sure that thing with the locked steel cockpit doors is already in place, and actually was pre-9/11 (though the doors have been reinforced since then), but the terrorists threatened the lives of the flight crew, so the pilots opened the door (since their only training up to that point involved hostage situations, not planes as guided missles).