The cockpit door of the Germanwings Airbus A320 jet was doing exactly the job it was designed to do: stop intruders. But the man banging on the door wasn’t a hijacker or a terrorist. He was the ...

The captain pounded on the door as the Airbus A320 descended and crashed into a mountain. The information was obtained from the cockpit voice recorder of Flight 9525, which suddenly began an eight ...

Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, 27, whom investigators believe locked the captain out of the cockpit before putting the plane into a fatal descent, had researched the doors’ security on his iPad before ...

focus has turned in part to the Airbus A320’s reinforced cockpit door. According to Marseilles Public Prosecutor Brice Robin, the pilot can be heard on the black box recording trying to wrench ...

On an Airbus A320, a locked cockpit door can be opened through a nearby keypad—as shown in this Airbus video—but that can be overridden by an individual still inside the cockpit via a switch ...

Everybody knows.” If a member of the flight crew doesn’t open the locked cockpit door from the inside, according to a manual for the Airbus A320 available online, the door can also be unlocked ...

After 9/11, cockpit doors were made incredibly strong and were ... the frightening scenario that may have played out aboard the A320 over the French Alps: The person sabotaging the aircraft ...

Prosecution sources in France said Captain Patrick Sonderheimer used “an onboard axe” – part of the Airbus A320’s ... secured the cockpit by flicking the cockpit door switch to the ...

The investigation into the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 has turned toward the co-pilot, whom a French prosecutor says locked the captain cockpit before deliberately flying the plane into the ...

The German newspaper Bild, citing security sources, also reported the pilot tried to slice into the door with an ax, which is part of the normal safety equipment aboard an A320. But cockpit doors ...

151; -- Question: Why does the flight crew keep the cabin door open as the aircraft is being ... the legacy airline flying the 737, A319 and A320 does. You are right, automated weight and balance ...

US investigators have disclosed that a bird-strike involving a Delta Air Lines Airbus A320 last year was severe ... like a bomb going off”. “The cockpit door blew open and a panel blew down ...