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New Cockpit Doors Installed
 The
Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced
that more than 10,000 aircraft serving the United States are now equipped
with new, hardened cockpit doors, making air travel safer for passengers
and crews.
U.S. and foreign airlines have met their deadline to equip aircraft serving
the U.S. with new, hardened cockpit doors, designed to stop intruders,
as well as small-arms fire and fragmentation devices such as grenades.
The purchase of each cockpit door typically costs the airlines between
$30,000 and $50,000. The cost varied for each airline depending on the
number of aircraft being retrofitted for each model type. Congress originally
appropriated $100 million to the FAA to distribute to U.S. airlines for
aircraft security enhancements, $97 million of which were given to the
airlines to help defray the costs of cockpit doors (approximately $13,000
per door).
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