Reinforced cockpit doors, secondary barriers, armed pilots and undercover air marshals are among the security measures in place to keep flights safe ...

Southwest flew the first US flight with a secondary cockpit barrier. Most of the fleet won't get one for years.

(Reuters) -Southwest Airlines began Friday flying its first jet with a secondary barrier to the flight deck designed to prevent intrusions. The plane - a Boeing 737 MAX 8 which was delivered in recent ...

One of the easiest ways to prevent an airliner from being hijacked or worse is to stop unwanted visitors from gaining access to the cockpit. While the cockpit door is locked during flights, pilots do ...

Modern airliner autopilots still require constant pilot inputs, monitoring, and oversight.

Plane landed in Wisconsin and ‘unruly passenger’ was taken into custody before flight continued to Minnesota ...

The deadly Air India crash last month has renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over installing video cameras monitoring airline pilot actions to complement the cockpit voice and ...

Airbus aims to be the first airliner manufacturer to debut cockpit touchscreen technology and is currently testing the concept on its A350-1000 development aircraft. Airbus aims to be the first ...

The incident reportedly occurred on Saturday, July 26, on a flight from Minneapolis A Delta Airlines copilot was arrested by around 10 officers, some of whom appeared to be from the Department of ...