The airlines are rapidly installing the bar configuration as we speak. The
reason is
it can be retrofitted quickly. The program will probably be complete within
a week
or two. The passengers are not supposed to have axes or guns.

Paul Lamar

The door reinforcements and the bar go together to make a door that cannot
be forced by a 200 pound man running 5 MPH. If you can get that sort of
speed up in an airliner aisle then more power to you.

What Jet Blue doesn't tell you is that you could punch through the galley
wall NEXT to the door (it's regular nomex honeycomb), but our Phase II is
solid kevlar doors. We've been doing some gun range testing; the entire mod
will consist of the rear bulkhead of the cockpit and the door.

Phase 1 is designed to be installed in an 8-hour overnighter; at $3100 per
aircraft it's a cheap and quick solution that gets aircraft flying before
the 90 day time limit while allowing us time to engineer a more secure
solution.

If you were referring to the crash axe, that is typically kept in the
cockpit not in the cabin. Hopefully the airport security can keep folks with
guns and axes off the planes.

I'm re-writing that website this weekend (in between flagging SCCA races)
because the dolt who wrote it knows zero about web design but thinks he's
god since he has frontpage.

Mike Harrington

United designed their own and they will be completely retrofitted by Sunday.

Paul Lamar
 
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