Previously, flight crew often used a beverage cart to create a physical barrier for passengers when pilots needed to exit the cockpit mid-flight Kevin Carter/Getty; Southwest Airlines Southwest ...

NEW YORK - Southwest Airlines on Aug 30 began 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 ...

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 days ‒ ...

Aug 29 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 29 story has been refiled to change detect to deck in paragraph 3) Southwest Airlines (LUV.N), opens new tab began Friday flying its first jet with a secondary barrier to ...

A passenger suffering from delirium tried to break into the cockpit of an Easyjet flight from France to Portugal, forcing the jet to return to Lyon airport, police and the company said Saturday. The ...

LOS ANGELES (WKRC) - A man was left confused and frustrated after discovering that an unknown stranger has been flying his plane, landing it without a scratch, and even repaired it. Jason Hong, 75, ...

A Delta Airlines copilot was arrested by around 10 officers, some of whom appeared to be from the Department of Homeland Security, in the cockpit once a flight touched down in San Francisco on July 26 ...

Federal agents entered the cockpit of a Delta plane in San Francisco as soon as it landed on Saturday night to arrest a co-pilot on child pornography charges, according to multiple reports. Agents ...

A video of Nicole Pruitt preventing a woman trying to break into the cockpit has gone viral. Nicole Pruitt, a Georgia grandmother and former Army soldier, stepped in to stop a passenger from storming ...

“It was flipped upside down and the occupants were no longer there,” an official in Alabama said Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, ...