Transponder
  • Mode-S Transponder Design Change
  • Alternate ATC Control Panel in E/E Bay
  • Dedicated "GA Type" Mode C Transponder
  • Prohibit Mode-S Transponder "OFF/STBY" from Cockpit
  • Set the "Off" switch to a second transponder
  • Second "hijacking" transponder
  • Ignore "off" command on transponder in certain circumstances
  • Tie a transponder alert signal to the opening door without pilot canceling the signal
  • Use of current and new transponder equipment in new and novel ways to provide passive, covert, uninterruptible notification of hijacking
  • Continuous transmissions (analog or digital) to record all flight data and transmissions. Use a gound system.

Flight Deck Access
  • Advanced cockpit door technology - secure against attacks and fail-safe for egress
  • Deadbolt on Cockpit Door
  • Cargo type net to supplement door
  • Multiple doors - Man trap (similar to an airlock)
  • Ballistic, shrapnel, fragment & explosive protection for doors
  • Keys for cockpit - procedures for pilot to confirm use of key before door opens
  • Keys for cockpit - reinforce procedures to keep cockpit locked at all times
  • Keys for cockpit - keep key sealed with medical kit
  • Keys for cockpit - they are same key used for defib - consider unlocking/locking defib before/after flight so there don't have to be keys floating around
  • Keys for cockpit - change the locks
  • Consider magnetic locks with coded keypad

Flight Deck Access
  • Tightly control access to cockpit keys
  • Bullet-proof glass for cockpit doors so pilot can see inside cabin
  • Cockpit doors only opened from inside
  • Electric shocks on cockpit door to activate during instrusion attempt
  • Seal off/enlarge cockpit to include forward galley/lavs; separate entrance/exit
  • Install a "security lock chamber" between cockpit and cabin
  • Install a bullet-proof partition in area leading to cockpit door
  • Caged cockpits
  • Install more partitions to isolate more areas in aircraft
  • Lock gate to control access to cockpit (used for sheep) controlled by cockpit
  • Belts worn by flightcrew with special button to activate cockpit door's lock
  • Cockpit door to have blowout panels to vent
  • Make announcement in cabin when "en router" enters cockpit to deter fear about "someone" entering cockpit
  • No labels on cockpit controls

Jump Seat
  • Use jumpseat to interfere with door opening
  • Appropriate person in jumpseat can add safety - don't just blindly do away with jump seat riders
  • Restrict jumpseat access to pilots/engineers
  • Proper screening, training, qualifications and credentials prior to access to cockpit (for jumpseat riders)
  • Method to verify employment & Background checks prior to jump seat access
  • Short term - severe restriction for jumpseats
  • Consider similar issues for cockpit jumpseat to apply to Flight attendant jump seat
  • Relook at some airlines allowance for a passenger to occupy the FA jumpseat

Screening
  • Differentiate between certifications required for crew, mechanics, etc and what access each should have
  • Check credentials in boarding area - not in jetway

Screening
  • Background checks for those conducting cabin interior search
  • Track individual from time they buy ticket until they complete trip
  • Passenger and bag Identification
  • National Authority Security screening
  • Improved Identification of airport, airline and law enforcement personnel
  • Consistant worldwide security requirements/application
  • Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening systems to all flights & tie to other databases
  • Airline identification cards should have a software scrambled encoded data strip

One level Safety for passenger and cargo-carrying
  • Consider the different levels of safety b/w carrier and cargo - is this appropriate
  • Monitor language of all proposals to identify impact to cargo carriers - they carry non-passenger, non crew-members (e.g. courriers, live-stock handlers, etc)
  • Consideration for cargo operators forced to keep door open during t/o and landing
  • Consideration of net for aircraft that don't have doors

Training
  • Don't limit flight attendant FAM training
  • Training for airline flight and cabin crew who have to do cabin interior search per FAA Security directive
  • Better guidelines for cabin interior search
  • Provide training for use of PPD
  • Consider tasking other entities to conduct cabin search (e.g. National Guard)
  • Revised security training for pilots and flight attendants

Personal Protective Device
  • Allow pilots to carry small tool kits onto airplane
  • Arm the pilots
  • Supply small tool kits in each airplane

Personal Protective Device
  • Provide personal protection devices for crewmembers (mace, stungun, gun, etc)
  • Supply two stun guns in cockpit
  • Crewmembers to learn self-defense tactics
  • Crewmembers to learn anti-garrote combat tactics
  • F/A's to wear pagers with emergency alert feature and bullet proof vests

Baggage
  • Limit number/size of carry on
  • Evaluate relationship b/w size and number of carry-ons with quality of screening
  • Fly baggage and passengers on separate flights

Procedures
  • Airport changes to meet new standards
  • Consider use of a second hijacking code - one for normal hijacking where crew can safely return the airplane to ground and second code for suicidal type hijacking
  • Common plan for government, airlines, manufacturers, and authorities for civil aviation security
  • System-of-systems approach
  • Primary focus: identify perpetrators and keep them away from aircraft
  • Use of old vs. new antenna
  • Standardized operating procedures for all airlines re: in flight access to flight deck
  • Rewrite emergency evacuation regs (re: previous suggestion)
  • Special in-flight movie/announcement to tell passengers of new procedures
  • Do not assign seats prior to gate arrival to deter pre-positioning of weapons
  • Disallow passengers to change seats once on board
  • Let appropriate people (captain) know if potential situations
  • Have passengers sign waivers saying airline not responsible for emergency
  • Keep weapon in an electronic lock box in the cockpit

Marshals
  • Armed law enforcement escorts on air carrier flights and at airports

Sky Marshals
  • Directly involve federal investigative, security and military personnel
  • Guard dog(s) on every flight
  • Undercover security officers on every flight
  • Police officer to sit behind "suspicious-looking" persons to alleviate passenger concerns when indicated to flight crew
  • Allow priority seating/free flights to law enforcement personnel (FBI, State police) who are traveling

Airspace Access
  • Obtain clearance for foreign carriers to operate into/over the USS

Cabin Changes
  • Cameras in cabin
  • Install hearing devices at each seat so pilot can monitor conversations
  • Construct one "lav" as safe room, lockable, with cell phone
  • Sleeping gas into cabin in emergency/pilots to have gas masks
  • Depressurization of cabin
  • Forward pressure bulkhead for cabin to allow depressurization issues
  • Have cargo hold bomb containment
  • Panic buttons in cockpit and cabin
  • Use plastic cups/utensils

Automatic Intervention
  • Autopilot activiation in emergency using code entered by flight deck crew
  • Autopilot activation by retinal scan, fingerprints, voice recognition
  • Planes off course will be "taken over" by ground control, flown, & landed
  • Microphone in cockpit wired to ground and activated in emergency
  • Intelligent software to recognize plane is on collision course and, if so, will override input from cockpit

Automatic Intervention
  • Air Bag in nose of airplane to deploy on impact
  • Automatic roof removal and passenger seats ejection with parachutes, seats, and rafts attached

Pilot/Cockpit
  • Pilots wear Sensor Glove coded by pilots for operating controls
  • "PINS" for pilots in order to operate controls
  • More enroutes to maintain FAA presence in cockpit
  • Fingerprint Identification to activate controls
  • Eliminate pilots individual jeppesen kit bags (Maps, charts, OPS manuals) to avoid compromising security

Other
  • Gel Fuel
  • Make crash-surviable video recorder
  • Communication between flight deck and F/A would go through a ground dispatch to to facilitate/ensure notification of emergency gov't agencies
  • Explore use of defensive maneuvering of airplane to knock hijacker off feet
  • Use of ACARS - during hijacking
  • Fill airplane with soap suds to slow down the hijacker

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