2) Hijacking from below the flight deck - Someone was lying in wait and ALREADY INSIDE the E/E bay waiting to commandeer the aircraft shortly after takeoff. Here's the E/E room:
Posted on 07/30/2015 4:45:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In the forward galley area near the L1 door and flight deck, a small access panel sits below the carpet which acts as the gateway to the 777’s electronics and engineering bay. The bay, referred to as the ‘E/E bay’, contains many of the 777’s extremely sensitive systems. A recently posted YouTube video, below, shows how shockingly easy it is to access the E/E bay, and how seemingly little has been done to keep people out.
The systems in the E/E bay vary from fuse panels to the Airplane Information Management System (AIMS), also known as “the brains” of the aircraft. AIMS provides flight and maintenance crews all pertinent information concerning the overall condition of the airplane, its maintenance requirements and its key operating functions, including flight, thrust and communications management, according to Boeing’s description. Also in the E/E bay are several tanks containing oxygen connected to the flight crews’ masks.
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Earlier this month the popular Crikey blog suggested that the technical media “has been at pains not to discuss” an alternative access route to the cockpit for years. But Air New Zealand confirmed the security flaw in the 777, said Crikey, after news surfaced that one of its captains locked a co-pilot out of the cockpit for several minutes. A 2012 video about the 777 E/E bay notes that the breakers for the flight deck door locking system are located in the E/E bay.
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Thanks for telling everyone.
An “expert” on CNN tipped this about half an hour ago.
Yep! Just blab this to everyone!
see post #3
2) Hijacking from below the flight deck - Someone was lying in wait and ALREADY INSIDE the E/E bay waiting to commandeer the aircraft shortly after takeoff. Here's the E/E room:
Here’s how you secure the bay.
Metal door, and frame.
Random number generator in secure location on the ground.
Require 2 flight officers to give unique, and secret codes to get the number.
If an incorrect number is input 3 times, the computer takes over and flies to the destination, or until correct code is input.
You can’t be 100% safe, and if the Captain wants to crash the plane, well, Prayer is pretty much your only option at that point.
ha, like this isn’t very well known to anyone with a desire to know about it
The guy on CNN suggested that someone stowed away in there.
This news is well over a year old.
ping
I saw video of this recently- I think it was Aussie flight crew filming.
I thought at time what a very foolish instruction manual for terrorists.
As a recovering aircraft engineer and as usual, these stories only further fear that is not warranted.
Easy access to the EE bay was extensively covered on a recent broadcast of PBS’s Nova.
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