The moderator of this--"Travel Safety/Security > Checkpoints and Borders Policy Debate"--section, "TWA884", has authorized me to open this thread due to this bill being recently introduced. I speak on behalf of many TSA Federal Air Marshals that this is bill will fix a critical threat which caused the 9/11 attacks, and was plotted again in
July 2003:
A quote from Sara Nelson's February 13, 2019 testimony in a public congressional hearing about aviation security:
During Wednesday's Aviation subcommittee meeting, [Congressman Brian] Fitzpatrick asked Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants International, about [replying on flight attendants and drink-carts to stop someone from rushing an unlocked cockpit door]. Nelson pulled no punches.
"We completely support secondary barriers in all of our aircraft. It's an absurd practice to have flight attendants use their own bodies as the barrier between the cabin and the cockpit."
It's notable that numerous non-regional aircraft do not have drink-carts to assist flight attendants with blocking an attack of an unlocked cockpit. Cockpits either have doors that open outwards or dangerously inwards; there's a very good reason why exit hatches open away from the inside of submarines--the force of the water would breach the hatch after submerging.
https://www.theintell.com/opinion/20...faces-barriers
From Reuters News on February 9, 2019:
The TSA also oversees the Federal Air Marshal Service, which deploys armed U.S. air marshals on flights across the world. But critics have questioned the effectiveness of passenger screening and the air marshal program.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1PX2AZ