A vulture crashed through the cockpit windshield of a small plane in Brazil, startling the pilot and five passengers. The ...

One that isn't so obvious to the average passenger is the reinforcement of the cockpit doors for the protection of the pilots. In the modern era, aircraft cockpit doors can withstand blasts from ...

Discover more of our stories here Following 9/11, airlines quickly reinforced cockpit doors made of bullet-resistant glass or sturdy metal bars. In 2003, the US noted that all commercial aircraft ...

TASS/. The composite material developed for the cockpit glass of Russian warplanes to cut significantly their visibility for enemy radars is already used in the domestic aircraft-building industry ...

narrowly escaped disaster as the bird shattered the glass and dangled precariously in front of the pilot for the remainder of the flight. In Brazil, a vulture crashed into a plane’s cockpit, but ...