What things are in place to prevent a plane from being hijacked now?

Question

since 9/11 what actually is in place to stop the same thing happening again and are these things implented worldwide?

Answer 1

You never know when an armed Federal Marshal is going to be on your flight. The pilots are also locked behind a steel door so that any hijacker(s) won't be able to get into the cockpit. Those are just two examples. I'm sure there must be more.

Answer 2

Immediately after 9/11/01, cockpit doors were strengthened significantly, and the locking mechanisms improved to prevent unauthorized access to the cockpit during flight. Regulations also now prohibit anyone other than flight crew from entering the cockpit during flight unless extensive permissions have been obtained prior to the flight (from the airline, the FAA, the TSA, and most likely the FBI and others as well).

Armed Air Marshals fly on random flights as passengers, and the number of Marshals and frequency of flights they are on have increased since 9/11/01. The FAA has also recently given pilots permission to obtain voluntary self-defense training and now allows them to carry firearms in the cockpit (before anyone complains about that, a bullet may pass through the skin of an aircraft but the hole it leaves will not cause the aircraft to fall apart and while it may cause a decompression event, it is unlikely to be either rapid or explosive).

Answer 3

The crew and passengers--they don't surrender the plane anymore.  Instead they attack, subdue, restrain, and kill hijackers.  

Answer 4

The main reason for a decline in hijacking is that it is no longer in fashion.  A vast number of changes have been made in aviation to reduce the feasibility of hijacking, but it is no longer the fad that it once was.

The current fad and threat is suicide bombers or other people who seek to cause accidents that kill people.  Presumably in years to come that fad will go away, too, to be replaced by some other form of antisocial behavior that fringe groups can use to get airtime on the nightly news.

Answer 5

If I am on board, me. And I ain't B.S.ing

Wow, a whole 3 thumbs down. I'm so impressed that people are interested in what I have to say.

However, if you are on a flight I am on, don't cause trouble. I'm 6'3" @ 220, and I will take you down like a 3 week old kitten. Don't even attempt to climb Mount Pilsman in the name of Allah.

Answer 6

Actualy if you wanted to there still isn't much to stop you. In Australia security has been breached several times recently and in Africa forget it, just look at the latest hijack.

Sure there are armed US Federal Marshals on some flights in the US but some airlines will not allow them on board. There is also greater cockpit security but if you are a fanatic nothing will stop you, just ask the Isralei's, Iraq and Afganistan.

I think peoples attitudes have changed since 9/11 and passengers are more likely to challenge any hijackers when it looks like U are going 2 die anyway.