Anti-hijack contraption
Investigator Martin Gardiner alerts us to a newly patented (U.S. patent #7,014,147, granted March 21, 2006) anti-hijacking system. (Click on the image to see an enlargement.) The inventor describes it three-stoogically:
This low cost non lethal Anti Hijacking System is… a last line of defense against a single or team of would be hijackers….
When one or more person is trying to over power the pilots, this anti hijacking system can provide a non-lethal last line of defense. Doors on the cockpit may not be penetration proof. When pilot or flight attendant is confronted with a situation where the pilot’s door is about to be penetrated, a concealed stainless steel net from below the carpet will hoist up all people to the ceiling or simulations side by side winch activation will hold the trapped people by the wall immobilizing them.
The inventor is Zoltan Egeresi of Santa Cruz, California, of whom we shall have more to say.