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Doors Case Study

  The core theme of this week's case study was security around airplanes, airports, and the airline industry. At the time of writing this an  Air India aircraft  bound to London from Ahmedabad has crashed just after take-off. 242 people were aboard and it fell in a residential area. Makes me feel how fragile human lives are and how pertinent it is to have conversations on life around us. My thoughts on first encountering was an humble acknowledge of the fact of how little I know about the rules and regulations that govern this huge industry. Nonetheless, task at hand is to have recommendations around flying millions daily in a metal tube across the globe. My group and I started discussing our impressions in the order given on case study slide. First being the physical security in the cockpit. In a passenger aircraft, cockpit is probably the keystone. Ideally, you would want to restrict access, have failsafes for when security is compromised, ensure the people in control ...