Cockpit Shield Proposed
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 20. American airlines will be asked soon to put a bulletproof shield round their planes’ cockpits to try to thwart gun-carrying hijackers. The Federal Aviation Administrator, Mr John Shaffer, said yesterday that his agency would soon propose the rule as part of a campaign to cut the number of hijackings.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32252, 21 March 1970, Page 11
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58Cockpit Shield Proposed Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32252, 21 March 1970, Page 11
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