Ask the pilot: Winding up the safest seven years in modern aviation history. Plus: A federal task …

Before getting on to the bigger stuff, let's talk about doors for a minute -- cockpit doors. "One point that never gets made in discussions about post-9/11 air safety," posted a reader in response to last week's column about Sept. 11 and security, "is that of secure cockpit doors."

As most fliers are aware, cockpit entry doors, once flimsy and relatively easy to breach, were redesigned in the… » Full Story on Salon.com