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Cockpit
Area from which a pilot controls an aircraft or vehicle / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the flight deck of an aircraft. For other uses, see Cockpit (disambiguation).
A cockpit or flight deck[1] is the area, on the front part of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft.
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The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the controls that enable the pilot to fly the aircraft. In most airliners, a door separates the cockpit from the aircraft cabin. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, all major airlines fortified their cockpits against access by hijackers.