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Do we trust the pilots not to unlock the door in that situation? "Open the door or the passengers die!"?

Yes we do, because everyone will die anyways.

The reason why 9/11 was possible was because it had never happened. They could have added zero security measures, not even locking the cockpit door, and 9/11 still would probably not happen again. The reason is because before 9/11 the common wisdom was to let the hijackers do what they want. After 9/11 the common wisdom is the plane is going to be used to fly into a building.

But, locking the door is still a good common sense extra security measure.

I mean yes, that's the _logic_. I guess what I'm asking is, is our expectation of pilots to follow that logic sound? Emotion over Logic, that sort of thing.

9/11 has to be the shortest duration of a terrorist gambit in history, it didn't even last the duration of the attack, for those on Flight 93 learned that the rules of the game had changed and responded accordingly.

I guess we can take it a step further, whats to stop a pilot from turning bad?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_pilot

Not the TSA in that case, either.

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