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		"Captain, we're going to take a look in your pilot's case." "OK, let's see. Nav charts, gun, log book." "How long have you been flying with the gun?" "Oh, at least two days" (huffingtonpost.com)		7
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OBBN		2012-05-19 01:05:20 PM

4 votes:

What exactly are the authorities worried about. If an airline captain wants to hijack and crash a plan he doesn't need a gun to do it.

Pockafrusta		2012-05-19 01:06:38 PM

3 votes:

B.F.D.

The pilot has the means to kill everyone anytime that aircraft is in motion. A revolver and 6 bullets won't kill you any deader, but it might protect the cockpit.

/Former Avionics Tech

foxyshadis		2012-05-19 03:06:59 PM

1 votes:

RoyBatty: foxyshadis: Disgruntled employees aren't that kind of movie villain! They always want to take specific people out with them, and if that's not possible, to take people out in a personal way that lets them see the suffering they've caused firsthand. Nosediving a plane would defeat the purpose because he'd be too dead to see anyone else die.

Auburn Calloway worked as a pilot for FedEx, but he had fudged his resume a bit and had greatly embellished his flying experience while serving in the U.S. Navy. When he was scheduled for a disciplinary hearing he panicked, assuming that he'd be fired. He launched a pre-emptive strike at the company that he thought was unfairly singling him out and decided to, in one fell swoop, both provide for his family and punish FedEx. His plan was to hijack a FedEx flight by attacking the crew with a hammer, then take control of the plane and crash into the Memphis headquarters of the company. By using a hammer as a weapon, autopsies on the remains would only show blunt-force trauma, which would be typical in an airplane collision. Thus, no suspicion would fall back on Calloway and his beneficiaries would receive the full amount of the many hundreds of thousands of dollars of life insurance he'd recently purchased.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16812#ixzz1vLMF1BwC

You're right, I DID neglect to consider "what if he wants to crash INTO someone." Also see the loon who crashed into the IRS building.

snocone		2012-05-19 01:54:27 PM

1 votes:

Rent Party: Pockafrusta: Rent Party: I don't have a problem with arming airline pilots, but I do have a problem with pilots arming themselves outside of some sort of training program designed specifically for them.

CSB Time. I dated a woman who's father was a pilot for Alaska Airlines. He was also a right wing union hating FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:SOCIALIZMSSS!!!! gun nutter, but otherwise a really nice guy. Anyway, he did this exact same thing, way before 9/11 happened, only he just forgot it was in his flight bag. They were going to fire his ass, but the union stepped in and saved his bacon. A rich bit of justice.

He got his name in the paper, too.

/CSB

You are a retard. WTF is an armed pilot going to do "outside of some sort of training program designed specifically for them" that he couldn't do by simply rolling the plane and nosing it into the ground at 300MPH? EVERYONE dies in the latter scenario. You either trust the pilot or you don't. A gun makes NO difference when you pilot a flying bomb.

You are a retard. A person trained in the use of a firearm on board an aircraft with access to that firearm could have prevented planes being used as a flying bomb. Or would you bring your boxcutter to a gunfight?

Alternately, some clown with a gun at 35000 feet is likely to get a whole lot of people killed.

So, in summary, you are a dumbass.

Pl;anes only pop like baloons in the movies and vid games.
And nobody gets sucked out.
/uproarious laughter

Rent Party		2012-05-19 01:24:27 PM

1 votes:

Pockafrusta: Rent Party: I don't have a problem with arming airline pilots, but I do have a problem with pilots arming themselves outside of some sort of training program designed specifically for them.

CSB Time. I dated a woman who's father was a pilot for Alaska Airlines. He was also a right wing union hating FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:SOCIALIZMSSS!!!! gun nutter, but otherwise a really nice guy. Anyway, he did this exact same thing, way before 9/11 happened, only he just forgot it was in his flight bag. They were going to fire his ass, but the union stepped in and saved his bacon. A rich bit of justice.

He got his name in the paper, too.

/CSB

You are a retard. WTF is an armed pilot going to do "outside of some sort of training program designed specifically for them" that he couldn't do by simply rolling the plane and nosing it into the ground at 300MPH? EVERYONE dies in the latter scenario. You either trust the pilot or you don't. A gun makes NO difference when you pilot a flying bomb.

You are a retard. A person trained in the use of a firearm on board an aircraft with access to that firearm could have prevented planes being used as a flying bomb. Or would you bring your boxcutter to a gunfight?

Alternately, some clown with a gun at 35000 feet is likely to get a whole lot of people killed.

So, in summary, you are a dumbass.

Curious		2012-05-19 01:14:46 PM

1 votes:

if this guy had to go through the usual anal probing you and i do he wouldn't have made it out of the first airport. he got a pass at first and now ta da, he's caught.

and it's what's wrong with america. rules get put in place and then folks think they don't apply to them. if each and everyone of us had to actually abide by the same rules there would be less rules and what we had would make a lot more sense.