[forest]

The Homeland Security bill ordered TSA to arm any and all passenger airliner pilots now. But TSA is throwing up road blocks and should be fired. Pilots will always be the best mentally to command their ship, not some air marshall from nowhere.

[Brian Allen]

<< Pilots will always be the best .... and the ONLY Aircraft Commanders .... >>

"Air marshalls?"

In command?

Not on my bloody Aeroplane!

Rather, give them bibs and a script.

EG: "Would you like me to have the Purser bring you the Chateaubriand, Captain, Sir -- or the Fillet de Baramundi Australien?"

EG: "Would you like fries with that cheeseburger, fellow-air-marshall, Floyd?

[stylin19a]

Pilots almost always had the right to be armed(tho few took advantage of it) under federal law. FAA officials have admitted rescinding the armed-pilot rule ? initiated in response to the 1961 Cuban missile crisis in July 2001, just two months before the Sept. 11 hijackings.

This is not a tin-foil alert. I repeat...this is not a tin-foil alert. ( as he dons his tinfoild hat )

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

The TSA most definately should hold itself to a higher standard than the pilots. Anyone in that cockpit could have seized a plane at any time. Don't forget the ax in the cockpit. A nut could grab that ax any time he wants and start giving orders to the flight crew.