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.
1 posted on
02/22/2003 10:11:09 AM PST by
forest
To: forest
<< 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?
2 posted on
02/22/2003 10:39:01 AM PST by
Brian Allen
(This above all -- to thine own self be true)
To: forest
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 )
3 posted on
02/22/2003 11:52:10 AM PST by
stylin19a
(it's cold because it's too hot...- Global Warming-ists explanation for cold wave)
To: forest
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.
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