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Gary Boettcher, Member, Board of Directors, Allied Pilots Association, said, Folks, I am a Captain with a major airline. I was very involved with the Arming Pilots effort. Your reprint of this airborne event is not a singular nor isolated experience. The terrorists are probing us all the time.

According to Mark Bogosian, B-757/767 pilot for American Airlines, The incident you wrote about, and incidents like it, occur more than you like to think. It is a 'dirty little secret' that all of us, as crew members, have known about for quite some time.

This brings us to the heart of the matter -- political correctness. Political correctness has become a major road block for airline safety. From what I've now learned from the many emails and phone calls that I have had with airline industry personnel, it is political correctness that will eventually cause us to stand there wondering, How did we let 9/11 happen again?

More on PC showed up in this thread this morning: Political correctness

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I'm following the discussion on Scarborough country. Glad the Jacobsen article is getting wider publicity. It scared me to death. Political correctness will be the death of more Americans, and the extremists are laughing at us.

I won't fly any airline but El Al.