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Pilot's gun discharges on US Airways flight
wcnc via Drudge Report ^ | March 23, 2008 | DIANA RUGG

Posted on 03/23/2008 6:14:42 PM PDT by RDTF

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-- A US Airways pilot’s gun accidentally discharged during a flight from Denver to Charlotte Saturday, according to as statement released by the airline. The statement said the discharge happened on Flight 1536, which left Denver at approximately 6:45am and arrived in Charlotte at approximately 11:51am.

The Airbus A319 plane landed safely and none of the flight’s 124 passengers or five crew members was injured, according to the statement. It was a full flight. An airline spokeswoman said the plane has been taken out of service to make sure it is safe to return to flight. A Transportation Safety Administration spokeswoman reached by WCNC Sunday said the pilot is part of TSA’s Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) program, which trains pilots to carry guns on flights.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; airlines; armedpilots; banglist; ffdo; tsa; usairways
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1 posted on 03/23/2008 6:14:42 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: RDTF

Someone was playing cowboy in the crouch pit.


2 posted on 03/23/2008 6:17:17 PM PDT by boomop1
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To: RDTF

Um, guns don’t typically “accidentally” discharge.


3 posted on 03/23/2008 6:17:49 PM PDT by coloradan (The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: RDTF

WTH? I’m betting it was an unholstered Glock.


4 posted on 03/23/2008 6:18:37 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Ask me again tomorrow.)
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To: RDTF

So, did the plane decompress explovely?.................hmmmmmmm?


5 posted on 03/23/2008 6:18:41 PM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: P8riot

explovely = explosively


6 posted on 03/23/2008 6:19:09 PM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: coloradan

NO they don’t. And sitting behind a locked, reinforced door, means he should not have it in Condition One. No reason for a round to be chambered.


7 posted on 03/23/2008 6:19:32 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: coloradan

what did it impact? No damage anywhere? Was it a magic bullet?


8 posted on 03/23/2008 6:19:32 PM PDT by Eternal_Bear
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To: RDTF

Guns don’t go BANG unless you hit the “go” button.


9 posted on 03/23/2008 6:19:59 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Only infidel blood can quench Muslim thirst-- Abdul-Jalil Nazeer al-Karouri)
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To: P8riot

Nope. (Sounds of shock ripple through anti-gunners.)


10 posted on 03/23/2008 6:20:05 PM PDT by coloradan (The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: RDTF

Uh huh. I want more details. Like the passenger list.


11 posted on 03/23/2008 6:20:13 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: P8riot

explovely is a word in search of a definition.


12 posted on 03/23/2008 6:21:12 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Ask me again tomorrow.)
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To: RDTF
I wonder if the pilot might be a former DEA angent?
DEA AGENT SHOOTS OWN FOOT
13 posted on 03/23/2008 6:21:51 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: RDTF

Speaking of that, what’s the protocol if a pilot suddenly decides to shoot dead his copilot, for whatever reason, then hides behind those reinforced cockpit doors?


14 posted on 03/23/2008 6:22:52 PM PDT by seacapn
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To: RDTF

Oh man I gotta fly tomorrow and now I gotta worry about rogue handguns going off by themselves endangering planes full of innocent people.


15 posted on 03/23/2008 6:23:00 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: RDTF

Pressurized cabins are no place to play with guns.

16 posted on 03/23/2008 6:23:11 PM PDT by Cvengr (Fear sees the problem emotion never solves. Faith sees & accepts the solution, problem solved.)
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To: driftdiver

Think about all the thousands of things that could go wrong on that plane and you’ll sleep a lot better.


17 posted on 03/23/2008 6:24:24 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Ask me again tomorrow.)
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To: mountn man

or this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23759338

D.C. Officer Shoots Self In Foot
updated 5:01 p.m. ET, Sat., March. 22, 2008


18 posted on 03/23/2008 6:24:49 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: RDTF
I'll bet the clean up crew had a big job cleaning all those seats.

AD in the cockpit?...hmmm.

19 posted on 03/23/2008 6:25:05 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: RDTF

Dollars to donuts the pilot was playing with it. Weapons don’t “accidently” discharge without someone pulling a trigger. In all my years of being around weapons I have never had one discharge without some input from me.


20 posted on 03/23/2008 6:25:06 PM PDT by infantrywhooah
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