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No one on board knew a gun went off???
1 posted on 03/24/2008 12:39:22 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

No bias it that headline is there? Nope....none whatsoever.


2 posted on 03/24/2008 12:41:01 PM PDT by beltfed308 (Heller: The defining moment of our Republic)
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He was just testing the MythBuster’s story...


3 posted on 03/24/2008 12:41:47 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (IX-XI -- numquam didici)
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H&K .40 — I assume a USP, which has a manual safety/decocker and a heavy first trigger pull in DA.

How the hell do you have an AD with that? I immediately thought Glock when I read the story....


4 posted on 03/24/2008 12:41:51 PM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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I said I wanted BLACK coffee!!! BLAM!

lol


5 posted on 03/24/2008 12:42:04 PM PDT by Slapshot68
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Another desperate attempt by Liberals in anticipation of the SCOTUS ruling that gun-bearing is a personal right.


6 posted on 03/24/2008 12:42:06 PM PDT by pabianice
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"Ya gotta nip it in the bud!"


8 posted on 03/24/2008 12:45:00 PM PDT by quark
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I bet that was really noisy!


9 posted on 03/24/2008 12:45:02 PM PDT by DakotaGator
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They were just board in the cockpit and wanted to have some fun. :-)

Seriously though this does reflect badly on all pilots with guns.

Just watch how this all comes out with calls to remove guns from the cockpits because pilots aren’t responsible enough to handle them.

But they are responsible enough to pilot the planes.


10 posted on 03/24/2008 12:45:18 PM PDT by skyman
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What an idiot.

Aside from why the heck was he playing with it but What did the bullet hit and why didn’t anyone on the plane hear it?


13 posted on 03/24/2008 12:46:15 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (The fence is "absolutely not the answer" - Gov. Rick Perry (R, TX))
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“As for the pilot’s future employment with US Airways, the spokesperson for the airline told ABCNEWS.com that it’s against company policy to divulge any information about the employee.”

Reminds me of the stories about US naval vessels running aground. You’re pretty much finished, if you’re the Admiral in charge.


16 posted on 03/24/2008 12:51:18 PM PDT by Brilliant
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This isn’t possible. We all know that when a gun is fired in an airplane, it will blow a hole that opens up and sucks everybody out.


18 posted on 03/24/2008 12:52:27 PM PDT by umgud
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The pilot is supposed to keep the gun in the holster at all times. Then, it won’t go BOOM.

Playing “show and tell” in the cockpit is dangerous.


21 posted on 03/24/2008 12:56:57 PM PDT by aviator (Armored Pest Control)
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Too bad we’ll never hear the “rest of the story”. I wonder if the co-pilot was in the cockpit at the time. And there are a number of critical things in the cockpit that might not withstand a direct hit. There’s redundancy all over the electronics of these planes, but what about things like the throttle?


23 posted on 03/24/2008 12:58:14 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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24 posted on 03/24/2008 12:59:00 PM PDT by HAL9000 ("If someone who has access to the press says something over and over again, people believe it"- B.C.)
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Did you see this yet? I’m betting he was overcome by the urge to “show and tell”. :-) Even so, there’s NO EXCUSE for an AD...especially in a cockpit! Sheesh...I’ll bet that was loud!


26 posted on 03/24/2008 1:02:30 PM PDT by hiredhand (Check my "about" page. I'm the Prophet of Doom!)
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""This was probably a bit of a fluke.""

Ya think?

28 posted on 03/24/2008 1:12:53 PM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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NOT an "accidental discharge"...It is a NEGLIGENT discharge.

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33 posted on 03/24/2008 1:22:58 PM PDT by SiVisPacemParaBellum (Peace through superior firepower!)
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It just amazes me that people accidentally discharge a firearm. Short of a mechanical malfunction of course.


34 posted on 03/24/2008 1:23:02 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon
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Flight deck officers must requalify for the program twice a year; the pilot involved in Saturday's incident requalified in November 2007.

Must have slept through the part where they said, "Don't play with your gun on the plane."

43 posted on 03/24/2008 1:28:28 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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Good thing it was only a pistol.
44 posted on 03/24/2008 1:30:24 PM PDT by caveat emptor
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