[Minutemen]

You see people... you can shoot hijackers on a plane and not bring down the plane.
Lets arm our pilots!

[Semper Paratus]

We should also have a big discount on airfare for police, armed forces, and other professionls if they bring the weapons on board.

[Mixer]

More proof that guns ARE needed on our planes!

[EggsAckley]

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!! We were all wondering a few days ago if guns WERE involved,
and now we see that they were!! Huzzah!! Proof positive. Can't wait to see how the anti-gun crowd spins this one!

[Crowcreek]

Ethiopia -- Land of the free, Home of the brave.

[Hoosier Patriot]

The security men then "took measures against the two men", he said.

Translation: A double tap directed at the center of mass. Good show!

[mad puppy]

bad guys : 0
good guys : 2

I love stories like this. Thanks.

[The Real Eddie01]

UK questions validity of Ethiopian Story...

Eddie01

[B-Chan]

Good work!

At the very least, the TSA ought to let CCL holders, police/sherriffs, and commissioned military officers fly armed.

[FreePaul]

I guess that we will just have to wait to hear all of the reasons why they can shoot hijackers on a Fokker 50 in Ethiopia but our pilots can't be armed. We just have to count on an F-16 shooting our planes down rather than risk a pilot shooting someone.

[Inkie]

But it was not the pilots who shot the hijackers, it was security men.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Lets arm our pilots!

Let's arm our citizens like the Constitution states...

[rface]

Fokker 50 aircraft

[SkyPilot]

This is going to make ABC's Kookie Roberts MAD!

She doesn't think those airplane thingamjobies should be anywhere those gun-dohickeys that fire those nasty millimeters and make that Koboom! sound.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Ethiopian Air

Do they serve meals?

[TC Rider]

I didn't see anything in the article about how many passengers were sucked out of the plane after the shots were fired. < /sarcasm >

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Everyone. please note that there was no "explosive decompression"- you can put a lot of 9 millimeter holes in a modern aircraft without risking very much. (Ask anyone who was in Vietnam or Laos, and saw aircraft coming back day after day FULL OF HOLES- even holes a LOT bigger than 9 mm!) I have seen fighter-bombers that looked like they had been attacked by aluminum-eating giant termites- still flying.

[1Old Pro]

you can shoot hijackers on a plane and not bring down the plane.

Yep, shooting inside the plane may very well have prevented the loss of 50 lives.

[VOA]

Hijackers shot on Ethiopian Air

If someone can confirm/deny this recollection of mine, please chime in.

I think I remember that at least one time when an Ethiopian airliner was hijacked
the security guards dealt with the hijackers without shooting them.
The security guards grabbed the b@stards and threw them out of the plane...which was
still in the middle of it's scheduled flight.

Myself, I would have asked the pilot to fly lower so I could see if (and how many times) they bounced.

[MrB]

National television showed the bodies on its evening newscast.

That's my favorite part. Show future wannabes that they will not only fail, but die without glory.

[bandleader]

AbsoLutely!!!!!