Game On! at US Airways

[Muppets]

Guns don't kill people, I kill people.......

Unfortunately most FFDOs who actually got to shoot someone would end up looking more like that Pvt. Upom guy in Saving Private Ryan....Bottom line, theseguys are never going to fire their weapon for a real threat....I know it, you know it.

 

[Donsa320]

I didn't say pilots were packing, I said it was in the FAR's...and it was. Something like..."unless authorized by the certificate holder (airline), no pilot may have in their possession on the flight deck." It had been there ever since the first Mail flights.

There was a fairly substantial re-write of the regs in the late 90's, 2000 or early 2001 and that particular part of the reg was removed. Prior to that, it was in there. Sorry, I don't collect out of date FAR books. You'll have to prove me wrong on that one.

...and yes, you are correct...the guy who told me about when he carried was flying through the 60's and 70's.

I guess we will have to agree to disagree. The CARs and later the FARs never mentioned guns and cockpits before we all had to submit to security lines. Maybe Avbug will jump in here, he goes back a ways also. I go back to the 1950's. After the X-ray machines were turned on it became moot.
I usually could tell who had a gun because they would haul their Flight Bag along to the motel on overnights while the rest of us left them in the airplane or in ops which were not secure in those days.

 

[regionaltard]

Ok I understand your point and I contend that had the FFDO program been in effect on Sept 10th then we would remember Sept 11 as the day that followed because the terrorists would have been shot and killed and the twin towers would still be standing today!!

I contend that simply not training pilots to cooperate with hijackers would have been enough.