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2018-03-27 Home Front: WoT

Federal Flight Deck Officers: The airline pilots trained to shoot hijackers

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Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 MSM has practiced total silence on this topic since shortly after 9/11. I very much appreciate a foreign news agency that is willing to clue us in.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-03-27 02:45|| 2018-03-27 02:45|| Front Page Top

#2 FTA: No other countries arm their pilots, as far as Sarandrea knows, and some countries don't accept armed pilots on their territory.
And which are the countries who refuse to accept armed pilots? Let us all know so we can refuse to ever fly there.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-03-27 02:46|| 2018-03-27 02:46|| Front Page Top

#3 FTA: Travellers who worry about an armed pilot with mental health problems, or worse?
As if an unarmed pilot with mental health problems isn't just as dangerous to the passengers!

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-03-27 02:58|| 2018-03-27 02:58|| Front Page Top

#4 I had a pilot friend apply and went through all the hassles that homeland security threw up at him. Then if he changed airlines he would have to start over. Must have been a Panetta thing.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2018-03-27 12:11|| 2018-03-27 12:11|| Front Page Top

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