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Old March 25th 08, 01:30 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Matt Whiting
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Default gun discharge in cockpit.

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
Denny wrote:
He is an idiot - res ipsa loquitor

Ahh but, the antigun fanatics will be foaming at the mouth...
Better a plane be hijacked daily than a single accidental discharge
happen...

They should hire me, I've never had an accidental discharge well,
there was that time at the drive in movie, but no one was injured

denny


An accidental discharge is very, very much like a gear up landing. There
are those that have had them and those that will.


I don't buy that. I know several old pilots who completed entire flying
careers (40+ years) without a gear-up landing. I also know several
people who have went a lifetime without accidentally discharging a
firearm. I'm up to 37 years, but I'm still handling guns and flying so
I can't claim victory just yet! :-)

Neither of these events is inevitable.

Matt