pilots refuse to fly with gun loons onboard

On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:35:31 GMT, in a fit of unbridled digital verbosity, once
again proving the problem is located between the seat and the keyboard, AH#49
"Asshole™#49"@ your.net two-fingered to all:

|Bogart wrote:
|
| On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 15:01:43 GMT, "Scout"
| wrote:
|
| Yep, and that's what happened on the 4th plane. What I want to know is how
| having a sky marshal on board would have made matters worse. Would those
| passengers have died twice?
|
| How would having a SM on board have helped?
|
|Possibly by making sure that the Sky Marshall sits in first class, and
|gets to shoot the first person he sees that attempts to enter the
|Cockpit by force or without the "secret knock."
|
|
| The 4th plane didn't know
| their fate and the fate of the other planes until long after the
| terrorists had taken over the cockpit and killed the pilots. What
| does the SM add that would have changed their final outcome?
|
| He would be armed and would have (I hope) shot the ****ers dead trying
|to get inside.
|After all, who but somebody that was incredibly stupid would try to
|enter the cockpit besides flight personnel?
|
|And no, a bullet that pierces the hull of a plane will not suck all the
|passengers out through it like Bond, James Bond said it would in
|"Goldfinger" when he was chatting to Pussy Galore.

14 psi will barely give 'em a hickey if they stick their neck on it.


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