Feeling Safer Yet?
Mar 25th, 2008 at 6:51 am by Susie
Geeze, I think I would have had a heart attack:
DENVER (AP) — A gun belonging to the pilot of a US Airways plane went off as the aircraft was on approach to land in North Carolina over the weekend, the first time a weapon issued under a federal program to arm pilots was fired, authorities said.
The ”accidental discharge” Saturday aboard Flight 1536 from Denver to Charlotte did not endanger the aircraft or the 124 passengers, two pilots and three flight attendants aboard, said Greg Alter of the Federal Air Marshal Service on Monday.
”We know that there was never any danger to the aircraft or to the occupants on board,” Alter said.
Something doesn’t add up here since guns don’t just go off usually without being handled in some fashion. So what was the pilot doing actually handling the weapon while supposedly flying the aircraft?