I am a commercial pilot and I spent 20 years in the military as well, 15 of those years was as a UH-60 pilot. I also flew armed. As a pilot I would be more concerned about getting the aircraft on the ground than trying to fight some one off. I would rather have my crew (flight attendant, air marshall) fight off the attacker while I am putting the aircraft on the ground. As we used to say in the Army when in an emergency "Fly the Aircraft."
Thats just me and I am just a helicopter pilot... we are different than those civilian commercial airline pilots so we think differently.
That's what scares the hell out of most of us. If the pilot goes down, who flies the plane?
The attendants need access to firearms too!
Certainly, more Air Marshals!
Very much agreed in regard to his statement of "new normal".
A funny interesting aspect to this subject is that some folks, even here at DC.com, think that fighting from enclosed vehicle spaces is not possible be it the front or rear seat of ones automobile or that of a aircrafts cockpit.
Clearly it is possible...if keyword you think on it and train toward as much.
I'm all for pilots being supported in this effort as per todays new normal.
One other thing, toward getting to the ground or fighting first...my position is fight first steer second.
One cannot assume that getting to the ground is in the hijackers operations outline as a desire or allowance. Same applies to an insurrection interaction on a bus, train, or boat be it commercial or private.
Also we as passengers would be forced to make a decision; Stand up, do something, and risk very serious highly possible injury or even death...or stay seated, do nothing, and risk very serious highly possible injury or even death.
A tough call it would be but in a post 9/11 world such as we live in I figure for myself what exactly do I have to lose...?
Seeing this video reminds me that as it's nice out today, maybe I might knock off work early and go train outside in my backyard with a BB pistol toward point shooting against multiple attackers...with my glasses removed to simulate less than optimal defense/attack conditions.
- Janq
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