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Adrian Midgley wrote:
That was the thinking behind civil aviation security....<esr> Arm all passengers on boarding </esr> I mentioned that idea to an airline MD. He went "Hummm". But logical. Jerry Pournelle noted that until fairly recently US serving officers were _required_ to go armed while travelling in uniform - evens the odds.
Since he can crash it anyway arming the pilots seems like a smarter idea to me. Until US serving officiers are carrying non-projectile weapons routinely I think it is probably best to leave that one. Remember the US colour code their weapons due to the poor literacy rate of General Infantry, so not rapidly depressurising an airliner is probably a bit subtle for some of them. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.