Pilot’s Gun Fires on US Airways Flight
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.24.08 | 11:27 AM ET
Details are sketchy about the incident, which took place Saturday in the cockpit of a US Airways flight from Denver to Charlotte. The Charlotte Observer reports, however, that it was an accident and nobody was hurt.
The pilot of the Airbus A319, who hasn’t been named, apparently “was allowed to carry the firearm as part of the Federal Flight Deck Officer program run by the Transportation Security Administration.” The TSA and Federal Air Marshals are investigating.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
craig of travelvice.com 03.25.08 | 9:06 PM ET
I wonder if the bullet passed through the skin of the aircraft… Would be interesting to hear the black box recording of the cockpit