• Liz@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, and you don’t need the TSA for that. Just do as they already do: lock the cockpit.

    • w2tpmf@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Little known fact: many of the pilots behind those locked doors are armed as well.

      The Flight Deck Officer program allows pilots to volunteer to become deputized Air Marshals. They receive training and are issued a badge and a gun.

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          3 months ago

          Police officers are mentally ill? Interesting take.

          Also, we’re talking about pilots that you are already trusting with you’re life and the lives of hundreds of people with you. If they were mentally ill they could just crash the plane and kill you.

          These guys are genuinely invested in maintaining the safety of human lives.

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            3 months ago

            They should continue focusing on that instead of gun politics and their farcical contrived scenarios to have guns on a civil plane.

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      3 months ago

      Well, conceivably those in the cockpit could be manipulated through other threats. Either threats to crash the plane, or threats to hurt the people in the back.

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        3 months ago

        Part of their training includes risk assessment that teaches them to sacrifice individuals if it is in favor of maintaining control of the plane.

        They flat out train them to shoot through a hostage someone is holding. That one person’s life isn’t worth sacrificing the lives of hundreds of others on board as well is casualties on the ground.

      • Liz@midwest.social
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        3 months ago

        Nah, you literally just ground the plane whenever someone does something that rises to that level. Any threat someone could bring on a plane that could take it down is easily found by a bomb dog.