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...improvised. They barred anyone from standing up without permission for the remaining three hours of the flight. Passengers who asked to go to the bathroom were searched and their pockets emptied. The crew checked the passports of male passengers. A flight attendant created a barrier in front of the cockpit and stood guard...
...attendants concede that the crew made some mistakes. They didn't retrieve Reid's shoes until 30 minutes after he was subdued. Then the crew's first reserve officer brought the shoes into the cockpit. Thinking there was a knife inside, he found instead a wire protruding--and a burn mark. Hastily, the crew put both shoes in a safe place reserved on all planes for bomb disposal. The FBI later reported that one shoe had enough plastic explosives to blow a hole in the plane's fuselage. "Yet nobody went and curled up into a ball in the corner...
...combination of government bungling, rare cohesion among airline unions, a push from the enthusiastic National Rifle Association and a little-known historical precedent for cockpit guns has turned an idea few thought would pass into a virtually done deal. Although Bush Administration officials and air-safety experts strongly opposed arming pilots, their resistance has been overwhelmed by a bipartisan wave of support. In July the Republican-led House approved, by a 197-vote margin, a plan that would give a gun to any pilot who volunteered for and could pass weapons training. Now that the bill has locked up backing...
...confidence has waned in other efforts to enhance airline security, initial critics of cockpit guns are embracing them. A key reason may have come last February. The airlines and the TSA had claimed reinforced doors would keep out hijackers. Then an apparently disturbed man took only minutes to burst through the entry to the cockpit of a United Air Lines plane. The pilot had to wield an emergency-crash ax to stop...
...stepped up its efforts to change that. The group was instrumental in getting a measure requiring airlines to provide more extensive training put into a bill permitting guns in the cockpit, which passed the House last month. A bill that the Senate will consider next month includes similar language, requiring 28 hours of instruction and demanding that flight attendants get communications gear that could be used to alert the pilots from anywhere in the plane (a cabin-crew member now must go to one end of the plane or the other to use an internal phone). And on Sept...