Armed sky Marshals on some UK flights

Dirty Harry · Post by **Dirty Harry** » 2003-12-30 12:42am

Probably old news for most of you but I thought it interesting enough to get a mention here.

The story can be found here.[/url]

It seems as if it hasn't been decided yet if these Sky Marshals will be a unit of the police or maybe seperate of it.

So people, what are your thoughts on this.?

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-12-30 01:12am

That's got to be a good job. See the world, shoot some bad guys, meet some cute flight attendants, that sounds fucking sweet!

Dirty Harry · Post by **Dirty Harry** » 2003-12-30 01:23am

Wicked Pilot wrote:That's got to be a good job. See the world, shoot some bad guys, meet some cute flight attendants, that sounds fucking sweet!

heh, the terrorists would probably only go for the planes with the cute flight attendants on as the marshals will be avoiding these ones in the name of staying focused on their jobs

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2003-12-30 03:27am

I take it there's no problem with using firearms on a plane that's in the air? (according to SBS news some British guy in charge of the Pilot's associationg was concerned)

Don't they do something to the bullets that prevents them from going through the plane and spoiling everybody's day? I don't know what they do. Something about teflon, but I don't know how that works.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2003-12-30 03:42am

Maybe they could develop some new kind of gun to combat terrorists onboard airplanes.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-12-30 07:54am

Stofsk wrote:I take it there's no problem with using firearms on a plane that's in the air? (according to SBS news some British guy in charge of the Pilot's associationg was concerned)

Don't they do something to the bullets that prevents them from going through the plane and spoiling everybody's day? I don't know what they do. Something about teflon, but I don't know how that works.

couldn´t you use these anti riot rubber rounds?

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-12-30 08:03am

It's not that great a job. Sky marshals are easy to spot. They're the fattest guy on the plane- their entire job is sitting down and eating airline food. They can keep that job

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-12-30 08:40am

Stofsk wrote:I take it there's no problem with using firearms on a plane that's in the air? (according to SBS news some British guy in charge of the Pilot's associationg was concerned)

Don't they do something to the bullets that prevents them from going through the plane and spoiling everybody's day? I don't know what they do. Something about teflon, but I don't know how that works.

See linky.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-12-30 08:56am

It's a really bad idea to have any armed guards on a plane. For the love of Santa haven't these people watched Con Air?

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2003-12-30 09:37am

Since they've already taken steps to secure the cockpits (which is what they should have done in the first place; for God's sake, my old man used to go up and chat with the pilots during trans-atlantic flights) I don't see what the purpose in having an armed officer on board is. I mean, no one's going to be able to takeover a plane using boxcutters again now are they?

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-12-30 11:23am

Time to start manufacturing phasers

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-12-30 12:00pm

When I saw the saw the headline at 1 am this morning, I thought the UK was promoting more members of the Imperial General Staff.

CNN really needs to clarify their news.