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REAL LIFE NEWS: MAYBE GUNS IN THE COCKPIT WEREN'T SUCH A GREAT IDEA AFTER ALL...

by Hazed

A US airline pilot who was carrying a gun on board his plane, has now entered the record books as being the first person to fire a weapon issued under the federal program which was brought in to prevent further hijackings after 9/11. Unfortunately, he didn't fire his gun to thwart anybody or anything: it went off accidentally while the plane was preparing to land.

The flight was a US Airways flight from Denver to Charlotte, North Carolina and it was carrying 124 passengers and five crew. The Transportation Safety Administration hasn't given out many details of the incident: we don't know who the pilot was, how the gun came to go off, or whether the bullet hit anything important. The TSA has reassured us all that the pilot was "authorized to be in possession of the weapon and he completed the appropriate training."

Well, that's ok then - at least the accident was caused by a trained person. Who knows what would have happened had an untrained person accidentally fired the gun?

The unnamed pilot is currently grounded while the incident is investigated.

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