Arming Airline Pilots
Arming Airline Pilots: A Good Solution to a Bad Problem Following September 11th, the nation began questioning the safety of the crew and passengers aboard it’s airlines flights. Many solutions were proposed, including the very controversial issue of arming cockpit crews with firearms. Commercial airline pilots should be armed because they work in the most crucial portion to the safe operation of an aircraft, the cockpit. If you really think hard enough about it, anything on board an aircraft can become a weapon. A beverage cart, a seat belt strap, even a soda can. “The Obvious Solution” states: “My 10 year old son thought it was cool when he figured out how to bend and then rip open an aluminum can, tearing it into a sharp edge… (paragraph 3) Doing this could easily be used to injure, or even kill the pilots allowing a highjacker to gain access to the controls and boom S
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Obvious Solution, Air Marshal, Bad September, Positioning Systems, Secretary Mineta, National Guard, Norman Mineta, airline pilots, september 11th, marshal program, flight controls, controls flight, Airline Pilots, air marshal program, air marshal,
Approximate Word count = 600
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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