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Since 1969, explosives have killed about 2,000 people on planes. "Explosive devices are--and will remain--the primary threat to aviation indefinitely," says Steve Luckey, a former security director of the Air Line Pilots Association. "Bomb components are easy to get, easy to hide, and the payoff is huge...
...quickly subdued by undercover marshals. They did not need to use guns. But because weapons can still make it past airport screeners, as test runs have shown, some security experts say marshals must be given deadly tools. "A gun on board is a piece of emergency equipment," says Steve Luckey, head of the security committee for a U.S. pilots' union. "Of course, there is a risk that it will be taken away or there may be an accident, and training is key. But we're no longer in the era of relying on slingshots as weapons...
...lead to the death of someone who meant no harm - in the same confined space as the plane's controls. Many pilots, on the other hand, want as much security as they can get. "It beats having an F-16 shooting you out of the air," said Steve Luckey, a security specialist with the Airline Pilots Association, referring to the government's solution of last resort when confronted with a hijacked airliner that could be used as a bomb. While TSA won't release numbers, the percentage of flights with an armed air marshal aboard is in the low single...
...proposal to use revolvers rather than the faster-acting automatic weapons most federal law-enforcement agencies use, and to keep them in locked boxes, which would need several seconds to open in an attack. "The TSA is still fighting the law and what thousands of pilots want," says Steve Luckey, security chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association...
...Luckey argues that aircraft are designed to withstand the minor decompression that might result from bullet holes in the fuselage. According to airplane maker Boeing, even onboard explosions have not caused planes to crash. Luckey says pilots would be physically, psychologically and financially screened before being authorized to pack heat, then trained by the FBI and closely monitored on and off duty. "There isn't a pilot out there who wants to carry a gun," says Luckey. "But a weapon is another piece of emergency equipment...