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...from anti-gun Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts, the upper chamber will probably send it to the President for his signature. "All sides of the political spectrum recognize that pilots need to be able to defend the cockpit with lethal force," says Stephen Luckey, a former 747 captain who is the security chief for the Air Line Pilots Association...
...pilots' lobby complains that current security measures are unreliable and contends that pilots are the last line of defense against hijackers' turning planes into guided missiles. In Luckey they found a prominent and credible advocate. The barrel-chested special-operations Vietnam veteran was one of the first civilian pilots selected for the U.S. armed antihijacking corps, in 1974. Since 9/11 he has devoted hundreds of hours to lobbying Congress and talking to the media. He has persuaded reluctant Washington bureaucrats that pilots have a unique case: "We're the ones who strap our asses to the target every...
...lecturers delivered the grim news: Flying is far less secure than the pilots hoped, Congress promised or the traveling public believes. Deadly weapons get onto planes every day. Baggage goes unchecked. "There are fundamental flaws in the government's approach to airline security," says former Northwest Airlines pilot Stephen Luckey, who heads ALPA's Security Committee. "They're worrying about nail clippers, and failing to treat the more significant threats...
...airport security directors. The TSA says it expects Congress to approve a $4.4 billion supplemental budget request, and that it hasn't decided on offices. Mead's testimony only increased the pilots? sense of vulnerability. "Three thousand people died on Sept. 11 because eight pilots were killed," says Luckey. "Little has been done since then to provide effective protection...
...uniformed flight crews are often searched several times in a single day, and the pilots are getting so fed up that they have begun talking openly of striking or staging a work slowdown like the one that helped make the summer of 2000 the most delayed in history. Stephen Luckey, head of the Air Line Pilots Association's national security committee, says he gets dozens of calls a day from pilots who have been stopped by security and, in many cases, subjected to more aggressive searches than ordinary passengers. An airline captain told TIME that while in uniform...