If its any help, our mob only use sky marshals (we call them tail-gunners) for flights on certain "riskey" routes. The tail-gunner is authorised to take whatever action is necesary to elimate the threat (including blowing the
pr!ck away)
in the cabin. In the cockpit
I have that responsebility (captain has a .38)
The sky marshal only makes himself known to the Purser at a pre-determined time. Not even
I know who the hell he is.
So far no shot has been made in anger but there was some saber-rattling by the marshal a couple of months ago on a flight when some drunk arabs got physical about how r@gheads are being treated by the commie government.