U.S. pilots allowed to carry guns.

[AA SLF]

I am appalled at the position being taken by most of the "European" respondents to this thread. You lot appear to be more than willing to let a terrorist come into the cockpit and take over the plane and kill everyone on it!! What do you intend to do - tell Mr. Ben Linen that you "want to talk this situation over"?? The "talking" will be your very imminent death and subsequently the death of all others on the plane when it crashes.

Don't you understand - when a person comes onto the flight deck uninvited it only means somebody other than the pilot is wanting to fly that plane for their purposes. As an SLF I am unwilling to let that happen although it appears you lot are MORE THAN WILLING to let it happen.

On american Frequent Flyer bbs it is more or less agreed now that SLFs will rise up to take on the cockpit invader anyway we can. Bare hands; with blankets or pillows, whatever. At least we pax are going to defend our lives because we clearly understand that you do [/b]NOT[/b] "discuss" things with cockpit invaders regardless. If some of us die, we are willing to take that risk if it means that the rest of the plane lands safely later. Didn't UA-93 have any meaning for you??

Decompression - bah humbug! A single 40 caliber hole is NOT going to result in a blowout. I don't care what caliber of handgun the flightdeck has, just that they have one or more. As I said earlier, I worry a lot more about explosive devices ala PanAm.

I fly first class almost all the time. If I see anyone trying to get into the flightdeck I am leaving my seat as fast as possible to "discuss" the situation MY WAY with that person!!!!

'nuf said ? ? ?

Tripower455 - more power to you. I will fly with you anytime.

dAAvid -

ps - I have re-read this twice and I do not want to make any changes to it. What it says is what I feel from reading the posts on this thread.