Airline pilots could be carrying guns in spring

Charleston Gazette;  November 27, 2002 ;     619 words ...WASHINGTON - Commercial airline pilots could start carrying guns into the cockpits as early...provision allowing pilots on passenger planes to carry weapons if they're qualified and trained. Al Aitken, spokesman...said he expects more than 30,000 of the 100,000 U.S. airline pilots will ...

Let airline pilots have guns

Daily Breeze;  July 19, 2002 ;     369 words ...Let airline pilots have guns At issue: Should airline pilots be armed and trained to use handguns in order to...Representatives voted 310-113 last week to authorize arming airline pilots who volunteer and are trained to use handguns as...

Able Airline Pilots Should Fly Past 60

Albuquerque Journal;  April 5, 2005 ;     223 words ......Administration decided that commercial airline pilots had to retire at age 60 -- no ifs...fast on pilot retirement age. A dozen airline pilots, backed by a pilots' union and some...60-year rule in the U.S. Supreme Court. Airline pilots face the most stringent health guidelines...

Cop Group Joins Pilots' Union In Call To Arm Airline Pilots; Law...

U.S. Newswire;  September 26, 2001 ;     363 words ......measure to arm America's commercial airline pilots. "Pilots are already responsible...specially trained and qualified airline pilots to be armed follows on the heels of a similar call by the Airline Pilots' Association. In meetings with...

ALPA Places Ad to Honor Military Service of Airline Pilots and Call for...

PR Newswire;  March 23, 2003 ;     438 words ......that represents most of the nation's airline pilots, has placed a full-page color advertisement...Call to honor the military service of airline pilots in the Iraq war, and call for government...the war. The advertisement notes that airline pilots at many carriers have been called ...

CAPTAIN BOB LAMBERT AIRLINE PILOTS SECURITY ALLIANCE CAPTAIN BOB LAMBERT...

Washington Transcript Service;  August 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ......CAPTAIN BOB LAMBERT PRESIDENT, AIRLINE PILOTS SECURITY ALLIANCE CAPTAIN JON SAFLEY PRESIDENT, COALITION OF AIRLINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION [*] LAMBERT: Good...is Captain Bob Lambert of the Airline Pilots Security Alliance. Today we're...

Federal Aviation Administration tightens procedures for airline pilots who...

AP Worldstream;  June 17, 2003 ;     399 words ......Dateline: WASHINGTON After a doubling of airline pilots failing sobriety tests, the government...the cockpit. Last year, 22 commercial airline pilots in the United States tested positive...fraction of the approximately 75,000 U.S. airline pilots but enough to cause the Federal ...

Shoulder-Launched Surface to Air Missiles A Threat to Commercial Aviation,...

U.S. Newswire;  August 13, 2003 ;     301 words ......U.S. Newswire/ -- The Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations (CAPA), which represents...Spokesman, said, "The fears of our nation's airline pilots were realized yesterday as an SA- 18...President of CAPA said, "The Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations is calling on the ...

CAPA.(Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations)(Brief Article)

Airport Business;  June 1, 2005 ;     18 words ...CAPA--The Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations calls on TSA to expedite biometric identification plans at airports.

Airline pilots union to begin drug program

Chicago Sun-Times;  November 30, 1986 ;     408 words ...WASHINGTON The union representing most airline pilots has announced it is undertaking a new...figures on how many of the nation's airline pilots use illegal drugs. There has never...reject proposals calling for testing of airline pilots for drug use, arguing such testing...

Arming airline pilots

Plane and Pilot;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......nothing funny about the need to arm airline pilots. Born in Kansas, however, where we...firearm training kept us awestruck. Armed airline pilots will go through psychological profiling...advertise that less than one percent of airline pilots will be armed in the immediate future...

Airline pilots.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  September 20, 2008 ;     132 words ...Airline pilots yesterday urged the Government to launch an inquiry into the collapse...number of concerns they want put under the microscope. The British Airline Pilots Association said it could not understand how XL planes were Kown back...

Arming airline pilots is a risk worth taking. (the last word).(air...

Insight on the News;  June 24, 2002 ;     700+ words ......should have permitted the arming of airline pilots. Despite the deaths of more than 3...al-Qaeda terrorists. The failure to arm airline pilots under such circumstances has been a...been commandeered. Obviously, arming airline pilots is not without risk, but arguments...

Airline pilots urged to shop their drinking colleagues.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  April 11, 2001 ;     78 words ...AIRLINE pilots will inform on colleagues who drink while on duty under proposals to crack down on the industry's alcohol problem. The British Airline Pilots' Association has given its backing to a Peer Pressure policy where...

Airline pilots urged to shop their drinking colleagues

Evening Standard - London;  April 11, 2001 ;     79 words ...AIRLINE pilots will inform on colleagues who drink while on duty under proposals to crack down on the industry's alcohol problem. The British Airline Pilots' Association has given its backing to a "Peer Pressure" policy where...