Saturday, April 19, 2008

Flight Deck Officer To Be Terminated for Negligent Discharge?

From the Shooting Wire, this story about the Flight Deck Oficer who poked a hole in the bulkheat of his US Airways craft last month.

We still don't know the whole story (we may never know), and I'm not one who is inclined to whitewash "Negligent Discharge" incidents under the common exculpatory term "Accidental Discharge".

But it seems to me that the grounds have been fairly laid that the TSA holster/secure requirements are problematic, which suggests that the blame may be shared between " ... Capt. James Lengenhahn, the pilot whose firearm accidentally discharged in the cockpit during a flight last month ..." and the TSA.

I suspect we have not yet heard the last about this incident.

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