sci.physics

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:04:01 -0500, * US * wrote:


>and disarmed the pilots.

Actually, it was the FAA, after no one bothered for 40 years to carry
a gun:

"According to FAA officials, the rule required airlines to apply to
the agency for their pilots to carry guns in cockpits and for the
airlines to put pilots through an agency-approved firearms training
course.

The aviation agency said, however, that throughout the life of the
rule not a single . air carrier took advantage of it, effectively
rendering it "moot," according to one agency official.

"In the past, FAA regulations permitted pilots to carry firearms in
the cockpit provided they completed an FAA-approved training program
and were trained properly by the airlines," FAA spokesman Paul
Takemoto told WND in a voice-mail message. "That was never put into
effect because no requests for those training programs were ever made.
…" "

To repeat:

"NO REQUESTS FOR THOSE TRAINING PROGRAMS WERE EVER MADE"

No pilot would have been armed on 9/11 regardless of the status of the
regulations.