An old story about how an armed pilot stopped a hijacking. Back from the time when all commercial airline pilots had to carry guns when they flew.
Thanks to Kansas State Rep. Terri Lois Gregory for the link.
Until now it was largely forgotten, a brief, tragic incident that lay buried in fading newspaper accounts and the memories of only a few, but the shooting of a hijacker by an airline pilot almost 50 years ago has taken on a new significance today.
It occurred shortly before noon on July 6, 1954, when a strapping teen-ager armed with a pistol commandeered an American Airlines DC-6 at the Cleveland Airport, only to be shot and fatally wounded by the captain.
The shooting ended the life of Raymond Kuchenmeister, 15. It made a reluctant hero of the late Capt. William "Bill" Bonnell of Fort Worth . . . .
Thanks to Kansas State Rep. Terri Lois Gregory for the link.
Related Posts
New paper: "Trust But Verify: Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy"I hope that a lot of people download this paper (available here). Here is the abstract of the paper:In a recent articl- Giving new meaning to other slang terms for breasts such as bazookas and bombshells as well as the term bra stuffingWatch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com&am
- Florida Governor Rick Scott shots down Tampa's mayor request to ban guns at Republican ConventionWell, if the city has already banned water guns from being near the Republican convention, I would think that would hav
- It turns out that liberal Democrats don't mind forcing states to adopt the laws that they likeI can understand laws against texting while driving, but state governments can pass these as well as the federal govern
- New Fox News piece: Should New York tourists have their lives destroyed because of concealed carry laws?My newest piece starts this way:Just a few days before Christmas, Meredith Graves made a mistake that could end her med
- Why carry concealed in national parks?Aren't parks safe? Why would anyone need to protect themselves? Surely this 65 year old man is glad that he had his p
Pilot using gun to stop hijacking
4/
5
Oleh
abudzar
