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3 CIS H 75115
TITLE: Arming Flight Crews Against Terrorist Acts

CIS-NO: 2003-H751-15  
SOURCE: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: May 2, 2002  
LENGTH: v+138 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1024-A-01; 1024-B-01  
SUDOC: Y4.T68/2:107-80  
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2003-10920  


SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-80. Hearing before the Subcom on Aviation to examine proposals to authorize the arming of airline pilots in order to deter terrorist hijackings, including proposals to provide pilots with non-lethal weapons instead of firearms.
 
Supplementary material (p. 46-138) includes witnesses' written statements, submitted statements and correspondence.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Airline pilots carrying weapons in cockpit

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON AVIATION. HOUSE;  AIR PIRACY; AIRCRAFT PILOTS; AIRLINES; AVIATION SECURITY; FIREARMS AND FIREARMS CONTROL; TERRORISM

03-H751-15 TESTIMONY NO: 1     May 2, 2002 p. 17-19, 46-57
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   HART, SARAH V. (Director, National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice)
 
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
   Overview of Justice Department efforts to develop non-lethal weapons for airline security purposes; views on efficacy of non-lethal weapons for airline security, with details on certain weapons.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Airline pilots carrying weapons in cockpit
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
 
03-H751-15 TESTIMONY NO: 2     May 2, 2002 p. 19-45, 62-86
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   LUCKEY, STEPHEN (Chairman, National Flight Security Committee, Air Line Pilots Association, International)
   KRAKOWSKI, HENRY P. (Vice President, Safety, Security Quality Assurance, United Airlines)
   HINDERBERGER, RONALD J. (Director, Aviation Safety, Boeing Co)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Support for proposals to provide pilots with firearms, citing continued threat of terrorism involving plane hijacking; recommendations to arm pilots with non-lethal tasers, which administer an incapacitating but reversible electrical shock, citing risks associated with firearm discharges on airplanes.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Airline pilots carrying weapons in cockpit
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION, INTERNATIONAL; BOEING CO.; UNITED AIRLINES

LOAD-DATE: May 19, 2004