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Armed-Pilot Program Rules Concern Aviators.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
By Bryon Okada, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 13--Pilots' organizations say the Transportation Security Administration's handling of a new armed-pilot program raises grave concerns, and one group is demanding the removal of a TSA attorney from negotiations.
The TSA has until Feb. 25 to have the armed-pilot program in place.
But some pilots say the regulations to be imposed by the TSA are restrictive and personally intrusive. The spirit of the Homeland Security Act, passed by Congress in 2002, was to establish a large, inclusive program with hundreds of armed pilot-officers, pilots say.
"Now we have people within the government trying to put such restrictive rules and requirements on...
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