Re: World Trade Center

[MathesonT@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 9/12/2001 7:28:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
virtualpender@hotmail.com writes:


> > I _still_ don't see why they stopped putting Air Marshals on planes
>
> They haven't; there just aren't that many of them.  The FAA was actually 
> recruiting for the position sometime last year.  The job announcement was 
> on 
> the message boards at specialoperations.com and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson 
> (R-TX) confirmed on Fox News today that the program is still in place.  
> Hopefully this incident will result in a huge expansion of the sky marshal 
> program.


There are currently approximately 60 Air Marshalls in service and they are 
used almost exclusively on oversears flights to threat areas.

Rob