Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

NOTE: use Perl; is on undef hiatus. You can read content, but you can't post it. More info will be forthcoming forthcomingly.

use Perl

All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

Fear is the mother of violence More | Login | Reply

The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to use the classic discussion system instead. If you login, you can remember this preference.

Bullets in planes (Score:1)

by Fletch (75) on 2002.05.29 13:21 (#8910) Homepage Journal

(As a side note, wouldn't firing a gun in a plane be a Bad Thing? You know, that whole "pressured cabin"-thing and all.)

Actually, it's not. At least it's not a suck-the-supervillan-out-the-window-a-la-Goldfinger bad thing. Anectdotal (can't find the URL right now) but I read something on this the other day with a comment from a spokesman from Boeing that one or two handgun bullet holes wouldn't be sufficient alone to cause problems (other than those masks dropping from the ceiling, presumably).

Also there's special bullets (`frangible', I believe is the term) which are specifically made for use in airplanes (hard enough to penetrate a person, but not the fuselage skin). Presumably this is what the already armed air marshals are equipped with; if it's safe enough for them . . .

Reply to This

Get More Comments

Stories, comments, journals, and other submissions on use Perl; are Copyright 1998-2006, their respective owners.