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Anger at slow pace of arming commercial pilots.(snapshots)(Brief Article)
"We have an armed pilots program that's arming very few pilots." With fewer than 5,000 of the nation's 95,000 airline pilots trained and deputized by the Transportation
Security Administration to carry weapons ...
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