Pilot tried to stow gun when it misfired
The US Airways pilot whose gun fired inside a cockpit last week told police he was trying to stow the gun when it went off. According to the Associated Press, The pilot didn’t tell air traffic control about the shooting or say the bullet had punctured the cockpit until after the plane landed safely at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport on Saturday. US Airways Tower Supervisor Nathan Gundlach told police that when he arrived the pilot was on the phone with the Transportation Security Administration. The AP reports that Gundlach contacted US Airways about the in-flight shooting, but police were not notified until an hour later. Experts interviewed by the AP said the pilot acted appropriately, following the fly first, communicate second protocol. “If something happens in the air that’s not an emergency that’s changed the course of action of the aircraft, the priority is to land the airplane,” said William Brogan, an aviation expert at Lewis University near Chicago. “It’s fly first, communicate second.”
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