{"id":1905,"date":"2008-03-26T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T14:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/26\/ooops-gun-goes-off-on-commerci\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T14:45:19","slug":"ooops-gun-goes-off-on-commerci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/ooops-gun-goes-off-on-commerci\/","title":{"rendered":"Ooops &#8230; gun goes off on commercial plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An investigation is underway into how a gun carried by a US Airways pilot was discharged during a flight.No-one was hurt when the gun went off as the plane was preparing to land at Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday.A hole in a cockpit wall apparently caused by the shot is visible in photos obtained by AP news agency.Under a programme implemented after the 9\/11 attacks, US airline pilots are allowed to carry guns on domestic flights following a training course&#8230;.The gun discharged just before noon on Saturday aboard Flight 1536 from Denver to Charlotte, as the Airbus A319 plane was at about 8,000 feet and was approaching to land. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7314668.stm\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway into how a gun carried by a US Airways pilot was discharged during a flight.No-one was hurt when the gun went off as the plane was preparing to land at Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday.A hole in a cockpit wall apparently caused by the shot is visible in photos obtained by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/ooops-gun-goes-off-on-commerci\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ooops &#8230; gun goes off on commercial plane<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-uJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}