Originally Posted by
vincentharris
With all the stories of officers boarding flights for whatever reason (remove someone, trouble on board, etc.) I dont recall (which means I can be wrong and there could be stories i never read) that nobody has pulled their firearm out on board. 99.999999999999999% of officers will only pull a firearm as an absolute LAST resort.
Air Marshals pointed guns at passenger cabin in flight for about half an hour after subduing an unruly passenger:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/NEWS/...ent/index.html
It seemed for a while that the SOP of Air Marshals was to hold the cabin at gunpoint for the remainder of the flight if their cover was exposed. The reports stopped, so hopefully policy changed.