Local Airline Terror Training
Posted by airlinenews on November 4, 2006
Keeping the skies safe for airline passengers and flight crews was a top priority at a training session in Delaware County.
Veteran flight attendants and pilots were taught the moves designed to put down a threat on a commercial airliner and possibly save lives.
Former Pennsylvania State Trooper Glenn Daly schooled the airline employees in advanced self defense moves, threat recognition and how to subdue an on-board attacker.
The post 9/11 training is set up by the Transportation Security Administration and the Air Marshals program.
It’s being offered to more than 200,000 airline employees across the country like flight attendant Carol Pond.
“I wanna feel comfortable on the aircraft that I’m able to stop something if it were to start happening,” said Pond.
Eight-hour self defense classes are offered in eleven cities across the country.
