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Re:Drone Maker Accused of Covering Up Bomb in Bag on Delta F... by fosk on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:31PM (#17094685)
> US Air marshals (armed cops who sit on every aircraft secretly with plain-clothes)

Do they really sit on every flight?

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Re:Drone Maker Accused of Covering Up Bomb in Bag on Delta F... by Tushon on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:35PM (#17094721)
No, just on the basic numbers we have available, it would not be possible.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/13264/are-air-m...

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Re:Drone Maker Accused of Covering Up Bomb in Bag on Delta F... by matwood on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:52PM (#17094924)
No, but I had one sit next to me on a flight to Vegas once. It's a long story, first how we suspected and then when he admitted it as we got off the plane. They do exist though.
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Re:Drone Maker Accused of Covering Up Bomb in Bag on Delta F... by freeopinion on Thursday May 17, 2018 @05:51PM (#17096301)
Oh, well, if he admitted it, then he must have been a real marshall.
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Re:Drone Maker Accused of Covering Up Bomb in Bag on Delta F... by bonzini on Thursday May 17, 2018 @04:10PM (#17095140)
How did you suspect?... (And, who's the other person in the plural?)
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Re:Drone Maker Accused of Covering Up Bomb in Bag on Delta F... by matwood on Saturday May 19, 2018 @11:04AM (#17108149)
Some friends and I were on the way to Vegas. We had a few drinks and I guess hit the limit they serve on a flight. We had been having a conversation with a guy next to us about small talk things, joking, wharever. This guy then looks at the stewardess and says “they’re fine, and there is no need to cut them off”. She then kept bringing drinks until we landed. At that point we started joking he was an air marshall, and he laughed it off.

Once we got in the terminal he kinda flashed his ankle holster and told us to have fun on our vacation. Also mentioned something along the lines that we had made a normally boring 5 hour flight entertaining.

I should add this was 10+ years ago.

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Re:Drone Maker Accused of Covering Up Bomb in Bag on Delta F... by wise0wl on Thursday May 17, 2018 @05:17PM (#17095955)
The sky-marshal-starter-pack, of course: https://i.redd.it/w67t4ogdmx8y.jpg
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Re:Drone Maker Accused of Covering Up Bomb in Bag on Delta F... by Someone1234 on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:47PM (#17094853)
Nope, but I've had one sit next to me before on a US bound international flight (in 2005 ish). So they definitely exist.
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Re:Drone Maker Accused of Covering Up Bomb in Bag on Delta F... by globuous on Thursday May 17, 2018 @04:02PM (#17095031)
Interesting ! So they are also on international flights going to the us ! How about outbound international flights where the jet is full of fuel over the US ?

Btw, how did you recognize he was a FAM ?

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Re:Drone Maker Accused of Covering Up Bomb in Bag on Delta F... by Rebelgecko on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:38PM (#17094749)
No. The percentage of flights with air marshals is in the low single digits.
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Re:Drone Maker Accused of Covering Up Bomb in Bag on Delta F... by knz on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:59PM (#17095005)
Which makes sense. A JFK to AMS flight is probably a much higher risk for terrorism than say FSD to MOT.
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Re:Drone Maker Accused of Covering Up Bomb in Bag on Delta F... by Rebelgecko on Thursday May 17, 2018 @04:08PM (#17095115)
According to the article I read, they're actually less common on flights out of NY and Washington DC- there were pilots complaining that they hadn't seen an air marshal in 6+ months. It sounds like they avoid putting marshals on flights that have other law enforcement officers on them, which is going to be a good chunk of the domestic flights to/from big cities
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