The actions of Chesley Sullenberger in saving the lives of passengers on US Airways flight 1546 are exemplary, and he has earned the gratitude of everyone aboard. (Why the writer would propose to waste such a talented individual and make him "the front runner to replace Hillary Clinton as New York’s junior United States Senator" is beyond me.) He has also earned the gratitude of citizens in the city where people have learned to look to the airplanes in the sky with fear, a fear that arose because static Federal bureaucratic policies proscribed arming pilots and prescribed disarming passengers, leading … Continue reading Another Airliner Downed by Federal Policy