RE: Two Airlines Apply For Cockpit Guns .

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 24-01-03 AT 08:21 PM (GMT)]The law gets really vague when it comes to being onboard an airliner. When the American carriers are in the UK they are sort of catered for by both UK and US law even though they are on UK soil/tarmac. It is very complicated and I don’t fully understand it myself.
To give an example of the complication, there have been situations where a passenger has died on a transatlantic flight and a doctor has been called for (only a doctor can certify death). The doctors may have realised the passenger has died mid-atlantic but may not certify death until landed at the destination to ease the paperwork.