FromMyColdDeadHand
09-21-18, 15:37
....by polar bears.
https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/when-klm-kept-semi-automatic-rifles-onboard-to-defend-against-polar-bears.html
Believe it or not, there was a time in the not-so-distant history of commercial aviation when the possibility of a polar bear attack was considered among the more likely threats to passenger security. KLM even required a loaded AR-10 infantry rifle be kept onboard Anchorage, Alaska-bound flights in case crew members ever needed to fend off a hypercarnivorous beast.
According to Historical Firearms, however, the training didn’t actually involve firing the polar bear stopping weapon. Instead, crew members were told to “simply aim between an attacking polar bear’s shoulder blades.”
In a January 1984 letter from KLM to a gun collector tracing the provenance of the weapons purchased by the airline, a company official confirms that the airline purchased between five and six of the AR-10 rifles for use on the Polar Route flights. The airline noted that the guns were eventually sold to a Chicago gun dealer in the early 1970s.
My first thought was- only one? After a crash?
Fun fact, at least in Belgium, they call them 'Ice Bears', not polar bears.
http://www.historicalfirearms.info/post/124413155349/klms-arctic-ar-10-in-the-same-year-as-armalite
With some pics.
Chicks are hot.
Stewardesses are hotter.
Chicks with guns are hotter.
Stewardess with and AR10........ goes to 11...
https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/when-klm-kept-semi-automatic-rifles-onboard-to-defend-against-polar-bears.html
Believe it or not, there was a time in the not-so-distant history of commercial aviation when the possibility of a polar bear attack was considered among the more likely threats to passenger security. KLM even required a loaded AR-10 infantry rifle be kept onboard Anchorage, Alaska-bound flights in case crew members ever needed to fend off a hypercarnivorous beast.
According to Historical Firearms, however, the training didn’t actually involve firing the polar bear stopping weapon. Instead, crew members were told to “simply aim between an attacking polar bear’s shoulder blades.”
In a January 1984 letter from KLM to a gun collector tracing the provenance of the weapons purchased by the airline, a company official confirms that the airline purchased between five and six of the AR-10 rifles for use on the Polar Route flights. The airline noted that the guns were eventually sold to a Chicago gun dealer in the early 1970s.
My first thought was- only one? After a crash?
Fun fact, at least in Belgium, they call them 'Ice Bears', not polar bears.
http://www.historicalfirearms.info/post/124413155349/klms-arctic-ar-10-in-the-same-year-as-armalite
With some pics.
Chicks are hot.
Stewardesses are hotter.
Chicks with guns are hotter.
Stewardess with and AR10........ goes to 11...