Arizona Tribune

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Daily News-$utI • Friday, Oct. 19,2001

Valley firm hopes to arm airline flight crews with tasers
!oksa Nr Group plans to

arm Its pikQ wllh .am~.

mak!llI It the lnt domesdc
CJllmDIeIdaI carner to ISSUe
sdr·defenK weapons for
cabin cmnI. tM Pboc!Jll<.
hued

company said

lbW"Sdly.
The company hu been
wurklng with lhl: Federal Avl·
atlon Admlnl.strallon since
lam mQnth's lerrortst attacks
to estabUsh storage alid 1Ian·

dUng pNmIurn. rompany
spokc:a"""""" Benet WIlson

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Altllou&h

the FAA hun't
~ the IlK ~tbe CUM.
WIlaon Aid the ccmpany will

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'ibere", IdII no ~
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wu- said Jbt didn't how
mudl It would toSt the cernpan)' to pnMdt ftaJlOllS for
. eacIl cocItplt and lmJn Its
pIIoU. The company p1anl to
lnsla1l the stun guns In lUI
enure fleer of 166 plan"".
One potenUal supp"er of
the stun guns Is Scolt!ldalebased Taser Internallonal,

wtllctl said II has been COII-

t.lCled by K'leral a1rUn""
slra the Sept. ! 1

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!he alrtInes
be has spoken to. but he said
his CIlIllJ*l)' has been In discUS.tonl ...\lb Meu Air
Group 10 proyld. Ibe

Ad Smith 01 laser Internalional shows i stun guJllhal could be used on ~

~ said the onIrr could

America Wut AlrUnu

be wonb •• much II
'100.000 to '150,000.
"HoIr ... r\eW It 15 lha1 It
will dcftnltely be .. slgnIfIc:mJ:

onkr. ~Iess of the stz1:

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atoPPed short of 5IJlIlI

woUid allow stun ~

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