Federal air marshals are developing guidelines for a training program to help flight crews thwart a hijacker by using self-defense and other techniques, the nation's largest union of flight ...

Long before they ever set foot on an airplane, Federal Air Marshals begin their intensive training not far from Texas, only a short one-hour flight from Dallas-Fort Worth, at the Federal Law ...

"The mission of the Federal Air Marshal Service is to detect, deter and defeat any hostile acts targeting the nation's civil aviation," he said. NBC 6 was given an exclusive behind-the-scenes look ...

A federal air marshal draws his pistol and shoots both men. Threat over. The training exercise illustrates the protection that air marshals — who fly armed and undercover — could provide in ...

Dec. 8, 2005 — -- The air marshal who shot and killed a passenger who made a bomb threat reacted as trained, says a spokesman for the Federal Air Marshal Service.

Federal air marshals perform tactical training inside a retired Lockheed L-1011 wide-body plane. AP. ... they’re not going to say that our standard of training was too low.

The Federal Air Marshal Service, a crucial yet often unnoticed branch of law enforcement, is intensifying its training efforts in Las Vegas to ensure the safety of millions of travelers during the ...

Federal Air Marshal Service director responds to allegations the agency has ... Their mission is to keep an airliner from being used as a weapon and doing that requires highly specialized training.

After the 9/11 attacks, the federal government assembled a small army of undercover air marshals to protect U.S. flights and prevent similar hijackings.

In 2005, the Federal Air Marshal Service was hiring and I saw it as a great opportunity. I didn’t hear back from the agency for a little over two years; I just thought they forgot about me.