How many flights have air marshals

I mostly flew the Eastern Shuttle between Washington and New York and we carried a lot of famous people who were under Secret Service or State Department protection—so those folks made armed guards common.

Armed guards were also common because we carried billions of dollars in cash. You can imagine that with fresh cash being printed in D. And with us leaving every hour, on the hour, they knew we could get it to New York City while the ink was still wet. These days, with so many of our financial transactions being processed electronically, there's probably not nearly as much cash that's being moved between the two cities. In addition to being introduced to the armed agent, we were also told how much money was in the hold.

You were over the ocean for much of the flight but there were diversion airports within two hours if necessary. Iceland and the Azores are frequently used as diversion alternates. Having both engines fail is extraordinarily rare. I only am aware of one such instance.

There were problems determining what was happening, resulting in all the fuel in the airplane being burned or escaping through a hole in a high-pressure fuel line.

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