Pilot Flushed Bullets On Flight

[Scout26]

Getting things like that ON the plane is hard part.  Getting them OFF the plane.  Not so much. 

Couldn't the pilot have simply kept them until he got away from the airport?  Last I checked, they don't do any type of security theater once you get off the plane.  They could have easily been disposed of "elsewhere^*".   





^*- Elsewhere being not the hotel room trash.   Germans are very, very fastidious when it comes to trash.  There are lots of trash cans all over the country where one could dispose of un-wanted materials while out on a evening stroll....

[just Warren]

Look at that huge pile of crap. But what's the thing on the wagon supposed to be?

[Fly320s]

Getting things like that ON the plane is hard part.  Getting them OFF the plane.  Not so much.  

Couldn't the pilot have simply kept them until he got away from the airport?  Last I checked, they don't do any type of security theater once you get off the plane.  They could have easily been disposed of "elsewhere^*".

Getting the ammo on is easy in the US. That pilot is probably an FFDO and almost certainly went through the Known Crewmember checkpoint. His bags were never searched.

There is a good chance that his bags would have been searched in Germany by the German immigration and customs officers. Better to try to dump the ammo on the plane than risk getting caught with it in Germany.

[KD5NRH]

Wouldn't the pilot know about twenty different places in the plane where a few cartridges could be hidden?

That was pretty much my thought; airplanes set up for comfort are full of nooks and crannies that even maintenance isn't going to check for a while.  By then, figuring out where a few rounds of ammo came from will be impossible unless they have some nice clean fingerprints on them.

[Hawkmoon]

I can't help thinking that, once the flight attendant "turned them over" to him, as captain, he would have been better off playing captain and dutifully turning them in to the German authorities when the plane landed. His cover story was pre-made, and there would be no need to explain why his fingerprints were on them.

[Sergeant Bob]

No.

To answer other questions:

Waste is not dumped in flight.

That differs from my recollection of the large blue spot in a canyon in Arizona in 1989! I know nothing!

[HankB]

I can't help thinking that, once the flight attendant "turned them over" to him, as captain, he would have been better off playing captain and dutifully turning them in to the German authorities when the plane landed. His cover story was pre-made, and there would be no need to explain why his fingerprints were on them.

Exactly - some unknown person put them in the trash, a good, law-abiding flight attendant turned them over to the captain, and the good, law-abiding captain promptly turned them over to the German authorities.