Only 1% of flights have air marshals

CNN

Of the 28,000 commercial airline flights that take to the skies on an average day in the United States, fewer than 1 percent are protected by on-board, armed federal air marshals, a nationwide CNN investigation has found.rnart.marshal.file.afp.gi.jpgrnrnAn air marshal, far left, trains during a simulated hijacking days after the 9/11 attacks.rnrnThat means that a terrorist or other criminal bent on taking over an aircraft would be confronted by a trained air marshal on as few as 280 daily flights, according to more than a dozen federal air marshals and pilots interviewed by CNN.