Guns, Handcuffs and John and Martha King

Editorial Staff

Monday, August 30, 2010 at 12:00 AM ET

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Aviation instructors John and Martha King were mistakenly detained at Santa Barbara Airport, subjected to having guns drawn on them and being handcuffed.
The incident, which lasted about 30 minutes, was a case of bizarre mistaken identity.
Martha King recounted the ordeal in an AVweb podcast, sharing lessons from the event and emphasizing that similar situations could happen to any pilot.

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Think it can’t happen to you? John and Martha King (of King Schools) beg to differ. Aviation’s best-known couple were the subject of a bizarre case of mistaken identity on Aug. 28 that resulted in them having guns drawn on them, being handcuffed and held for about 30 minutes. As always, there are lessons to be learned from Martha King as she goes through the bizarre event at the Santa Barbara Airport in this unedited and, at 15 minutes, longer-than-usual AVweb podcast.

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