WASHINGTON _ The US Airways captain whose gun discharged in the cockpit of a plane landing in Charlotte , N.C., was fired by the airline and removed from the program that allows pilots to be armed, federal safety officials said Thursday.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ The head of a congressional homeland security panel said Friday that a program to arm pilots should get more scrutiny after a US Airways captain's gun discharged last weekend during a flight to Charlotte. Rep.

By Jefferson George, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Mar. 28--The US Airways plane on which a pilot accidentally fired his gun Saturday -- piercing the fuselage -- has been repaired and is back in service, the airline said Thursday.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ The US Airways captain whose gun discharged in the cockpit of a Charlotte-bound flight Saturday is a former Air Force pilot who lives in Pittsburgh. The pilot, James Langenhahn, declined to discuss the shooting Thursday night.

To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORS Contact: Alan Gottlieb of Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, +1-425-454-4911 BELLEVUE, Wash., March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today is calling for an independent investigation of an in-flight discharge of a pistol carried by an armed U.S.