Fighters scramble in miami

[Hjaldar]

As a German fighter pilot once said to this topic: "That's a damn heavy box [the plane] going down then". Shooting down a plane somewhere over the desert may be useful, but there are no "unpopulated" places here in Middle Europe...

[Placebo]

Please look before you leap (post)

Moving to OT.

[theavonlady]

Please look before you leap (post)

Well, it just gives ya something to do.

[Winters]

Ha Ha Ha

Thats just too funny, whats next a full alert because of crying babies?

I wonder what would happen if i started playing OFP on my laptop and booted up the fierce firefight in "We Stand Alone, Together" right in the middle of JFK airport

[Mr Burns]

Fit....usually means an epilleptic attack of some kind, but basically it is a loss of control. However, "throw a fit" usually means getting angry...

lol ... that makes it even funnier. actually i thought she really threw something at the plane .. but this´s just ridiculous

[theavonlady]

Ha Ha Ha

Thats just too funny, whats next a full alert because of crying babies?

I wonder what would happen if i started playing OFP on my laptop and booted up the fierce firefight in "We Stand Alone, Together" right in the middle of JFK airport *** *** ***

*cough*

[Winters]

@ Avon:

Ha, thats funny. i thought it sounded familiar as i typed it.

[FSPilot]

What good can a fighter jet do if someone is going to blow up the plane? Shoot it down?

Ha! Exactly! This is just beyond ridiculous.

Well, it's a simple concept. ***If the terrorist wanted to blow up an airliner, they'd do it instead of making a scene and giving everybody a warning. ***So it's a much bigger probability that they're going to hijack the airliner instead of just blowing it up.
Either way, 100+ people would of died. ***But more would of died if the fighter pilots had waited for the terrorists to ram a building with the airliner.

[denoir]

Hijackings of planes are not usually about blowing the plane up. Normally the hijacker issues some demand ("fly me to Cuba") and threatens to execute the passengers one by one unless his demands are met.

Worst case scenario: he kills a couple of hostages and then gets killed by the police when the plane lands.

So shooting down a plane with 100+ hostages to prevent a guy from flying to a tropical paradise might not be such a good idea.

It's understandable however that after the WTC attacks people are a bit jumpy when it comes to hijacked airplanes. From an objective point of view however and by looking at the history of hijacking in the world it's fairly certain to say that hijackers don't tend to fly planes into buildings and most are not suicidal.

[The Frenchman]

Quote[/b] ]Worst case scenario: he kills a couple of hostages and then gets killed by the police when the plane lands.

I belive worst case scenario would be if it killed the 100 passengers by crashing it or somthing else like that.

(BTW, Long time no see FS )