naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 10 months agoAn airline passenger could face a $120,000 bill after fighter jets were scrambled when he joked about blowing up the planewww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down125
arrow-up176arrow-down1external-linkAn airline passenger could face a $120,000 bill after fighter jets were scrambled when he joked about blowing up the planewww.businessinsider.comnaturalgasbad@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 10 months agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squarecoffeebiscuit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·10 months agoSerious question: what would these fighter planes actually do in such situation?
minus-squareAidinthel@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·10 months agoI guess they could shoot the airliner down if it starts flying toward any towers.
minus-squareChozo@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·10 months agoThey’d get a really big megaphone and tell the pilot “Pull over!” jk, they’ll just fire a Sidewinder missile at it if it deviates from its flight path.
minus-squareTrollception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·10 months agoGuessing it gives them information on what is actually happening on the plane. If the pilots were being held against their will they could be following orders from a hijacker.
Serious question: what would these fighter planes actually do in such situation?
I guess they could shoot the airliner down if it starts flying toward any towers.
They’d get a really big megaphone and tell the pilot “Pull over!”
jk, they’ll just fire a Sidewinder missile at it if it deviates from its flight path.
Guessing it gives them information on what is actually happening on the plane. If the pilots were being held against their will they could be following orders from a hijacker.
Sounds logical.