Gotta go with jgoins (BTW, really like your handle dude, straight outta one of my favorite movies , a decision to shoot down an airliner filled with innocent passengers has never been done over American airspace, nor do I feel as if it would have even seemed justifiable to the bulk of society over ideas that it "might" have been used as a weapon as occured on 9-11. And .... with as many planes constantly in our skies, even given the circumstances of that mornings events, a bigger question would have been where to start with such a gahstly chore?

No matter who had made such a call, had such an act been perpetrated, the perpetrator themself would have been skewered for having made such a choice if only for the slight possibilty that the passengers or crew could have regained command of the plane and changed the outcome. Honestly, had this option been exercised, the issuer of such a command would have been eventually jailed for mass murder.

Though planes had been hijacked previously, I never heard of any set of standing orders regarding such a circumstance to shoot down a plane under command by a foreign group so it's hard to imagine anyone feeling as there's blame that such a thing didn't occur on that morning.


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