For the bulls, too.
United 93 would have been, if the passengers had not forced it down first. Two F-16s were airborne and on the way to intercept it. They had no missiles, but were prepared to take it down by flying into it.
After a few years at the local Taco Timbre, he might earn enough in tips to pay for a rubber raft to get his ass to Barcelona.
Good grief!
“We don’t train to ‘take down’ airliners. We never have,” Sasseville said. “We didn’t have any missiles and we didn’t have combat loads of bullets. We were going to have to hit the airplane and disable it somehow.”
I’m hoping they have some kind of armaments now. It seems preferable to the cost of a jet fighter, let alone the cost of a human life.
A top Belarusian military leader threatens war with Poland.
Hey, it worked for Orr in Catch-22 – he made it all the way to Sweden.
The article reads like they had them, but didn’t dare take the time to load them.
I can think of a half-dozen ways a couple of F-16s could take down a barely piloted passenger jet without ramming it.
Fair enough, Orr did not particularly want to fly anymore either.
Without “ramming” it, sure. But they would need to make some kind of physical contact, and if it were close to its target, there might be little time to finesse it. The pilots clearly thought they might not be coming back.
I don’t blame them one bit. I’m sure the alternates would be thought of and tried before things got down to going all Ben-Hur on it. Just pointing out that the people flying that plane weren’t what you would call highly trained. Make them panic and get out of the envelope and they’ll crater right quickly.
I see what you did there.
Utah ComicCon founder arrested for multiple bomb threats
In separate emails BRANDENBURG wrote among other things:
a. 6:59 AM = “Thanks for finally sending my Divorce decision. You can still f-ck the f-ck off.”
b. 7:08 AM = “We’re still going to bomb the 3rd District Courthouse. Hae a nice day.”
c. 7:26 AM = “Now we’re going to bomb the State Capital….” d. 7:28 AM “And then…. We’ll bomb the mayor’s office…” e. 7:34 AM = “And then, we’re going to level the sacred temple…” f. 7:37 AM = “And then…. We’ll level the Rockefeller Center in NYC…”
g, 8:00 AM = “And NOW… WE’RE BOMBING EVERY IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL, STARTING WITH MIT, YALE, AND HAAARRRVVVVARDDDD…”
h. 8:38 AM = “We’re bombing the Federal Couthouse in San Diego to teach them a lesson…”
That kinda blew up in his face.
Man lights firework on his head and it explodes into his skull.
Lucky for him, nothing important was damaged.
Jeez, how many bombs does this guy have?
And MIT is not in the Ivy League.
but, FREEDOM OF SPEECH!
Just a pleasant afternoon - RUN!!!
He needs to go away just for spelling.