If theyre on route to crash the plane into a building, I highly doubt a "warning shot" is going to deter them. If anything, it would only increase the horror for the passengers.
If theyre on route to crash the plane into a building, I highly doubt a "warning shot" is going to deter them. If anything, it would only increase the horror for the passengers.
Of course. I have no sympathy for terrorists. I'd blow them out of the sky. In the end, you are saving more lives than you're taking. It's simple cost benefit analysis.
And Wesley Snipes peeks his head around the corner to remind them how they should bet in roulette (Hint: black)
yes.
anyone who could not or would not bring themselves to do it, should not be in the cockpit of a fighter.
anyone who could not or would not bring themselves to do it, should not be in the cockpit of a fighter.
Yes, if I was a fighter pilot in a modern army, I'd be completely brainwashed / trained to be a yes sir soldier with fast responses, and would certainly pull the trigger immediately after validating the order as per procedural requirements.
No, this would not be an effective deterrent, because terrorists are out to kill, and if you do that killing for them, that's fine too.
At best this would be damage reduction, say from the entire plane + something else to just the entire plane.
No, this would not be an effective deterrent, because terrorists are out to kill, and if you do that killing for them, that's fine too.
At best this would be damage reduction, say from the entire plane + something else to just the entire plane.
If I were also to be ordered to call the families of those on the plane, I wouldn't be able to follow the order.
IAteYourMother
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Then I would most likelies shoot the windows out of the cockpit and render the terrorists unconscious giving the passengers a chance to get at the controls of the the plane. This should disuade the passengers horrors.
???
Maybe I'm just missing something, but if you shoot the windows out of the cockpit wouldn't the crazy air-pressure differential make it pretty impossible to get to the controls?
is it even possible to shoot that accurately? probably the very best you could do is shoot up the entire cockpit section rendering it useless
in any case, I don't think a pilot has the luxury of choosing in such a situation. the ones giving the order would have a clearer view of the picture.
newParadigm
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The passengers would be rendered unconscious, and you're not exactly going to open your canopy (would render YOU unconscious), and perfectly aim a handgun into a window while flying at 600mph.
All we need is wireless remote controls and an override, and we don't have to discuss this stupidity.
I'd do it...1000's of lives versus hundreds. The decision to pull the trigger would be the easy part... watching the missle(s) hit the plane would be hard.
If you do that, the whole cabin would depressurize... further, the passengers would become incapacitated first because the O2 available in the quick-donning crew masks in the cockpit is provided under forced pressure. The dinky yellow-cup-and-bag masks are rebreathers and useless above ~25,000-30,000 feet anyway. At that ambient pressure altitude, it doesn't matter if you have O2 or not... you don't have the pressure available to get it pushed through to the blood stream. If you shoot the windows out, and don't hit the terrorists, and they are smart enough to put the O2 masks on... they'll be breathing just fine.
Of course... this whole premise negates the probability that, lacking windows, the cockpit would sink to -40 F and be exposed to oncoming winds of 500 mph, which can't possibly be a detriment!
Also this assumes the plane is at altitude when fired upon by out hypothetical fighter pilot.
I have given this much of my thoughts throught the last days and have comein up with a solutions. Your points are well theorized but are open to my imaginations.
A. We must persuade the terrorists to lower their altitudes before I can shoot out their cockpits windows. How to do this to unincorigible terrorists? Shoot holes in the wings until the area of the wing has less force that it will create a slow descension of the planes. You would have to make sure to create an equal force on each wing.
B. Once the alititudes have been lowered then I could shoot the windows and terrorists out of the cockpits.
3. I could then talk the passengers through landing the planes safely.
thats a pretty important test there bud.. you see Aircraft Anticollision lights are red and green... therefore you wouldnt be able to tell if that A/C was coming or going...
you cannot work on the flightline/flightdeck if youre color blind either..
and yes Having served in the USN I can tell you that I could and do as I was ordered to do.. they way they teach you to objectify things helps... therefore you're not killing people you're killing a machine piloted by someone that means to do harm..
nothing else at that point matters.
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