Fighter Jet Over South Manchester

[dan_bo]

Will he get billed for all this as well?

Fucking hope so. Tit.

 

[MCFCTrick]

I miss the days you could get on a plane without fear of it being shot down/blown up.

There are billions of more likely ways to die than by being blown up on a plane!

Yeah I know. But during the 90's I flew a lot and never had a worry about it as if it crashed that's the risk you take but now you also have to worry SOME RELIGIOUS nut job with a bomb up his arse.

But in all likelihood, only from one particular religion nowadays ....

 

[Anonymous]

Can hear a normal plane now.

 

[jimharri]

****! What a ****. Bloke arrested for making a hoax bomb threat.

What a fucking ****.

So; let me get this right. You're saying that you think the bloke is a ****, yes?

Sorry Jim.

Cannot believe some random **** has put all those people through that. Glad all are safe but that bloke deserves everything that will be coming to him.

No need to apologise. I actually agree with you!

 

[RandomJ]

Wtf did the guy who made the hoax think was going to happen the pilot coming out the cockpit to congratulate him on such great banter? Fucking idiot.

 

[chris85mcfc]

If you just want to blow up a jet you don't need to tell them there is a device. You just use it.
Claiming there is a device on board is a threat which is then used to do something else. That something else may be worse than blowing up the jet. A fighter escort gives the possibility of choosing the lesser of two evils. The guy on the trigger has a tough job but the guy making the decision has an even tougher one.

Who would make the final decision to blow up a plane with hundreds of civilians on it?

Has it ever happened?

Yes. The Russians shot down a Korean jet just for the suspicion it was spying! So far in this scenario it hasn't happened but I'm quite sure if it came to it, it would. Without doubt in the US or Israel and probably in the UK. If it didn't the first time it would the second.

So how is this decision actually made?

The fighter jet was circling the plane but what is it looking for before it makes the decision?

Must be hard to base a decision like that on what a pilot has said, especially at about 400mph!!!

I mean how would the fighter jet know if it was a legitimate bomb threat or a hoax?

 

[aguero93:20]

There are billions of more likely ways to die than by being blown up on a plane!

Yeah I know. But during the 90's I flew a lot and never had a worry about it as if it crashed that's the risk you take but now you also have to worry SOME RELIGIOUS nut job with a bomb up his arse.

But in all likelihood, only from one particular religion nowadays ....

Not really, terrorists still exist among all religious backgrounds, look at some of the shit going on in the far east.

 

[BlueBearBoots]

If you just want to blow up a jet you don't need to tell them there is a device. You just use it.
Claiming there is a device on board is a threat which is then used to do something else. That something else may be worse than blowing up the jet. A fighter escort gives the possibility of choosing the lesser of two evils. The guy on the trigger has a tough job but the guy making the decision has an even tougher one.

Who would make the final decision to blow up a plane with hundreds of civilians on it?

Has it ever happened?

Always thought there was a good chance the 9/11 plane aimed at the White house might have been shot down, it was the last one in the air.

yeah me too - the one that came down in Pennsylvania?

 

[aguero93:20]

Who would make the final decision to blow up a plane with hundreds of civilians on it?

Has it ever happened?

Yes. The Russians shot down a Korean jet just for the suspicion it was spying! So far in this scenario it hasn't happened but I'm quite sure if it came to it, it would. Without doubt in the US or Israel and probably in the UK. If it didn't the first time it would the second.

So how is this decision actually made?

The fighter jet was circling the plane but what is it looking for before it makes the decision?

Must be hard to base a decision like that on what a pilot has said, especially at about 400mph!!!

I mean how would the fighter jet know if it was a legitimate bomb threat or a hoax?

Probably more to do with whether the on board air marshal had the gobshite under control and what was under the plane at the time.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Have to praise the authorities. It was a hoax, but they seemed to handle it perfectly.