How do you force a passenger plane down, they can’t just shoot a civilian aircraft if the pilots refuse?

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How do you force a passenger plane down, they can’t just shoot a civilian aircraft if the pilots refuse?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

First off you tell them there is a bomb onboard which makes the pilots fairly compliant. Then you fly a fighter jet right up to the cockpit and give them a close view of the missiles that your plane is armed with and tell them that you are from a country who has a soviet style “elected” dictator in charge who has no qualms about killing anyone.

Anonymous 0 Comments

They CAN shoot the plane down. Sure, it would suck for the hostages onboard but I’m sure in a post 9/11 world, it’s preferable to losing even more lives. An airborne passenger plane is a potential missile.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Actually they can, wikipedia lists 39 cases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_incidents

Anonymous 0 Comments

Oh, they certainly can shoot the plane down.

When you fly over the sovereign territory of Country B, you have to do what the government says or the Air Force of B will be permitted to shoot you down.

There are international agreements to regulate this, and some countries have violated the rules and been sanctioned for it.

Anonymous 0 Comments

>they can’t just shoot a civilian aircraft if the pilots refuse

Oh sweet summer child. Power can do anything power wants unless there’s an equal or greater power compelling it to do otherwise. In fact, you can shoot down civilian aircraft [FLYING OVER OTHER COUNTRIES](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines_Flight_752), and if your military isn’t strong enough to tell them otherwise, tough shit.

Force is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived.

Anonymous 0 Comments

they absolutely can and will shoot an airliner down if its deemed necessary, especially in the post 9/11 world, all sovereign nations have regulations regarding which aircraft can exist in their airspace and violating these rules will get you sanctions at 1st but if ignored you are given free reign to defend your air space as per military procedure, this is the time where you’ll see interceptors being deployed for final warning/escort(close range radio comms) followed by a takedown if authorized and non compliant. skipping this procedure however can be seen as a act of war if proven to have been malicious.

this is also why spy missions performed by aircraft are done with “Stealth”/unmanned crafts and at VERY high altitudes in order ot dodge Radar detection and as a loophole of “airspace”.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Specifically in this case, they called in a bomb threat. Which gives them justification to send up an “escort” fighter jet to ensure the “safety” of all the passengers on board and force the plane down. In other words, they lie in such a way that the airline can’t afford to refuse.

Anonymous 0 Comments

That actually is what they would do. They’d attempt radio and signals first to order it down of course. Maybe even a burst across the bow. But end of the day if the order is to force the plane down the only way to do so is to shoot it down, and they would

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Anonymous 0 Comments

The pilots are bound to follow laws and the ramifications are huge at that level. You’re not getting sued. The country’s Attorney General is coming after you.

The whole flight crew would lose their livelihood for sure.