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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They can and would if it seemed necessary. I think they’d prefer that to another 9/11. If the plane has really been hijacked by someone intending to use it in that way, the civilian passengers are going to die anyway, so it’s a matter of preventing further death.