Originally Posted by
grimmrad
What about more explosiv stuff? Or even worse: some radioactive material or biological agents to be spread (or sprayed) from the plane?? No enough to kill probably - but can you imagine the panick of the people once it gets known (if it gets known but I am not going that way now)...
You could load anything you want, and do alot of damage potentially, but the fact is, unless they place SAM's atop every rooftop, and have itchy trigger fingers (leading to lots of accidently shot down aircraft) then nothing will stop a terrorist in the air.
The only place to stop them is on the ground, before they take off.
Fighters would take to long. Airspace restrictions (Total ban over the city) can't actually stop anything (its not a force field). Shoulder missles from troopies on the ground would end up shooting down to many friendlies and even if we did shoot them down, if they had biological or radiological agents, shooting them down would just spread it around the area outside of Manhattan, but still in a populated area.