Excuse me if this has been mentioned before, but in one of his novels Tom Clancy mentions an airliner being brought down by a military Pilot Incapacitation L@ser. ( these things were fitted on some RN warships in the Falklands War, but the official line is that they never saw use ).
PIL's are against the Geneva Convention and supposedly binned now; though if I was on a ship under attack I for one would use anything.
Fantasy on Clancy's part ?
This is the author who foresaw using a hijacked airliner as a kamikaze weapon some years before 9/11...
It amazes me this subject isn't taken more seriously, I suspect a lot of it is about not putting off SLF, or indeed giving idiots ideas.