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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Sand Pitt
Posts: 33
''Slightly off topic, but why would an airliner with a bomb threat be escorted by two figher jets? There is absolutely nothing they can do other than witness it going down if there really was a bomb.''
They could try to reduce the size of the pieces after the bomb explodes
(which would mean increasing their number of course!).
In the minds of NORAD tactical planners, if there was indeed a bomb onboard and if the airplane was directed by it's occupants to a populated area or vital strategic location, then there would be need to forcibly steer it away or shoot it down!