To quote from the original thread: “One man even said he feared for his life, thinking the plane was going down.”
If past experience is anything to go by, he should be good for at least 1.25 million dollars in compensation from AA for the anguish he suffered.
On a more serious note, if armed fighters are standing by to ‘slam the stable door behind the long ago bolted horse’ (as most of the increased security measures post-Sept 11th could be classified), surely it’s only a matter of time before an aircraft is ordered to be shot down over what could be nothing more than a misunderstanding?
To explain my ‘stable door/bolted horse’ analogy – are there really people out there who believe the next outrage these people carry out, (an almost certainly after the US bombing over the last two nights), will be a carbon-copy of the Sept 11th or even vaguely related to Aviation? My money is on something totally unrelated but designed more to put the fear of the Lord into America and cause maximum disruption as much as to do any actual damage.
Maybe people buying gas masks aren’t overreacting...