Originally Posted by
sf25
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Assuming a positive identification of the situation can we seriously envision shooting down a fully loaded passenger aircraft over continental Europe?
In extremis and for the sake of public consumption I'd suggest the answer has to be yes...
No, the answer HAS to be NO! ... at least in Germany (and we´re talking about Germany) the constitutional court has administered that it is against human dignity, to count up the lives of those on board against those of a potentially endangered public (no matter what the ratio of numbers is).
I doubt you would be say that if 4 Lufthansa airplanes had been taken over and sent into Berlin...