[blam]

" The planes as flying bombs and the lasers into the cockpit are both plot lines out of Clancy novels."

Debt Of Honor, what is the other?

[LenS]

Actually, both scenarios come from that book. Besides the JAL pilot suiciding into the Capitol Building at the end of the book, the two CIA agents use a powerful strobe light (I don't think it was a laser) to blind the flight crews of Japanese Air Defense Force AWACS during landings/takeoffs, thereby causing them to crash. They also the light weapon in the beginning of the book to help kill a Clancy equivalent of Somalia's Aidid.

[ModelBreaker]

Debt Of Honor, what is the other?

Both are from Debt of Honor. Special Forces infiltrate Japan and bring down one of their 747's with a radar dome by shining a laser into the eyes of the pilots when it is landing.