It’s been years since terrorists have blown up a plane — which suggests that terrorist organizations have been unable to recruit suicidal maniacs both willing to do such deeds and intelligent enough not to get caught in mid-flight with bombs in their shoes and underwear.
So maybe terrorist leaders have decided to try something new — such as bribing a pilot to secretly transport a passenger-filled plane to an obscure location. If the plane’s detection devices could be successfully disabled, the terrorists would then with up with a perfectly good plane at their disposal, a frightened world worried about hundreds of missing passengers, and a proven formula for carrying out similar operations in the future.
Is that so far-fetched?
“Is that so far-fetched?”
Sort of. The plane needs a mile long runway to land. How many “obscure locations” have mile long runways? The whole ‘terrorists stealing the plane’ scenario doesn’t really work in my mind.