[heterosupremacist]

WHAAA?? The idea of terrorist using an airliner as a weapon goes back to a Tom Clancy novel.

Thanks a lot, Tommy...

[marktwain]

Yes, it was Debt of Honor.

It was Clancy’s way of having his protagonist become President.

Clancy would have been a Trump supporter, I think.

[31R1O]

Stephen King used that plot device as well in The Running Man.

[South Dakota]

Kirt Russell
Executive Decision???
Terrorist attack using a jet...

[atomic_dog]

It actually predates Clancy. It was in the Book The Running Man written by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982. It was later made into a film of the same name where the hero (Schwarzenegger) lived and did not crash the plane.

[CurlyDave]

...The idea of terrorist using an airliner as a weapon goes back to a Tom Clancy novel...

The idea is older than that. In WWII Japanese kamikaze pilots deliberately crashed into US warships with some regularity.