[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.

[heterosupremacist]

CurlyDave wrote:
...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.

Yes, indeed they did! A related question: Why did kamikaze pilots ear helmets? JK

[heterosupremacist]

ear = wear helmets? JK