[DieHard the Hunter]

> How did Mr. Kucharek know that Yavuz Berke wouldn’t toss something out of the window of that stolen plane? He was right over the bread basket of this country. A little something in powder form would have wiped out a goodly chunk of livestock and people. How did they KNOW he didn’t have that capability?

How can they be so sure that he didn’t? Foot-and-Mouth Disease is notoriously easy to transmit to any hoofed cattle, it is highly contagious and could do deep, long-lasting harm to America’s livestock industries. Just ask Britain.

[stillafreemind]

Bingo!

[bgill]

And if he’d really wanted to go out in a blase of glory, he could have crashed into an elementary school while the F16s were picking their noses.

[Lucky Dog]

How did Mr. Kucharek know that Yavuz Berke wouldn’t toss something out of the window of that stolen plane?

If you think throwing something out of the window would have dispersed some toxin or bio-agent, how much more would have an explosion from the aircraft fuel tank hit by a missile warhead or 20 mm rounds have dispersed it?

Just as an aside, the cost of one AIM 9 would buy several of those Cessna's. Therefore, it shooting it down could have potentially done as much damage as not, and wasted thousands of taxpayer dollars in the process, why bother?

[puppypusher]

If that were the case then the biological material would have been dispersed upon impact with the ground. Either way the terrorist could have accomplished his mission. By the way.Imagine what those twenty millimeter High explosive incindiary rounds would have done to innocents on the ground if they went though the target or the pilot missed. The Public would be screaming that the Air Force was trigger happy and didn't think the incident through and make the right decision.