[DaGman]

This is an ongoing story from the last several months. This one had me going until this:

"At a closing speed of almost 900 miles, they would have no chance to avoid the flying bomb”, said international security expert Ted Gunderson in Washington."

According to GlobalAircraft.org cruising speed is 570 - 605 mph. 900 mph would tear the craft apart.

This story is serious enough. It doesn't need hysterical hype.

[steve86]

At a closing speed of almost 900 miles... 900 mph would tear the craft apart.

What is so hard to understand about closing speed?

450+450=900. 600+300=900. And so on.

Although I can't see the pilot actually intercepting the opposing plane head-on.

[SauronOfMordor]

cruising speed is 570 - 605 mph. 900 mph would tear the craft apart.

If plane A is going east at 450 mph, and B is going west at 450 mph, they are closing at 900 mph

[Brian Allen]

<< .... closing speed of almost 900 miles [Per Hour] >>

Closing speed is the sum of both aircraft speeds.

A closing speed far in excess of eleven hundred miles per hour is possible.

And the chance a couple of Teheran-"trained" barbarians in pilot costumes hitting anything at all at that speed, let alone something as small as another aircraft in controlled airspace?

Between no chance and a dog's chance.

Islamofascism's American-resident and Gray-out Davis's California-driver's-licence-bearing third-world savages have a better chance of walking past Norman Mineta's Scandanavian-grandmother-grabbing rent-a-gropers at Boston/Logan and of commandeering a California-bound American or United aircraft than they have pulling off the wild stunt envisaged in this piece!