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To: BurbankKarl
Do we know that this isn't just one of those "exercises" that the Air Force practices on commercial airliners?

-PJ

181 posted on 12/30/2003 4:25:12 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's not safe yet to vote Democrat.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Just spoke to this to someone online and he said "exercise evidentally, pilots do occasionally volunteer for practice intercepts".
193 posted on 12/30/2003 4:26:41 PM PST by maquiladora
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To: Political Junkie Too
Do we know that this isn't just one of those "exercises" that the Air Force practices on commercial airliners?

Dunno. Do we normally scramble our fighters to intercept commercial airliners flying over other nations (Canada)?

212 posted on 12/30/2003 4:33:53 PM PST by Prime Choice (Americans are a spiritual people. We're happy to help members of al Qaeda meet God.)
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