What if Al qaida wanted to steal a commercial aircraft?
How would you go about it?
reminds me of a Tom Clancy novel, about a Japanese who commandeers a 747 and crashes it into Congress I think it was.
And that was WW2 internment revenge.
What if the plane has landed, all passengers removed, plane is filled with HE and then is flown directly into an American target, an airbase, carrier etc.
Or better yet, an old Glenn Ford movie,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_in_Byzantium
From An Evening in Byzantium:
Meanwhile the terrorists have secretly taken control of three airliners and have landed them on remote and desolate airfields that have been prepared in advance to off load and imprison the airliners’ passengers and then quickly retrofit the planes to each transport and drop a nuclear bomb on three cities in the United States. These cities are Washington, DC, New York City, and Miami, FL. Bombs have been planted on three flying commercial airliners and set to detonate in flight so the terrorist controlled jets can impersonate the legitimate commercial flights.
Wear a burka and sail through TSA.
You would cut all communications, dive to below radar detection and dump some fuel to make a couple of oil slicks and continue at low altitudes to avoid radar to your destination at some remote and friendly landing strip.
What if Al qaida wanted to steal a commercial aircraft?
How would you go about it?
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I’d call one of my sheik friends in the Saud kingdom and just take one of their personal 767’s or 747’s ... they can report it stolen when they notice next month...
First, you would make sure the plane has a mohammaden pilot and copilot...
I was thinking of this possibility yesterday. But it doesn’t seem reasonable because in today’s post-9/11 world, any plane flying without a transponder will be shot down. The terrorists have to know this.