[bert]

-----I don’t know how any terror organization benefits from stealing an airplane and then waiting weeks, months, years to use it for nefarious purposes while the international world searches for it in earnest.------

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[FAA]

Works well for fiction and entertainment purposes but not for reality.

And that’s a big part of the deal here. Too many are ascribing fiction and movie plots to a scenario where glaring reality rule the day. We need it to be spectacular when it is not. We fill in the dark spots with our imagination. Whether or not it is realistic or plausible or likely it sates us.

[discostu]

Most plots that work in fiction don’t work in reality. Too many moving parts, too many complications, all of which make for wonderful suspense, but they don’t tend to make for plans that actually accomplish goals. Really if you’re a terrorist organization that wants a plane it’s quite simple: go to one of your rich benefactors, have them buy a plane from one of the many boneyards in the world preferably a non-American one with less paperwork, have them give you the plane, now do with it as you please quickly rendering it untraceable. Simple, straightforward, guaranteed successful, and horribly uninteresting as a plot for a book or movie.