Re: Grounded F-15's

J,

It doesn't make sense given that there were phone conversations attesting
to the fact that the plane was indeed hijacked as shooting it down would
have been a good idea

Admitting it would definately not have been an option for the Pentagon I
worked in, or for the Government they worked for. Military solutions are not
applied to civilian assets in the public eye, before or after the fact.

Were you even a co-pilot of a tactical fighter, you might get further with
some of that reasoning, but would probably land yourself a lenghty stint in
Leavenworth.

Even the pilot of civilian piston-engine carries little wight with me. The
rules are vastly different.

Allan

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True civility is when every one gives to every other one every right
that they claim for themselves.

"Janice" <noway@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Allan Smith wrote:
J,

Thanks, I'd seen that in various forms and versions, but I still cannot
entirely dismiss the possibility.



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