mackemsuffa
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I heard this today about the RAF scrambling a jet to intercept an Easyjet flight that had a bomb scare. The plan was to intercept the flight, in all seriousness what can the RAF jet actually achieve?
Scrambling A Jet
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Napoleon Dynamite
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Shoot it
dangermows
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A downed bomb carrying plane, resulting in people/a place not getting bombed.
heroesof73
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Got to be easier than poaching one
mackemsuffa
Central Defender
And kill everyone on board?
dangermows
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Aye. That's the deal. What did you think they do like?
Napoleon Dynamite
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That or another 9/11 ?
Scorer
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This basically, if it was going to be used as a terrorist weapon potentially killing thousands they’d bring it down.
dangermows
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I think he's been on the bombs.
Redandwhitedust
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I was once told that they do this ilto encourage the pilot to follow them to a suitably equipped airport (where a few lads from Hereford will have a welcome party). Though that was in the days of Dan Air so it might be different now.
Also having eyes on the aircraft and its movements (or movements of people on board) in real time is useful
Also having eyes on the aircraft and its movements (or movements of people on board) in real time is useful
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black-cat
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Hardly rocket science like
OOOSH YEAH
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Always hate it how they are absolutely desperate to say a jet was ‘scrambled’ does my head in. No need for it.
dangermows
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Now they take them over Barnard Castle to test their vision.
Horatio Pugwash
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Why?
citybythesea
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the Air Force will shoot the plane down rather than have an incident like 9/11
OOOSH YEAH
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Not 100% certain why but it annoys me. People seem to love saying it.
You need to add milk
Arfa Sleep
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Because that's what they're doing.
Bit pepper too
SAFC 2012
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As opposed to letting it crash into a packed city centre..... Killing everyone on board and potentially thousands more?
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