Or he won’t because this is an old story that already has an acquittal: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68099669
Serious question: what would these fighter planes actually do in such situation?
They’d get a really big megaphone and tell the pilot “Pull over!”
jk, they’ll just fire a Sidewinder missile at it if it deviates from its flight path.
Guessing it gives them information on what is actually happening on the plane. If the pilots were being held against their will they could be following orders from a hijacker.
Sounds logical.
Good thing to know that private messages are fully monitored at all times
This is the best summary I could come up with:
An airline passenger who prompted the Spanish air force to scramble fighter jets after he said he was going to blow up the plane he was on appeared Monday in court, the BBC reported.
Aditya Verma was 18 when he and his friends traveled with easyJet from London Gatwick Airport to the Spanish island of Menorca in July 2022.
The BBC reported that before departing, he told a friend on Snapchat: “On my way to blow up the plane (I’m a member of the Taliban).”
Security services saw the message and flagged it to Spanish authorities, who sent two F-18 jets to follow the airliner until it landed, per the BBC.
According to The Telegraph, Verma told the court he first thought the jets were flanking the plane as part of a military exercise related to the Russia-Ukraine war.
Verma’s lawyer told the court it was a “bad joke” but emphasized it was one made in private with friends.
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How did they know the message came from him? Profile pic? Seems pretty work intensive (if it’s even possible) to connect a UUID to an IP address and search everyone’s phone for their UUID.
