• kautau@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    46
    ·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for sharing. That’s really interesting. Also, what a way to absolutely do great on your first day. Realize there’s a massive aerospace emergency, ground all flights without approval, because approval could mean the cost of more lives. Dude deserves some praise for what he did.

    • MDKAOD@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      Looking back at history, we’re there other flights as attack vectors that a ground stop prevented from executing their plan? Or was a ground stop, albeit the correct course of action, pointless in preventing anything because the plan had already been executed in full?

      • Land_Strider@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Even if there weren’t any planned attacks at the moment, the preventive and protective actions are usually done regardless of the temporary costs.

        Without going much political, I can say that move was one of the most critical ones, maybe right after preventing nuclear warfare, because I don’t want to think how much worse the American retaliation in the last 20 years would be if there was even one more kamikaze plane, especially considering that we now measure warcrimes in magnitudes of 9/11.