‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’ - POLITICO Magazine Oral history of the events of 9/11. Odd that the USAF doesn’t seem to have the equivalent of the RAF’s QRA fighters (although there’s clearly a lot more country to cover).
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The Sad Futility of Trying to Stop Planes Crashing | VICE | United Kingdom “There’s a rule of thumb when you’re designing a complicated system, which says that when you get to a point where you’re applying fixes to fixes it may be time to step back and reconsider the whole thing.”
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