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BigmanPigman

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19. I was really impressed by the 2 pilots

Reply to electric_blue68 (Reply #18)

Mon Jun 1, 2026, 07:56 PM

6 hrs ago

who were called upon to find and stop the 4th plane from crashing. Since it was happening really quickly there wasn't time to do the usual procedures before taking off. There wasn't even time to load missiles onto their 2 planes so their own planes would be used as missiles to take down the hijacked aircraft. They spoke afterwards and said that they knew it would be a suicide mission as one plane would fly into the front of the plane and the other pilot would hit the rear. The hijacked plane crashed before they were able to do this.

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