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by hartleybrody 1858 days ago
Pilot was told their flight was being diverted due to a suspected bomb on board. What "game of chicken" would make a pilot doubt that instruction and chose to keep flying, given what the information they were being presented at the time?

It's not like they called to the plane and said "we'd like to kidnap a passenger, please land" and the pilot went along with it.
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tgsovlerkhgsel 1858 days ago
The game of chicken was "divert to an airport that's further away than your intended destination or we will shoot you down". What would make the pilot doubt the instruction would be the fact that the diversion airport was significantly further away: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/0...
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SideburnsOfDoom 1857 days ago
The game of chicken was ... to obey the request of the ATC of the airspace that the aircraft was in. It's _normal_ to do that.
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