Lol you’re comparing a guy who flew for 7 minutes and only over his airfield to flying a commercial jet into commercial airspace while ignoring the FAA?
His airfield? What the fuck are you taking about?
He took off from SEATAC, a class B airspace and they tried to convince him to land at another airport. He was not shot down cause he posed no imminent threat.
He was not shot down because he killed himself, idiot. I can promise you that if, instead of crashing, he flew towards San Francisco, he would have eventually been shot down
Also:
After the aircraft took off, two F-15 fighter jets were deployed.
If he had wanted to land, they would have helped Him do so. You are now moving the goal post. The guy took off from a faa regulated airport, he flew in FAA regulated airspace, he disobeyed all sorts of orders and faa regulations, all sorts of orders, and he was not shot down like you suggested. He was intercepted and allowed to fly for several minutes performing aerobatics in violation of faa rules and was not shot down. All in controlled airspace.
They intercepted him, but unless he made maneuvers to threaten imminent serious injury or death, he would not be shot down.
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