re: Hijack - Idris Elba - Apple TV

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Europe is allowing a hijacked airplane to fly through their airways w/out military escort? The different country's ATC don't communicate w/each other? The airline company wasn't involved when the pilot was unresponsive for an extended period.

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Out of all these criticisms, the only one that actually seemed way off to me was the fact that we have seen no involvement from the airline.

The first country they passed through that actually knew the plane had been hijacked was Romania, and they did in fact scramble fighters. At that point I don’t think the folks in the UK even knew for sure. The Brits convince the Romanians not to shoot the plane down which, IMO, is not exactly unbelievable. I think in reality the plane would likely continue to be tailed from a distance by fighters but it doesn’t really serve a purpose in the show.

Then when they get to Hungary, the Hungarians are trying to spring a trap on the runway. They know what’s going on but they also don’t want to tip off the hijackers.

I assume they are now over Germany so it will be interesting to see whether there’s any German reaction now that the hijacking is public knowledge.

As far as the communication between the different ATC’s - I feel like we’ve seen them communicate plenty.

Idk, I feel like the general chaos of the government response and CYA attitude among the politicians is a pretty major element of the show. It feels like they’ve known about the hijacking forever and have had plenty of time to coordinate a response, but it’s actually only been a couple of hours in their time.